Dreidel Poems - Poems about Dreidel

A Fiendish Destitution

...While we dwell to this dreidel,
I seek to know before a sear,
Even in the most ineluctable dandle,
The fruit to which may indeed bear;
In the imbue oblivion, I tell a riddle,
Most morass yet mer...

Children and Chanukah

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**Chanukah**


Colored Candles

Luscious Latkes

Songs and Prayers 


Love and Heritage

Dreidel Playing

Peace for Israel


**Chanukah**



12/13/2022
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On Chanukah

...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 with pride,
With ...

Waiting For the Don'T Care Package

...Sink and rise
float away, swim back.
Mood swings its legs over a trapeze once more.
There's a pill for that and this
but what ails is so out of date
that it forgets its name.
Body awareness fow...

Our Union

...the primrose sin of long unwaxing days
hours religious as a dreidel
in near earth orbit
we pluck dry flowers
like flirting genesis
like writing the noon-day Bible
and dispel a magic
we’d long ...

Eight Days and Nights

...Light the candles, flames so bright 
   Chanukah's here eight days and nights
Spin the dreidel 'round and 'round
   Potato latkes frying, yummy sounds

A few coins for the kinder
   Precious si...

A Happy Minor Holiday

...A happy minor holiday
  That's what Chanukah was
'Till its proximity to Christmas
   gave it an American buzz

In days of old, we lit the candles
   Spun the dreidel** for mere pennies --
Now ...

Prevalence of Purposelessness

...Early in life worthlessness prevailed employ
ying gnawing, infecting thought processes
did more than annoy
rooted, short circuited, and tasered
flickr happiness lived

spontaneous bobbing spong...

For Eight Nights

...Channukah Candles

  Burn so bright … Latkes delight …

            Spin the Dreidel!...

Ma Little Brown Chickadee

...(ah miss bing amiss with former mistress)

Oh Glenda (Miz Gee gee) 
     years elapsed since, I didst hawk 
     verboten fruit adrip
from yar verdant bough,  
     thy strong craven raven 
  ...

Snacks

...I tried to eat a baseball cap
A dreidel and some lumber
Some beetles and a monkey trap
And now this swell cucumber....

'twittering Christmas'

...Tis' the age of twitter
and sharing social status
Often quite bitter 
that tech apparatus
                                                              
A new kind of Christmas
That seems to ju...

Confluence

...A rare confluence of events
Is happening tonight
To fill both Jews and Christians
With a feeling of delight.

At sunset Chanukah begins;
Two candles thus will glow,
While Christmas brings exci...

My Lyrical Enlightenment: a Poet's Worth

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My head spins like a dreidel in December.
Searching for God's grace while laying in bed like an open casket.
Waiting for His resurrection like it's Easter Sunday.
At mercy to the Devil's...

Holiday Music

...When Christmas music blasts in stores,
It jangles all my nerves.
I really do not understand 
The purpose that it serves.

Such gaiety seems forced and fake,
Especially to me,
‘Cause I’m not on...

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