Sandra Schachter

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Oct 7, 2024, 6:56 AM

Poem: Not Today

the pain is so hard to bear so deep so deep so hard to bear... tomorrows might be better one might say but not today not today

Jun 5, 2024, 6:49 AM

Yom Yerushalayim, Missing You Jerusalem

I miss the soft flannel touch of Jerusalem nights cool scented mornings and the waft of wild spice through autumn pine and my Jerusalem window

May 13, 2024, 4:12 PM

Yom Hazikaron poem: I think of you always

it is not only today that I think of you and your lives lost... I think of you always... I am here today because of the names you left behind

May 6, 2024, 2:26 PM

Yom Hashoah poem: We weep together

on this morning I am with you in your last days... and in my imaginings I hold you close and we weep together trembling through long nights... through the cold... just know you're never alone you're never forgotten

May 18, 2023, 3:32 PM

and when you speak of Jerusalem come sit by me among the folds of Judean hillsides and when you speak of Jerusalem sit by me amid sage and thyme sprinklings of saplings and textures and tones resounding on a Jerusalem day

Apr 24, 2023, 11:47 PM

far from you now lighting a candle holding you close in silence in stillness looking back remembering in sadness battlefields your lives lost... remembering

Apr 17, 2023, 7:33 PM

Yom Hashoah – And I Don’t Forget

the siren calls and I stand here weeping remembering how it was... the cattle car roaring its way hurling you to your end... I hold your hand and yours presses mine I ache and I don't forget

Oct 6, 2022, 5:01 PM

Yom Kippur and the Wars That Were

she stands between two worlds torn by October and the scathing wars that were highway metal memories stark on clinging hills ... sage in sunshine patches and Jerusalem sunsets speaking into the night ... she stands between two worlds torn by October and the scathing wars that were the chilling siren and the silence and...

Jun 5, 2022, 4:03 PM

With You On Ammunition Hill – Remembering the Six-Day War

here on ammunition hill years after you I walk through the war on an easy saturday and I hear your cries as the bullets pierce your hearts and I feel the pain as you watch your best friends fall I'm here with you now on ammunition hill I count...

May 29, 2022, 3:24 PM

To you, Jerusalem

it isn't just that the sounds of you thrill me so the midnight music of you humming velvet the satin calm of your morning song brushing misty against my waiting window it's just that it's so right to be loving you so

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About Me

Sandra Schachter made aliya from Canada in 1968 and lived in Jerusalem for 33 years, where she was a freelance writer and editor, contributing articles and poetry to various publications around the world. She now resides in Montreal.