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Best Dreidel Poems

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The Spinning Dreidel
Hanukkah is a time for presents, potatoes and dreidels,
Everyone has fun, even babies in cradles,
They can watch the dreidel spin, and spin and spin,
until they...

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Categories: dreidel, holiday
Form: Prose Poetry



'twittering Christmas'
Tis' the age of twitter
and sharing social status
Often quite bitter 
that tech apparatus
            ...

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Categories: dreidel, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Santa Rules 2012 Drone Attack Iminnent
Oh winter has come today
and Ole Santa has greased up his sleigh
he no buffoon so he's packed a stuffed loon
and long john with a dreidel...

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Categories: dreidel, funny, winter, winter,
Form: Light Verse
Holiday Music
When Christmas music blasts in stores,
It jangles all my nerves.
I really do not understand 
The purpose that it serves.

Such gaiety seems forced and fake,
Especially to...

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Categories: dreidel, holiday, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snacks
I tried to eat a baseball cap
A dreidel and some lumber
Some beetles and a monkey trap
And now this swell cucumber....

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Categories: dreidel, animal, food, funny, humorous,
Form: Quatrain



My Lyrical Enlightenment: a Poet's Worth
My head spins like a dreidel in December.
Searching for God's grace while laying in bed like an open casket.
Waiting for His resurrection like it's Easter...

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Categories: dreidel, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Thanksgivukkah
Happy Thanksgivukkah!
Latkes and turkey!
Protocol here is
A little bit murky.

It hasn't happened
For thousands of years
And we'll all be dead
Before it reappears.

So watch all your football
And spin...

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Categories: dreidel, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
A Fiendish Destitution
While we dwell to this dreidel,
I seek to know before a sear,
Even in the most ineluctable dandle,
The fruit to which may indeed bear;
In the imbue...

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Categories: dreidel, 3rd grade, africa, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Ma Little Brown Chickadee
(ah miss bing amiss with former mistress)

Oh Glenda (Miz Gee gee) 
     years elapsed since, I didst hawk 
  ...

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Categories: dreidel, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eight Days and Nights
Light the candles, flames so bright 
   Chanukah's here eight days and nights
Spin the dreidel 'round and 'round
   Potato latkes frying,...

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Categories: dreidel, celebration, holiday, inspirational, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Happy Minor Holiday
A happy minor holiday
  That's what Chanukah was
'Till its proximity to Christmas
   gave it an American buzz

In days of old, we lit...

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Categories: dreidel, holiday, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
It's No Mystery How Much I Loathe Mankind.. But Who Can Resist?
I am in love with mystery
What makes an clock loud to silence but quiet to sound
Can we taste the clouds rain has burst from
Touch the...

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Categories: dreidel, fantasy, inspirational, mystery, love,
Form: Free verse
Prevalence of Purposelessness
Early in life worthlessness prevailed employ
ying gnawing, infecting thought processes
did more than annoy
rooted, short circuited, and tasered
flickr happiness lived

spontaneous bobbing sponging buoy
clinging to mother's
apron string...

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Categories: dreidel, america, betrayal, fear, husband,
Form: Bio
Confluence
A rare confluence of events
Is happening tonight
To fill both Jews and Christians
With a feeling of delight.

At sunset Chanukah begins;
Two candles thus will glow,
While Christmas brings...

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Categories: dreidel, chanukah, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Children and Chanukah






**Chanukah**


Colored Candles

Luscious Latkes

Songs and Prayers 


Love and Heritage

Dreidel Playing

Peace for Israel


**Chanukah**



12/13/2022

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Categories: dreidel, celebration, chanukah,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs