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Best Shabbat Poems

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


Shabbat Shalom
Sweet woman of Yahweh
sing to me
the Song of Songs
song of love
with kisses of wine.

I desire you
as Adam desired Eve
primordial affection
this knowledge I seek of you
my...

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Categories: shabbat, beautiful, devotion, love, religious,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shabbat Mourning
7th October, 2023. Israel.


“Shabbat Mourning” 

the War commenced 
with morning, rudely awakened,
unrest.

some say,
it has arrived, 
the biblical Apocalypse. 

some say,
not war, just another 
haggling loose...

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Categories: shabbat, humanity, war, world,
Form: Narrative
I Think, This Shabbat
Listening to services 
on my computer 
   I remember by 
wild youth 
   Now I sit perched 
on
the 
precipice of old...

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Categories: shabbat, jewish,
Form: Concrete
Shabbat Approaching
The years have not always treated us well 
We have taken a pounding from Anti Semites 
And enemies of various backgrounds
But I feel a sense...

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Categories: shabbat, devotion, jewish,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Last Train To Auschwitz Contest
Ashes to Ashes

Smoke
rises in the distance.

The boxcar
rocks,
rocks,
rocks;
stones
are placed along the ties.
Were they placed by Chance
or left 
as gently as Kaddish.
I lift my hands in the...

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Categories: shabbat, angst, death, death of
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member A Sabbath Dream
~ A Sabbath Dream ~  

When table's set in purest white
   Candles lit and shining bright
Two ministering Angels of Peace
  ...

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Categories: shabbat, angel, jewish, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gaia Out Speaks
Queen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.

Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked...

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Categories: shabbat, earth, gender, god, health,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The L Word
Liberal in restoring Love,
Conservatively against retributive Anger and Fear

The L word,
like the N word,
Labels no one with healthy political aspirations would want,
no conservative fellow-conservationist of...

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Categories: shabbat, culture, destiny, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Earth's Final Answer
A society
culture
religion
humane species
forgetting,
or more likely under-valuing,
how to regeneratively suffer loss
may never have learned to face our universal fear of death
as a badge of permaculturing respect,
dignity...

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Categories: shabbat, beauty, earth day, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Kitchen
Years my father nostalgic for my mother.
She'd set the Shabbat table
Guess the white cloth the flu vegetable land
 Let the fine flour, put the meat
Put...

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Categories: shabbat, family, mother, language, grandmother,
Form: Epic
Premium Member When We Were Eight
When you were eight years old
waking to another perfect day's dawn
what potential did you
with your autonomic empathy,
integrity of left-deductive
with elder-right-tempered languages,
discover?

Who were you
as you stepped...

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Categories: shabbat, adventure, age, culture, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Foresting Divine Health
If you were a tree,
or even a revolving cultural tree of history,
SunGod would gift-forward
fore-give
ProGenerate your positive/negative perennial waves of energy,
nutrition, healthy midway 
between  fear...

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Categories: shabbat, destiny, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Shalom
Shalom

Date: Sat, Nov 7 2015 at 11:47 PM

All alone on this "Path"
But God with on my "Wrath"
Do the "Math"
This the Future of my "Past"
Blast from...

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Categories: shabbat, i am, leadership, spoken
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Book of Lists
A book of lists
is what I need
to absolve Earth's Tribes
of rampant greed.

Before and after lists,
being and becoming fists,
masculine and feminist mutual mentoring trists
of transliterative transubstantiation.

I...

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Categories: shabbat, culture, earth day, history,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Greener Bodhisattva World
This is the third time
I've read Beyond Religion:
Ethics
[non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-violent]
for A (not "The") Whole World
[ZeroZenZone Universe, psychological and politically eco-logical].

In the second, of two, sections,
the...

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Categories: shabbat, beauty, green, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs