Best Chanukah Poems
Below are the all-time best Chanukah poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chanukah poems written by PoetrySoup members
Chanukah HaikuThe lights shine brightly
And our souls are touched by this
Peace to all of you...
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Categories:
chanukah,
Form:
Haiku
Chanukah, AgainLights shining in
the night celebrate
the re - birth
of
the
spirit
Lights open the door
to the heart's deepest...
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Categories:
chanukah,
Form:
Concrete
Another Chanukah, Another yearThe ghost of Chanukah past
haunts me
Yes, Chanukah past
candles burning, candles burning
In battle...
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Categories:
baseball, chanukah, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Universal Holidays
Never had a Christmas tree
or some mistletoe
No wreath of holly on my door
just a mezuzah there, you know
No stockings stuffed with...
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Categories:
appreciation, chanukah, christian, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
To Make God Happy
Not all about a fancy tree
or menorah made of gold
Though holidays be times of joy
there's a story to be told
Maccabees fought...
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Categories:
chanukah, christian, christmas, god,
Form:
Rhyme
identityIdentity
What a strange word
It exists for those with longings
for the mystical past.
The world has many cultures
it is easy to get lost
in the wilderness...
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Categories:
car, cat, chanukah, child,
Form:
Blank verse
The Old Holiday Spirit
Eight days and nights of Chanukah
is a little much for me
I've gotten to that 'golden age'
where it's really hard to be
Happy,...
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Categories:
celebration, chanukah, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
Poem about the RockersCutting through the consciousness
of the U.S.A.
Children of Chuck Berry and Elvis
Girls gyrating wildly in the corners of the space
While the odor of...
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Categories:
chanukah, music,
Form:
Ballade
At NightAt night life goes beyond limits
Shameful and fearless evaporates
Boys and girls tiptoe out of their abode to peculiar places
Blankets dances all the night
Even the gloomy...
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Categories:
chanukah, bullying, butterfly, cancer, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
I'm on my wayI broke my ties at seventeen,trying to find myself a life:
Sold my bike for sixty-five dollars,bought a ticket for a ride.
I was headed out to...
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Categories:
blessing, change, chanukah, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
Genesis Wasn't that the name of a rock band?
Or perhaps something from Star Trek?
The world was not created in 7 days
However, after Adam...
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Categories:
africa, bible, chanukah, creation,
Form:
Didactic
Betting on LastI've always loved predicting
Which will be the last to die.
I'm rarely right but still each night
I study them and try.
They start out on an equal...
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Categories:
chanukah,
Form:
Rhyme
I come to Posey Sooper's recipe rescue ( Looking at the poems of the day or year or whatever it was- saw a poem . . . A poem? Actually called...
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Categories:
chanukah, 2nd grade, baby, bangla,
Form:
Didactic
snowfall in AprilSnowfall In April
The snowflakes that fell this morning were big
and descended slowly and with sadness they knew
that this was the wrong time...
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Categories:
chanukah, age, blessing, blue, celebration,
Form:
Sonnet
Good MorningGood Morning
The light from the sun fills the window in the kitchen.
Not all at once mind you, but at it’s on speed.
The little...
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Categories:
chanukah, 9th grade, age, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
CORRUPTION CORRUPTION
I look at the horizon of life,
the destiny of our country
No love,, passing infatuation
with crucifixion of hearts and souls
Blindfolded
worsened by highhandedness
closely followed by...
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Categories:
betrayal, chanukah, corruption, depression,
Form:
Alliteration
A Holiday PoemA Holiday Poem
Mom and I went shopping at the mall
When we got there I saw a tree standing so tall.
I couldn’t believe all the decorations...
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Categories:
chanukah, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Categories:
best friend, chanukah, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
Season's GreetingsHo, ho, ho,
I don't think so,
'Tis the season,
Nope, I'll give the reasons.
Is it Christmas
When Santa Claus is indicted for murder,
Peace and...
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Categories:
chanukah, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Free verse
Fidel Castro the Diablo's Death Christmas again
Castro! the Diablo of Life succumbs to Death
Castro! the devil’s advocate
orchestrated hooligans,
and kept a destructive quest.
Turned a civil nation chaotic.
Death, destruction, and demoralizing...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, celebration, chanukah,
Form:
Didactic
Dinner On The Lake
She's a young mother of two
dated knuckle heads, immature.
Two kids in tow from deadbeat dads
saggers using kids as pawns for sex.
Be a man, be...
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Categories:
chanukah, romance, romantic, ,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Categories:
chanukah, christmas, creation, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Holiday ReflectionChristmas and Hanukkah
mark the winter season
Eight burning candles with a shames
in the middle
Pine trees replete with ornaments and lights
In the...
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Categories:
chanukah, christmas, heart, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
one more cup of tom
oh gee he is a bundle
of dog as i have the same brindle coat
on a mantel they remind me what it took
of my life to...
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Categories:
care, celebration, chanukah, community,
Form:
Free verse
When You Are AwayMy spirit hurts
At the arrive of the night
When you are away.
My spirit cries
When you are away,
Why don't you lay with me?
My heart aches
At...
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Categories:
age, art, chanukah, character,
Form:
Cinquain