Best Antiochus Poems

Mr. Arthur Hamilton was presented with an odd proposition.
He received a note from a stranger at a train station.
A phone call came from a “deceased” friend the night before.
The next night, that same person called Mr. Hamilton once more.
The voice was speaking with some strange...

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HANUKKAH
Festival of Lights/ Feast of Dedication,

As a kid, Hanukkah
was the Jewish replacement for Christmas,
But even better!
We celebrated for eight nights,
Which meant eight presents!
It was the festival of lights

We ate latkes or potato pancakes, 
We Played with spinning tops called driedels
Sang the driedel song
Opened one present...

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Greatest of military men, Carthage's son, bright and bold
Took the elephants of war over the Pyrenees frozen cold
And would delay the Gentile's time fulfilling when the race
Stood proud, under your command of the second Punic war
But then that Africanus, your student with love displaced
Entered North...

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    A few hundred ragtag, rabbinic Maccabees
      faced the might of Antiochus’ army
        60,000 fighting men strong             ...

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