Child Chanukah Poems

Yuletide pageant merry go round

Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style 
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart 
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two...

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Damian Stood with the front 
Door opened and said,  "Family! 
We will be leaving in fifteen 
Minutes. Do whatever you have
To before we hit...

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Whats on my mind
Depends on what I find
Searching for my star
It's out there shining , so far
So far Away
Lord ,so far away
Thing I thought true
Little...

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Baruch atah, Adonai 
Eloheinu, Melech haolam, 
asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav 
v’tsivanu l’hadlik ner 
shel Hanukkah.

Praised are You, Lord 
our God, Ruler of the universe, 
who made...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Not listening
 
The old poet, a Canadian of Jewish ancestry,
Was tall elegant, wearing a hat in a jaunty angle
Reminded me of Alfred, my imagined father
He...

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Alley, a narrow road or street
Passage for different souls
Some are distinguished and others are nobody
You have been made for many years, historical

Children are playing and...

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Identity 

What a strange word 
It exists for those with longings
for the mystical past.

The world has many cultures
it is easy to get lost
in the wilderness...

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Selling books

A friend of mine who used to be my editor,
until I discovered she was bewildered by commas,
has gone all mercantile, if you buy one...

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Halfway on the curve of your waist
Rhymes become audible
Climbing your pelvis
Rhythms suffer
Falling from your hips
Syllables dream of feathers
In the heat between your thighs
Metaphors melt
Crawling down...

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Moving an Embassy 

So it happened then Israel won the White House
and the Embassy will be in Jerusalem, while this is seen
as a great success...

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such heretics pitched headlong 
into fiendish frothing furnace
forcing obeisance toward primitive popular 
identified, honored, glorified father figure
expressing devotion re: 
decking the halls of the mountain...

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Everyday your dreams make me tight.
Tell me, tell me, what do you do now in beloved.

I do not come without you,
My happiness on the lips.
It...

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Thoughtless Day   

I was looking out of the window
The view was a road and an opposite wall
And I decided to think of nothing...

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A Holiday Poem

Mom and I went shopping at the mall
When we got there I saw a tree standing so tall.
I couldn’t believe all the decorations...

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