Jewish Poems for Free
by Nicholas Gordon

Jewish poems, Jewish poetry, free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon. For Hanukkah stories, click here.
For Passover stories, click here.

• A Multitude of Gods
• Become the Person That You Want to Be (Bar- and Bat Mitzvah)
• Before One Reads the Torah (Bar- and Bat Mitzvah)
• Caleb Makes It to the Promised Land
• Every Friday Night I Bless My Children
• Holocausts Are Sui Generis
• My Home Is Here, America
• I Bless the Lord on Going Out
• I Feel You in the Hollow of My Heart
• Time After Time They Come to Destroy Us
• We Once Lived in Israel, You and I
• When Yisrael Came Reeling from the Ashes

Hanukkah

• And Thou Shalt Love
• Because One Hundred and Thirteen Generations
• Before You Light the Candles, Say the Blessing
• Beginning Thursday, There Will Be No More Reasons
• Bereft of Light, One Stumbles in the Darkness
• Best Believe in Miracles
• Blessed Are Those Who Doubt the Word of God
• By the Eighth Day There Was No Longer Need
• Candles Dance on Hanukkah
• Candles Dance on Their Menorah
• Candles Serve as Replicas of Lamps
• Careful When You Light the Chanukah Candles
• Chanukah Itself's the Miracle
• Cheerful Lights Dance Within Your Window
• Clearly There Were Jews and There Were Jews
• Eight Days the Light Continued on Its Own
• Hanukkah Menorahs Are like Love
• Happiness Depends on Lighting Lights
• Happy Candles Dance with Light
• Happy Hanukkah, Dear Child
• Happy, Happy Hanukkah
• Have a Happy Hanukkah
• Hope Is Not the Creature of Sensation
• How Beautiful the Hanukkah Lights
• How Can We Believe in Miracles
• How Can We Believe that the Creator
• How Explain the Miracle of Light
• How Long Can We Remember an Event
• How Might One Be a Harbinger of Light
• How Odd to See the Lamps Still Burning
• On Hanukkah, the First Dark Night
• Time to Light the Hanukkah Lights

High Holidays

• Holiness and Faith Are the Rewards
• How Might I, in Faith, Do as You Ask
• Ismail and Yitzhak Are Half-Brothers
• O Lord, Our Hope and Our Redeemer
• Reason Ought Not Be the Enemy
• Reason Says, of Course, that There's No Book
• Remember as You Scour Your Soul for Sin
• Remember the Utility of Shame
• Remorse Is Not a Synonym for Shame
• Repentence Is Quite Different from Regret
• Return Each Year to Test the Ancient Waters
• Revelation Leads to Revolution
• Revelation Strikes You as Absurd
• Revenge Is Often Taken in the Mind
• Righteousness Ought Not Be for One's Self
• Ritual Recalls the Revelation
• Rosh Hashanah Opens to the Page
• Rosh Hashanah Opens Up the Book
• Ye of Little Faith, You're Welcome Here
• Year After Year, You Promise to Atone
• Yearning Is a Function of Atonement
• Years Pass, the Sins Remain
• Yes, There Is a Lot One Need Atone for
• Yom Kippur Remains a Day of Morning
• You Are Not, Will Not, Do Not What You Dream
• You Cannot Get Away from Being Plural
• You Cannot Think the Book of Life Will Close
• You Pray Not for Yourself Alone but All
• You Pray to Be Included in the Book
• You Wonder Whether Fate Is Accidental
• You'd Like a Shot at Serious Redemption

Passover

• Here We Have a Story for the World
• How Best Can We Remember We Were Slaves
• How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea
• Palates Can Be Palettes of the Soul
• Palpably, You Are in This Room
• Part of Being Jewish Is a Choice
• Pass Over Me, Dear Lord, Please Pass Me By
• Passion Is the Wine, and Love, the Glass
• Passover Celebrates That Glorious Day
• Passover Seders Are like the Night Sky
• People Are a People by Design
• Perhaps a Meal Ought Not Bear So Much Weight
• Perhaps This Is No Time for Telling Tales
• Perhaps Your Only Ritual Is the Seder
• Please Be Assured that What You Read Is True
• Pour Yourself like Wine into the Glass
• Praised Be Those Who Don't Believe the Tale
• Pretend There Were No Memories
• Why Do I Remain in Exile

Purim

• Please Remember What Has Happened Here
• Praised Be Those Who Remember to Remember
• Purified of Arabs or of Jews
• 'Purim' Means 'Lots,' Which Wicked Haman Drew

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Nicholas Gordon, P.O. Box 3043, Fort Lee, NJ 07024.

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