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Manischewitz Wine

...Every year for Passover,
There’s Manischewitz wine.
It’s Concord Grape and super sweet;
For holiday, it’s fine.

Some people will not drink it,
Since it’s syrupy and thick, 
But for Seders eve...

Categories: seders, appreciation, drink, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme

Matzo

...
It's unleavened bread
served at Passover seders
symbolic of haste.
Square-shaped and corrugated
it looks like a big cracker.
...

Categories: seders, food, religious,
Form: Tanka

Passover 5780

...Refresh, Revive, Rejuvenate
  at the Passover Seders
    Festival of Freedom
  followed by the peace of the Sabbath

Three days to pause, to tell the story
  to delve into its myriad meanings
...

Categories: seders, celebration, happiness, holiday, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Two Seders

...At Seder 1 we helped prepare
The soup and matzoh balls served there,
The hard-boiled eggs and chicken dressed
In farfel flakes, which tastes the best.

At tables set to serve sixteen,
With kids...

Categories: seders, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme

Passover Tanka

...The feast is now over
The four glasses of wine are gone 
Memories live on 
From the seders of the past 
Springtime brings us such great joy!...

Categories: seders, jewish,
Form: Tanka

Manischewitz

...Once a year, for one week straight,
A beer I will decline.
Instead, I will indulge in 
Manischewitz kosher wine.

If you have never tried it,
Well, your life is not complete,
But you’d sure su...

Categories: seders, holiday, wine,
Form: Rhyme

Passover Memories

...Tonight we’ll sit around the table
While we’re reminiscing
Both about the Israelites
And those whom we are missing.

Every Seder takes me back
To those when I was young.
I can hear my Zadie’s voice,
...

Categories: seders, holiday, nostalgia, fish, cousin,
Form: Rhyme