Chanukah Poems | Examples of Chanukah Poetry

Haiku - A modern day holocaust:9

Oh Palestine!
your resilient people 
hungry in rags  still steadfast
steady  prayers kept

I am a jew

Jews are aliens
we return to  mother ship
relax wine and feast

What would Moses do

And it will shower on the
 Eastern Gate
A rain so hard
 it wouldn't wait
The sound and actions
 tornado's make
Moving earth with 
 instant haste

The flow of water
 from up above
And wind so swift
 to remove the cover of
That which men 
 would try to prevent
Would be a delay of time
 actually sent

The Mount of Olives

drywall

inside of twenty takes
dirty filled frames
no resolution
to me the family
that a ugly
call me
cat purrs on approach
welcome spat
too literal 
gotta reclamation
eye's cried so much relief
brushes is dusty clean
practice strokes at the gentleman's table
romanticism, adjatate, harpsichords
classified and credentialed
white ink's a tank thinking
'I remember", "he"
distract the trap, autumns born
waves of green mustard gas
country come plains, it's not your

This World is Not Yours

Alas, we are taught as children, this part of the God’s 
Earth is all mine?

That might have been true, decades ago, but no longer
does that slogan shine!

I just hope that we do not blow each other apart, by the  spread of 
false narratives!

In which invalid nations, will kill children and throw them 
into a

december

(a quick, staccato tapping of imaginary typewriter keys)

december!

(d(arkness)).
(e(nding)).
(c(old)).
(e(ven so)).
(m(emory(christmas hanukkah kwanza))).
(b(efore(ten))).
(e(ach(a flicker))).
(r(estless(me))).

(a pause; a cigarette flicked into an unseen ashtray).

(born)this(month)me,
(a small(fear))a big(joy)a whispered(prayer),
(this)light(a(breath))).

(a final, almost whispered keystroke),

(it is perfect).

Potato Latkes

Potato latkes, fried in oil
Are eaten every year
When calendars remind us
That our holiday is here.

To keep up the tradition,
There are choices we must make – 
Buy them frozen in the market,
Use a mix (that’s a mistake!)

Find them in a local diner
Or, if you have time and space,
Gather all of the ingredients
And your cookware in one

Betting on the Candles

We light our candles every night
And then we place a bet
On which will be the last to fade;
We’ve not forgotten yet.

This game goes back to childhood
When my brothers made their picks.
Then when I became a mother,
My two kids were in the mix.

Today, it’s just my husband
And myself who get to choose,
Yet we pay real close

My Amrit

No one only his eyes
Shows the symbol of love 
Even If I commit mistakes 
His eyes reflects sign of guilt 
Perception differs 
Not even we have single matches 
But 
Our hearts crawl to see each other faces 

No one was able to lure my heart 
His innocent face was one 
Which took away 

Even the

It Too Spreads Cheer

    Chanukah, Christmas -- the same day this year
    Though Chanukah’s minor, it too spreads cheer
        Her lights dispel the darkness
        Increasing every night
    ‘Til she exits in a blaze, her flames

Secret of a People's Survival

     Potato latkes* sizzle
       in pure olive oil
        pancakes fry up brown

     One scrumptious bite
       ~ assimilation drowns



     _____________________    
 

The 'Mighty Maccabees'

    A few hundred ragtag, rabbinic Maccabees
      faced the might of Antiochus’ army
        60,000 fighting men strong                       

The Candle Tip

I use my grandma’s cookie shapes
For Chanukah each year.
They’re plastic and so very old
They might not persevere.

The candle cutter’s broken
So it’s hard to get a grip
On the pieces (there are 3 of them),
Especially the tip.

Since I’d hate to leave a shape out,
I just take an extra sec,
But today, between the batches,
I looked down and –

light kindles light

night folds its endless hands—
shadows stretch & scatter
(aching)
for warmth
for a flicker.

a mother whispers prayers, her voice
a cradle—
soft syllables swaying
against the weight of exile’s wind.

one wick, then another—
then eight:
flames lean into each other,
(dizzy with hope)
(drunk with remembering).

oil scarce as breath,
yet its story unfolds:
a temple reclaimed
a heart unbroken.

the menorah blinks its quiet Morse code:
endure.
endure.
endure.

children spin tops—
letters clinking

Only time

ONLY TIME.

Many things happen in this mysterious life and the greater part are things we'd not know,
Things shrouded in bleak mysteries that operate in obscurity but amongst men do show.
Trying to decipher these things is tantamount to trying to hold the wind which gives pain;
For every effort put in trying to decipher these encrypted things

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