The Costa Sun (2016)



from the hills of the Magreb
to the deserts of mean Yanbu
we never dreaded the heat
nor troubled with the meat.
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Submitted on April 21, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 108
Words 22
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

Doug Hall

Even though I was given a Brit Milah (Jewish circumcision) 8 days after I was born in the USA I have never known my Hebrew name. I have created various ones including Ephraim ben Uri and Achael ben Uriel. If anyone knows my Hebrew name from August 1968 in Massachusetts please let me know... more…

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