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Shtetl Poems - Poems about Shtetl


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... Eastern Europe’s shtetl life romantically recalled Fiddler on the Roof beloved by all Recreated today in Boro Park,* modernity! *a neighborhood ......

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Categories: shtetl, history, jewish, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Sex For You
...Sex for you is all I have. Just a simple title. The chance to give you all I am just to keep you vital. A pleasure we could do without for just a little mettle. But really who're we running f......

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Categories: shtetl, analogy, bangla, cute love,
Form: Quatrain



Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im 1st Sentence
...Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico), whose acts (along Seuss iz Zacks Fifth Avenue) brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville, and then the Silver Screen adlibbed......

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Categories: shtetl, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 5
...she left me defenseless again for reasons that cannot be spoken but that can be further diagrammed worthy of forensic dissection deep into the cauliflower folds branching like rivers of lightnin......

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Categories: shtetl, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im
...Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico) whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and ransacked skits zoid mater......

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Categories: shtetl, adventure, celebrity, class, day,
Form: Free verse



Ich Such Dos Stetl/ Ich Suche Das Schtetl /I N Search of the Shtetl/
...Ich such dos shtetl Wos mer wird zogn wos mer baj zejn vergongenhejt nich reizn, wos mer zogt, wo sejn di wolkns, wos is geblibn vun de zejt mer hot nich mer gehert. Mer zogn leben, gezejtn zo......

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Categories: shtetl, epicme,
Form: Prose Poetry
Jerusalem
...White-brilliant-dazzling, limestone houses in the morning light between cypresses and laurels, the fragrance of the East passing through narrow lanes of the Old City. The Arab merchants praisi......

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Categories: shtetl, urbanold, me, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
In Search of the Shtetl
...What will they say, what about the past, no travelling, so they say, where are the clouds, what is left of time, nothing more was heard. We say we are alive, the ocean got its tide, as they cal......

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Categories: shtetl, historyme,
Form: Prose Poetry
Stockbridge
...Last year’s alarm clock by my beside silently, vigilantly ticked away until 4:02 AM In the hour of Platonic picture-perfect darkness kept company solely by the bloodshot red Of the alarm clock rea......

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Categories: shtetl, health, history, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things