Road Trip
Ah the joys of sunrise
awakened from sleeping
in car on a carefree
surfing safari trip
up north, with just me and
my board transfixed in bliss...
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Categories:
holiday, sea,
Form: Verse
Flowers are so maudlin, anyway
Possibilities bloom before my very eyes
of gifts that will my lovely wife surprise ...
Imagine her delight when on Mother’s Day
~ that roll of $100’s with ‘opm’ I pay*
...
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Categories:
giving, holiday, humor, money,
Form: Couplet
May DayI have awaken to some days filled with misery.
And there are other days clouded with mystery.
And there are some yesterdays that are neither
good nor bad but are simply a vision of history.
May Day for me has always cast a fond memory,
except the day in May when my father passed away.
My father died in that month...
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Categories:
holiday, may,
Form: Free verse
Chicken Liver Pate'A holiday tradition,
Christmas time with Dad.
A gourmet appetizer.
Chicken livers cooked,
with sherry, garlic.
Keep cold to-
spread
...
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Categories:
appreciation, dad, holiday, nostalgia,
Form: Epulaeryu
Summer holidayThe summer holidays are here!
Time to relax and unwind.
Let's head for the beach,
build sandcastles, ride on donkeys
and paddle in the sea.
The golden sun is shining -
No clouds are in sight.
We apply coconut scented lotion
then lay on beach towels
taking care not to burn!
We unpack our picnic hamper
onto a huge tartan rug.
There’s lots of delicious treats
food...
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Categories:
beach, holiday, sun,
Form: Free verse
In Your Easter BonnetShe, in her Easter bonnet
Standing beneath the shade,
Alongside gentlemen in top hats
To view an Easter parade
Church bells ring distantly
Showy, white lilies sway,
Waving to sweet daffodils
On this springtime holiday
Baskets with chocolate rabbits
Jelly beans and colored eggs,
Are carried by happy children
Running by on pudgy legs
A whirl of pastel colors
Meant to delight the eye,
Like...
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Categories:
holiday, candy, celebration, clothes, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Good Friday
Categories:
faith, holiday,
Form: Haiku
The Lighter Side of Antisemitism
For those who want to ‘kill all the Jews’
Here’s some food for thought
Get a rabbi to extend Passover one more week
You’ll love what will have been wrought
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Categories:
food, holiday, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
The lake on EasterIts water seems to have frozen
Making the lake standstill as stone
With translucent and rather peace
While shores undulating the houses
Together, are the carved sculptures
With full of silent and full of tender
For wind shaking the trees to visit
The circumstances mysteriously made
By no man walking on the streets
Should a weekend start...
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Categories:
holiday, appreciation, blessing, christian, destiny,
Form: Free verse
ChocolateCreamy and decadent,
cacao confection.
Cups often enjoyed hot!
Candy for holidays,
celebration of love.
Compounds of magic that -
can cure a broken heart!
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Categories:
appreciation, chocolate, holiday,
Form: Pleiades
Mildred’s Onion RollsA colleague once gave me, on paper,
A recipe written by hand
For Passover rolls
And one of her goals
Was for choices I’d make to expand.
Though they can’t substitute for a bagel
Or some sourdough or seeded rye,
For the holiday week
When some bread I might seek,
They’re a stand-in on which I rely.
When I make them, I’m thinking of Mildred,
Though...
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Categories:
food, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of Bataan: A Valor Endures
At dawn of that ninth when shadows still clung,
Against the harsh orders, a desperate song.
Seventy thousand with bodies so frail,
Surrendered on Bataan, a heartbreaking trail.
No glorious charge but a choice born of need,
To save those still breathing to plant a small seed
Of hope in the darkness though bitter the cost,
A sacrifice made lest all should...
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Categories:
courage, hero, history, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
The Recipe on the BoxEach year I make the matzoh balls,
Which come out pretty good.
My husband cooks the chicken soup;
Our roles are understood.
He always wings it when he cooks,
Just uses what’s on hand
And never needs a recipe,
Which I can’t understand.
I follow the directions
When I cook or when I bake
And measure the ingredients
So there is no mistake.
My time-worn recipes are...
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Categories:
food, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Symbols for the Ancients and Us
Shecht and eat the Paschal lamb
Destroy the ‘no-gods’ of Canaan and Ham
Break the middle matzo, hide half away
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Categories:
history, holiday, jewish, symbolism,
Form: Couplet
Passover Seder's Nadir
Two full cups of wine
even before we dine
Two more later, raised in song
What could go wrong ~
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Categories:
drink, holiday, jewish,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Holiday Poems
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Definition | What is Holiday in Poetry?
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