Long Yiddish Poems
Long Yiddish Poems. Below are the most popular long Yiddish by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Yiddish poems by poem length and keyword.
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your FavoriteThe Spaniel
A Spaniel that uses its head
Can tell when its owner’s unfed
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck
Will deliver a pizza instead
The Afghan Hound
The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...
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Categories:
yiddish, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
yiddish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Doomsday Clock Minute HandDoomsday Clock minute hand...
hovers over 100 seconds to midnight
as of January 2022,
which apocalyptic prognostication
established by the Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists
maintained since 1947,
the clock quantifies a metaphor
for threats to humanity
from unchecked...
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Categories:
yiddish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Gone - VanishedWhen I was young, my father wrote poems, lovely poems, in Yiddish.
In one poem, he called me, his only son, his 'kadish'l, the one who would recite the Kaddish, the Prayer for the Deceased, for...
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Categories:
yiddish, death, father, grief, universe,
Form:
Free verse
This December 17th, 2021This December 17th, 2021...
Totally tubular fiction yup,
nevertheless I reflect
the year (arbitrarily plucked from misty past)
Santa Claus did not show up
courtesy imagination license
cruel as crippled poet pan handler
rattling his empty cup.
Though blink of time...
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Categories:
yiddish, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
One Alarm Fire At Highland Manor Apartmentsafter dark April 26th, 2022
Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via a wooden beam forced
to undergo strenuous labor)
unlike most elderly residents...
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Categories:
yiddish, adventure, angel, appreciation, april, confusion, fire, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Ber Horvitz Translations of Holocaust PoemsTranslations of Holocaust poems by Ber Horvitz aka Ber Horowitz
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray ...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes.
The birds have...
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Categories:
yiddish, holocaust, horror, race, racism, violence, war, world
Form:
Verse
Feliz Cumpleanos La Senora DunningFeliz cumpleaños la señora Dunning
Fifty seven orbitz didst elapse
circling with thee around the sun
and nary sign ye will collapse
anytime soon, I hoop fully reckon
untold massages nervously
await to cross proper synapse.
Foolhardy of me
(doubting Thomas) in previous
years...
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Categories:
yiddish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Mine Mortal Flesh Can Finally EscapeMine mortal flesh can finally escape...
Though mentally, physically,
and spiritually healthy... meth
hood dolled logy
hoop fully, ideally, joyfully...
unannounced twill be mine death
without forewarning thine
grand finale allocated breath
best surprise visit me
(without reason nor rhyme)
ye grim reaper, when...
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Categories:
yiddish, 11th grade, 12th grade, bereavement, blessing, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Memoirs of the Damaged-Part TwoI just want to take you back to that small frail girl,
The girl who sat in the shadows, in the corner of her room,
The girl who’d,
Never dare to cry,
Always wondered why,
Often wished to die.
The girl...
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Categories:
yiddish, recovery from..., girl, death, god, me, death,
Form:
Free verse
Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part4Firearms magazine offer manifold big bang for their buck,
many ear rational per son or daughter loves advocate, the late chuck
heston (now a shooting star occasionally visiting Earth from celestial vault)
...
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Categories:
yiddish, poverty, prayer, racism, silence, society, stress, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Violent Deadly Crime Spree Shoots Upward OneGun owners indiscriminately brandish
loaded firearms toward innocent victims,
and concomitantly excite
purported in accordance
with first amendment, relish
yet proliferation allowing
free ranging banshee dervish
sans weapons of mass destruction
(mainly innocent lives)
inures citizens to appear off fish
U.S., and self-important
becoming comfortably numb
at...
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Categories:
yiddish, anger, crazy, death, evil, goodbye, grave, hate,
Form:
Rhyme
Doomsday Clock January 2022Doomsday Clock January 2022...
the most recent tabulation
signaled one hundred seconds to midnight
A couple years ago
similarly titled poem I did write,
yet looms as harbinger unless
Homo sapiens can unite
one non Yiddish speaking
Ongematert wishing ye
fare thee well tonight
before...
