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Famous Bar Mitzvah Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Bar Mitzvah poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous bar mitzvah poems. These examples illustrate what a famous bar mitzvah poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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..., having now thirteen years
 will thank his parents that he exists
To celebrate his birthday of manhood, his chocolate 
Bar Mitzvah, his yum-yum kippered herring, his Russian
 Corona....Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore



...derstand.
"Desire, be steady; hope is your delight,
An orb wherein no creature can ever be sorry."

She didn't go to my bar mitzvah, either.
I can't say why: she was there, and then she wasn't.
I looked around before I mounted the steps
To chant that babble and the speech the rabbi wrote
And there she wasn't, and there was Uncle Walter
The Cohane frowning with his doggy face:
"She's missing her own son's musaf." Maybe she just
Doesn't like rituals. Afterwards, she had a reaso...Read more of this...
by Pinsky, Robert

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