Best Israel Poems

Yonder comes the messenger
Forging thicket and thistle;
A young postal carrier
Known as Israel Bissell.

It began in Watertown,
This bold tale of derring-do;
Bearing news of Lexington,
He would get the message through.

America’s call to arms
Was his burden to carry.
Because of its importance,
Israel did not tarry.

The lad set out that...

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Dazzle of enclave, virgin of historical peach
Silent as the name sounds
Sanctity in waters and revered land....

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the love and reverence 
is what I noticed first 
a motherland a homeland 
but then I saw the curse 

a beautiful Israeli girl
too jewish shunned like me 
but a goy in the kitchen 
still instant friends were we

fast forward to this present day
with Gaza razed...

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You call it Israel carelessly 
You call it that thoughtlessly 
Unquestioning is it okay? 
Unnoticing the decay 
The strong hold of all the Palestinians 
The firm desires it will be free again 
Did you see or have you went blind
To all the things they did
To...

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I-t
S-till
R-seeks of
A-atrocious
E-vil
L-ies...

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I feel to say,  
I feel to say loud ,
 loudly today 
But If I say the truth 
Many people won't see this injustice.
Why  mass killings of innocent people? 

I feel to say,  
I feel to say loud ,
 loudly today 
But If I  say the truth...

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If a bomb goes off on a train or bus,
I guarantee the aftermath will not be too fabulous.
If I found myself in Haifa, Jerusalem, or Tel Aviv,
the first thing I would want to do is leave.
I can name so many other places for a vacation.
In...

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Remember

Israel of three thousand years
expulsed at times
enslaved by the Romans
gassed by Europe
persecuted by Saudi-Arabia
murdered by Iran and Iraq
shackled by Egypt
attacked by Jordan
robbed by Syria
sold out by the UK
bombed by the IRA
slandered with spit by Turkish terrorists
sent to the Siberian gulags in Russia
comrades they are not
evicted...

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         A woman speaks:
“I will live in a tent, or demand I pay no rent!
My name is Sally, I want everything free!
To God, I never will bend an ungraterul knee!
For my community…..nothing will I ever do!
For the...

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David was an artist - before you and me
A Jewish psalmist - famous for Ps. 23
Various prayers had been sung, by Moses
In particular, psalm 90: before Time itself
David's God had been our Provider
Showing us faithfulness, generation by generation


Prove me, said David, but with Mercy
LORD, I...

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Salome just loved gingerbread
But Herod misheard what she said
Who wants a dead head
To bounce in their bed?
So she dashed to the John instead


*Title inspired by Special Character, Ilene Bauer...

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The Maker of violets and roses 
Gave a land to the tribes led by Moses
In antiquity
For eternity
And all of humanity knows it....

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As some Africans continue to voice out 
about Palestinians victims of atrocities 
from decades ,
 it is  humanity.
Why continue to kill innocent people?
When I see Americans military 
bases in Israel 
Many questions rise in my minds 
Which governments support the mass
killings of Palestinians? 
What will...

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A child’s scarf lies abandoned in the street.
Through splayed fingers over face,
startled innocent eyes....

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POEM: Welcome to Palestine. The land of the prophets and the martyrs. 


Let’s show show some respect, and bow down in humility…
Gaza may be small, but their angels are all over and as far as the eye can see..
 
Saying Herod, Nimrod, and Pharoah are...

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