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Best Seder Poems

Below are the all-time best Seder poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of seder poems written by PoetrySoup members


Pre-Seder
The chicken soup and matzoh balls
Are ready for the pot.
The hard-boiled eggs are in the fridge.
(We never eat them hot.)

The items for the Seder plate
All...

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Categories: seder, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member It's Passover-Seder Time
Alright, you guys, it's 'Passover-Seder-time!'
  First we party -- Drink a whole glass of wine.

Wait, wait, wait.  Back-up.  We gotta tell the...

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Categories: seder, celebration, holiday, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Pesach Seder
P  Pass over, O God of Israel, the houses of Israel on this night
E  Egypt, unsuspecting even at midnight of what was to...

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Categories: seder, celebration, freedom, god, holiday,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member No Hasty Seder
When God took us out from Egypt, we left in haste,
Not waiting for our flat bread to rise--no time to waste:
  No time to...

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Categories: seder, faith, holiday, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Pre-Seder Afternoon
The holiday’s at sunset
So the afternoon before
Is time for eating food
We won’t be eating anymore.

No bread or beer or pasta -
Not a bagel for a...

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Categories: seder, food, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme



Passover - As Always
The season of the 
    seder 
is 
almost 
upon 
us 
We will be filled with joy 
when we imbibe 
the four cups...

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Categories: seder, jewish, joy,
Form: Blank verse
Passover Wishes
The years have 
    come and gone 
  and we are gathered here 
       ...

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Categories: seder, holiday, peace,
Form: Free verse
Passover Memories
Tonight we’ll sit around the table
While we’re reminiscing
Both about the Israelites
And those whom we are missing.

Every Seder takes me back
To those when I was young.
I...

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Categories: seder, holiday, nostalgia, fish, cousin,
Form: Rhyme
Pesach
matzo of life on the seder, freedom and humility of might...

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Categories: seder, food, freedom, history, humanity,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Caesar Sees Her Alliteration
Sea Czar Caesar sees her seated on a cedar two-seater beside the East Sea Seder.  He grieves since he sees his sister, Esther Dexter,...

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Categories: seder, humorous, love, passion, sea,
Form: Alliteration
Gefilte Fish
The company was wonderful;
The meal was quite delish,
All lovingly prepared except
The jarred gefilte fish.

But certain things you have to have – 
Tradition reigns supreme –...

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Categories: seder, food, holiday, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Poem Before Passover
Soon enough we will gather
for the festive meal 
   We will tell the tale 
  of the liberation of the Hebrew slaves...

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Categories: seder, father, jewish,
Form: Concrete
Shank Bone
The Seder meal approaches;
A shank bone is required.
In years gone by, the butcher smiled
Whenever I inquired.

I hardly know him, but these bones
Are tossed when meat...

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Categories: seder, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Bus Stop
Sitting in the waiting room her sunlit day; complying to their sequence
Amid a foregone conclusion ? Appearing suddenly out of nowhere
Ineffable somehow it seems this,...

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Categories: seder, angel, art, autumn,
Form: I do not know?
Charoset
Charoset is a sweet, brown relish eaten during Passover.
It symbolizes brick mortar on a plate during a Seder.
This is a sweet treat made for the...

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Categories: seder, food, religious,
Form: Rhyme

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