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Categories:
yiddish, absence, age, anxiety, conflict, creation, death, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Telling White LiesTelling "White Lies"
My mother got born November
thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five
within poverty stricken household
of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest
(most mollycoddled) of four siblings,
experienced grinding poverty, no
matter maternal grandfather (Moishe
Kuritsky), a tailor he lacked drive
(and felt neutral...
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Categories:
yiddish, abuse, age, america, anger, betrayal, cry, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Bring Back the Horse and BuggyAutomobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, perhaps donate
major organ and/or entire body
to ease vehicular qualms
aha... methinks the missus could pose
as ventriloquist after...
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Categories:
yiddish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Dancing In the Rain,
A black cloud descends…. ...
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Categories:
yiddish,
Form:
Acrostic
Good News Came My Way Today February 21 2021 Courtesy Late FatherGood news came my way today February 21, 2021 courtesy late father
Papa - purportedly named
after paternal grandmother
Sadie, her mom's Yiddish name
Basia Brana (or Brandla),
she took two B letters and
found American boys' names
that kind of echoed
her...
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Categories:
yiddish, absence, appreciation, celebration, dad, death, dream, father
Form:
Rhyme
Shaggy Dog Limericks IiiThe Doberman Pinscher
A Doberman’s known to be picky
With friends so to greet one is tricky
To kiss is a bummer
Undoubtedly dumber
Is to sneak up and give one a hickey
The English Setter
The reason we call them a...
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Categories:
yiddish, animal, cute, dog, funny, humor, humorous, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Bastogne 1944Bastogne 1944
It was cold, so cold because they hadn’t given
us warm clothes for the winter, or to die in:
Germans and SS surrounded us and
the aroma of their hot food and Heil Hitler!
warm...
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Categories:
yiddish, loss, memory, men,
Form:
Free verse
Rendered Self Lame Courtesy Obsessive Compulsive BehaviorHandy dandy blues clues plain
all purpose favorite refrain
i.e. "impossible mission"
courtesy complimentary doppelganger
G.I. ("Government Issue", "General Issue",
or "Ground Infantry") Jane
in tandem with Alyson Chain
comes to the rescue attempting
to describe entrenched nonproductive
crippling psychological mindset ascertain
most any reader...
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Categories:
yiddish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Tormens HumanumI established a rapport
with the Sacred Cow
and it stepped all over my toes
the oil of anointment in my crankcase
I was limping worthy of an asterisk
an army of monks couldn't keep me pure
laughing all the...
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Categories:
yiddish, how i feel, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Nuttin Boot Mieskeit GoyimNuttin boot mieskeit goyim...
lives among this nebbish atheist of Jewish ancestry
Tongue in cheek Yiddish
humor to playfully scold
often time sounds
like a compliment
yours truly, (a run
of the mill Shlimazel) behold
only knows a smidgen,
yet grew up within household
where...
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Categories:
yiddish, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Mine Impossible Self Educating MissionMine Impossible Self Educating Mission...
Finds muss elf facing Lenovo
(external Macbook
Pro screen) whoosh'n
with all manner
of thoughts cascading,
...
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Categories:
yiddish, 12th grade, class, crush, grandfather, grandmother, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Passion Like My Feel of JazzPoetry and lines,
Wine and mines,
War stories and their lies,
Ladies and size,
My palm wine drinkard friend anid his love for fresh strong wine,
My heathen friend's love for angry roasted swines,
My parson friend and his love for...
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Categories:
yiddish, love, passion, peace, me, sweet, friend, love,
Form:
Ode
Greetings From Schwenksville, Pennsylvania Today March 1st, 202Greetings from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
today March 1st, 2021
I dashed (off the enclosed poem) yay
while safely secured within
white horse open sleigh
after reading following
pray lemme know if ye uttered oy vey.
Profound insights divulged
during our most recent family...
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Categories:
yiddish, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, brother, family,
Form:
Rhyme