Love
A Sonnet by Elan Kirshenbaum
A feeling which you can feel all day long,
Inside your heart a feeling rests its peace,
A feeling which will break you into song,
Love is a feeling that will never cease.
Love can be found in darkest of the times
And also in the brightest place on Earth,
A feeling which will break you into rhymes,
Love goes to death but always starts at birth.
Do you believe love is not hard to find?
Or does it take devotion and much thought?
Love must be sought without an empty mind,
Love must be found because it can’t be bought.
Don’t worry, love will find you soon enough.
You must stay focused; keep on fighting tough.
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Hope and Faith
A Holocaust Poem by Elan Kirshenbaum
What is hope?
What is faith?
They’re the feelings
that will keep you living
Even in times of great
sorrow.
Hope. Faith.
When the Nazis took over
in 1939,
Many people lost their
hope and faith.
It was partly due to this
That they didn’t
live another day.
Hope. Faith.
Evicted from their towns
And forced onto cattle
cars,
The ones with hope and
faith continued to live
While those who gave up
perished.
Hope. Faith.
They were given numbers,
Tattooed into their skins,
A mark that made them
feel inhuman.
But those with hope and
faith lived on.
Hope. Faith.
Backbreaking labor and
hardly any food to eat,
Illnesses and epidemics
sprang upon them fast.
With the thought on their
minds that they might be next to be gassed,
Those who continued to
believe survived.
Hope. Faith.
And then it was all finally
over
And they were all finally
free.
The ones with hope and
faith did not only survive the war,
But they lived on forever.
Hope. Faith.
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Haikus
By Dovi Muchnik
Here are four haikus, each three lines in length:
Food
is wonderful,
Delicious
and tasty,
My favorite?
cake!
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Pie
is good to eat,
It
is good morning and night,
Yummy
in your gut.
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School's
a crazy place,
It’s
work all day and all night,
We've
got to escape!
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Gameboy,
a handheld,
I
play with it the time here,
Can't
play too much though.
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Limericks
By Jonathan Goldman
Here are three limerick poems, each five lines in length:
There
once an ugly old frog,
Who
was self-proclaimed king of the bog,
When
a heron, wading near,
Switched
its neck to high gear,
WHOOSH!
The frog got away at a jog.
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There
was a young bochur from Queens,
Came
to Rambam one day in his jeans,
Rav
Yotav said, "Oy!"
What
a scandal, Vuh voy!
Detention!
He hasn't learned beans!
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Today,
when I woke, snow was deep,
I
wanted to go back to sleep,
But
they didn't close school,
Which
I thought was quite cruel,
How
I wish I was still counting sheep.
