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Famous Chanukah Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Chanukah poems written by well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous chanukah poems.

These examples illustrate what a famous chanukah poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate). The poems may also contain the word 'chanukah'.

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My Mothers Body by Piercy, Marge 1. The dark socket of the year the pit, the cave where the sun lies down and threatens never to rise, when despair descends softly as the snow covering...Read More
December 25 by Lehman, David Christmas defeated Chanukah once again last night by a margin of three billion dollars or so, but every time I hear a Yiddish word like bupkes in a movie (L.A. Confidential) or when Oleg Cassini...Read More

My Mothers Body

by Piercy, Marge

 1. 

The dark socket of the year 
the pit, the cave where the sun lies down 
and threatens never to rise, 
when despair descends softly as the snow 
covering...Read More

December 25

by Lehman, David

 Christmas defeated Chanukah
once again last night
by a margin of three billion dollars
or so, but every time I hear
a Yiddish word like bupkes
in a movie (L.A. Confidential)
or when Oleg Cassini...Read More

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