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Yiddish Poems - Poems about Yiddish

Premium Member Around the World
... One day I took the subway and I went around the world From one car to another a new nation’s flag unfurled The train took off from Brooklyn and I hopped on at Times Square and by the time th......

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Categories: yiddish, language,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Concetta Franconero
... This beautiful vocalist who gained huge popularity, entered this world in Newark, New Jersey. She was born in 1937 to an Italian-American family. "Connie Francis" was a name suggested by......

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Categories: yiddish, death, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Multinational
... If it takes a dollop of Dutch courage to French kiss an English rose would it make a lily-livered Indian giver look down his nose but with Yiddish chutzpah as a Spanish fly on the wall......

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Categories: yiddish, fun, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deep in Prayer
... O'er Jerusalem's hills the sun sinks lower, lower 'til 'tis but a memory Horizons dim 'til the promise of today is extinguished by darkness' sway Stars appe......

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Categories: yiddish, jewish, prayer, sky, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Once again, yours truly takes poetic license
...Once again, yours truly takes poetic license. Whenever the missus irks me or complains... I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin whereby......

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Categories: yiddish, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse



Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language
...Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language When alive colorful turns of phrases uttered courtesy my father or mother whose ability to describe a situation perfectly verbalized......

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Categories: yiddish, 6th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse
Afternoon Bride Calls
...Afternoon bride calls: darling, each fire gets him in jail. Kiss loosely, my necktied octopus. Promises quietly rustle; speechless television undulates: voluptuously wavering X-rated yoga, Ze......

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Categories: yiddish, betrayal, crush, heartbreak, husband,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Blooma Pie
...Blooma Pie Humble Slice, Nimble Listener, Blooma’s a wonder, Aishes Chayil! Middos Thrice Nice, Her Yiddish Kopf is Wiser, Avoids Goyish Blunder, She heaves a sigh, At ridiculous whys, Her ......

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Categories: yiddish, birthday, jewish, wife,
Form: Rhyme
his December 17th 2024
...This December 17th, 2024... alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable th......

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Categories: yiddish, absence, america, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Put Me Through This
... One moment, my life in the balance The next, feeling quite well Why, O Why, put me, Dear God through this kind of hell… Yet I guess you’ve been with me right from t......

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Categories: yiddish, appreciation, god, jewish, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Sister and I
...My sister and I are as different As spinach and blueberry pie, Yet together we laugh, Which reduces, by half, All the ways our distinctions apply. Even now, in New York for a visit, Where the......

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Categories: yiddish, sister,
Form: Rhyme
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
...I live in a world of brutal ice and cold Despite the temperature being five below... these fingered handy limbs awash with profuse sweat dripping palms analogous to a bloody busted gushing wat......

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Categories: yiddish, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse
How Clean
...Today I cleaned for hours Getting rid of mostly dust. If I did this more often, I’d feel less worn out, I trust. Yet unlike many others, Who have homes that sparkly shine, No one would ever ......

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Categories: yiddish, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yonah Ownah of the Eruv!
... Yonah, Ownah of the Eruv! Geo. Washington has the same birthday, Like George the Father of our Country, R’ Ribiat & Baila are blessed by many, Even TA’s Gabbai “By Jove!” Truly Baila’s roc......

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Categories: yiddish, birthday, friend, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Waffle House
... The door rings, I look up, someone with someone else, back to my eggs and hash browns. The door rings Spatulas knell the griddle. The skinny cook yells in Kentucky Yiddish. Flapjacks slap in......

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Categories: yiddish, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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