Hanukkah (Chanukah) Poems for Free
by Nicholas Gordon

Hanukkah poems, Hanukkah poetry, Chanukah poems, Chanukah poetry, free for personal or non-commercial use.
All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon. For Hanukkah stories, click on Hanukkah Stories for Free.

• And Thou Shalt Love
• Be Comfortable with Doubt, with Death, with Darkness
• Because One Hundred and Thirteen Generations
• Bees Swarm Along the Fragile Edge of Darkness
• Because All Things Are Made of Light
• Because Each One of Us Is Equally
• Before Chaos, There Was Perfect Light
• Before Earth, Water, and Air Is Fire
• Before You Light the Candles, Say the Blessing
• Beginning Thursday, There Will Be No More Reasons
• Behind the Act Is Always the Perception
• Being and Becoming Are Creations
• Being in Eternity and Time
• Being Is a Point, Without Dimension
• Being Is an Unrequited Passion
• Being Is Itself the Fuel-less Flame
• Bereft of Light, One Stumbles in the Darkness
• Best Believe in Miracles
• Bless the Darkness, Bless the Light
• Blessed Are Those both In and Out of Time
• Blessed Are Those Who Can Embrace the Darkness
• Blessed Are Those Who Doubt the Word of God
• Blessed Are Those Who Dwell in Utter Darkness
• Blessings Are Not Only of the Light
• Blessings Are Precisely Everyday
• Blithe Fingers Know the Psalms of Adoration
• Break upon the Cold, White Sands of Darkness
• But Darkness Reveals What We Cannot See
• By Day Each Soul Must Walk Within Its Shadow
• By the Eighth Day There Was No Longer Need
• Can One Celebrate a Miracle
• Candles Are a Gift of Light
• 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
• Christmas and Hanukkah on the Same Night
• Clearly There Were Jews and There Were Jews
• Eight Days the Light Continued on Its Own
• Given the Nature of Reality
• God Knows the Price of Tuning Forks
• Hanukkah and Christmas Go Together
• Hanukkah Menorahs Are like Love
• Hanumas Is Something Strange Indeed
• Happiness Comes Wholly from the Heart
• Happiness Depends on Lighting Lights
• Happy Candles Dance with Light
• Happy Hanukkah, Dear Child
• Happy, Happy Hanukkah
• Have a Happy Hanukkah
• Have a Happy Hanukkah2
• 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 Light Have Come from Nothing
• How Might One Be a Harbinger of Light
• How Odd to See the Lamps Still Burning
• Isn't It Nice to Celebrate Twice
• On Hanukkah, the First Dark Night
• Santa Lights the Hanukkah Lights
• So Who Said It Was Easy
• So You Want to Make Your Living in the Theater
• Swinging Low in Chariots
• Three Holidays! Hooray! Hooray!
• Time to Light the Hanukkah Lights
• What Is There in the Darkness

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

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