Song Chanukah Poems

I got my box of candles
With exactly forty-four.
I hope that I don’t break one
If it bounces on the floor.

Or maybe one’s defective
With a wick that...

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If you are in hell, Inhale
In jail? Inhale!
But exhale, too...yes. Inhale in hell the ex IT hell
Exhale, exit hell. 

You can. 
In, Ex. Repeat
Must emancipate...

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David sang of Deliverance
Blessed in God's mercy
We sing of forgiveness
Great is God's Love
Our sins washed away
Transgressions out of sight
Humans love disobedience too
You know us inwardly
Yet...

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On Chanukah we dreidel spin
And chocolate gelt we hope to win.
If we get Gimel ‘stead of Shin,
Let’s celebrate tonight.

We eat some latkes, oil-fried,
Which balabustas* made...

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Our Chanukah Menorah
Inhaling sparked air, candlestick wicks,
Exhaling gold leaping tongues,
Hypnotize more than magic tricks,
Sharing a story, singing songs,
8 illumined nights lighting 36,
Freeing us from "Yavan"...

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The Task

The tornado that hit my desk, 
has collapsed everything...
into a sinkhole, 
which I doubt there is any...
coming back from. 
Maybe if I organized? 
If...

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Good Morning

The light from the sun fills the window in the kitchen. 
Not all at once mind you, but at it’s on speed. 
The little...

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After the 
guns have been fired 
   and later - the dead counted 
   we remember the wars of long ago...

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They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love, oh so thick!
A beautiful gospel by Peter Schotte, published in 1966
Cannot sing it...

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Christmas and Hanukkah 
mark the winter season 
Eight burning candles with a shames 
in the middle 
Pine trees replete with ornaments and lights 
In the...

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Cutting through the consciousness 
of the U.S.A. 
Children of Chuck Berry and Elvis 
Girls gyrating wildly in the corners of the space
While the odor of...

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