Short Synagogue Poems

Lord a Rabbi said Africans
have no culture
Does he not know his religion
is an African religion

Synagogue Of Satan...

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He opened the book
In Isaiah he looked
And then, proclaimed the word-
All the synagogue heard,
His prophetic watchword

Full story @ Luke 4:16-21...

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Another forty-eight hour holiday 
Eat, drink, sleep, go to synagogue and pray
  Consume piles of meat
  And desserts oh-so-sweet
I'll start my diet tomorrow, OK?...

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Frog Who Hugged a Synagogue

Minora candles were on long log,
Had been found by famous frog;
Cream of crop;
Liked to hop;
Did drank grog in a synagogue

Jim Horn...

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Man of hate attacks 

The Lord's holiest temple 

Faithful's soul depart!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
      29 October 2018



* Dedicated to the eleven victims of Pittsburg synagogue shooting .
God bless their souls!...

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Left the Synagogue
Went to Simons house
His Mother-in Law
Had a high fever
Jesus rebuked it

The people came
With much sickness
He layed his hands
And healed them all

Demons left
They shouted
Son of God

My Love
My Life

Healed...

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When I met him 
his hair was grey
And his wisdom shone forth 
like a beacon 
He knew that Shabbes 
is an important 
part of Judaism
He palyed guitar 
and led us in prayer 
He loved his family, his synagogue, his church
Gone from the Earth 
Rabbi Harold Smith...

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Take your gun to a place of worship
And take the lives of 11 people
Whose crime that day 
Was to worship God at a synagogue 

Hold the police off until you are trapped
Then give yourself up
When they ask you why
You say in your best voice
All these Jews need to die. 

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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The Sabbath comes in so soon
  Unlike lazy Fridays in June
A light lunch, say grace, turn around
  The sun on it's way out of town

A long night is a gift for sleeping  
  Sabbath rest, all of us keeping
But once again, short is the day
  Synagogue, meal and snooze ~
           ~ Goodbye, Saturday...

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When Kermit the Frog
Found love at his synagogue
It was unexpected
How instantly they connected

The lovely Miss Piggy
Posing right next to Twiggy
Strategically waving her doily
Batted her eyelashes coyly



Submitted on January 12, 2019 for contest CLERIHEW COUPLES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY sponsored by CAROLYN DEVONSHIRE...

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God Help Us When Afraid

God help us, when we became afraid;
Through problems and fears will wade;
Experience sorrow,
Today and tomorrow,
Caused by sinners  who have strayed.

Jim Horn

More people harmed in a synagogue
in Pittsburg. More to worry about.
Bauer obviously is German and may
be of Jewish ancestry. Another hate
crime....

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Students drop by 
    and hand in their papers
Chinese, Blacks, Israelis, Moslems 
    The job is interesting but does not pay well 
   Still, after years of telephone sales
 it is a blessing  
    working with people of different cultures 
   I miss my woman of a different culture 
Still - I will head to 
     synagogue on Friday 
  AS ALWAYS...

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The other day in synagogue 
   I thought to myself 
there isn't any God 
What am I doing here? 
But I stayed anyway 
Let me explain why:
  I - and many of you out there in
the darkness are 
     addicted to writing verse 
Poetry cannot be explained  by reason alone
   Where does it come from? 
A whisper in the breeze 
    can tell you that
 Write on, friends!...

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{Hey, Where'd My Audience Go?}


Broke, Julie became a sexy stripper
Soon her bank account was pretty chipper
  Her boyfriend treated her well
  Then they moved to Israel
Julie's first performance was Yom Kippur





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Note: Yom Kippur is the Holiest Day of the
Jewish year.  Over 90% of Israelis are in
synagogue and fasting on Yom Kippur
night and day....

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For you there was new epoch
beyond the synagogue
when in religious solemnity
you converted to Christianity.

You wanted to support
King and the Church 
but you were also open
for political change.

Your trophy was not only
in your political philosophy 
equal with propaganda
and your satires

on profligate oligarchy,
sectarianism, collusion,
of the Ministers
and their illustrious illusion....

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In the world's biggest collection
of pogs, there is not one pog
As beautiful as my dog
Nor has there ever been a hog
As beautiful as my dog
Nor e'er a frog upon its log
Not even its youngest pollywog
As comely as my dog.

And so I make my dog eggnog
I write about her in my blog
I take her with me when I jog
Drunk on grog, all agog,
Lost in fog, slipped a cog,
I snuck into the synagogue
With my beautiful dog....

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When I read scripture,
pass by a temple,
synagogue or church,
a public meeting space,
a sacred nightly pub place,

Do I look first for what God hates,
or why and how and when and where S/He loves?

Do I look for reasons 
to explode more profitable secular bullets
or focus in on seasons
regathering His/Her sacred synergetic ballast,
resilient resident ballots cast 
for EarthTribe's long-term happier healthier wealth?...

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Yours was the crown of the Synagogue
after you converted to Catholicism
for living Christianity
is the fulfillment of the promise.

Christianity presupposes the Synagogue
and a vision of Jesus you had
opened your mind and your heart.
Yours was the wisdom and smartness

as you became the doctorate professor of philosophy -
Chief rabbi, for you Synagogue, 
which was the promise
and Christianity cannot exist without the other....

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Now why weepest thou, O my heavy crestfallen soul?
Visions of pure agony hast cast thou into a deep trance
For the synagogue of Satan sits in the valley of Eschol,
and Jesus Christ, the King of Zion, they do not romance
The doctrines of Baal they've greedily swallowed whole,
as songs of salvation aren't accompanied with a holy dance
The grapes of Eschol will turn into the grapes of wrath:
See the road to New Jerusalem revealed as a fiery path...

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The koala's spiritual beliefs
Are difficult to assess.
He attends no mosque or synagogue
And never does confess.
He's not a cannibal and so
Communion is appalling,
And as for gospel singing,
It's just so much caterwauling.
I suppose he's an agnostic,
Yet he often stops and ponders
The reason for this universe
And all its many wonders.
And so we must be satisfied
With this insight that's been slipped us,
While he goes back to being cute
And munching eucalyptus....

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The shofar fills the synagogue
With sounds which once were heard
On ancient plains, where ancestors
Were possibly interred.

Each Rosh Hashanah, patiently,
I wait to hear those notes
Come pouring through the twisted horns
Of sacrificial goats.

Those resonating plaintive blares
Both echo and resound,
Reminding us another year
Has somehow rolled around.

I’m not at all religious
But just once a year I go
To a temple where I’ll get to hear
That mournful shofar blow....

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