18 CHAI - HAIKU
- Did you know a Jew,
If she has a poet's heart,
Can write haiku, too?
- Under the kippah,
Plastered on a shining pate,
Strands still sprouting there.
- Shabbas flames flicker,
Sheltered eyes and open hands,
An uplifted heart.
- Red shabbas roses,
blossoms gathered to bouquets,
Beautiful Sabbath.
- Potato kugel -
Wet or dry variety?
Jewish conundrum.
- Is lox "is" or "are"?
Salty, delicious morsels,
Fish grammar game.
- Warm mikvah waters
Wash between fingers and toes,
Cleansing the spirit.
- Diaphanous wings;
Angels hover in Eden.
Farewell to Adam.
- Soy matza ball soup?
Jewish vegetarian
Guests not wanted here.
- Gingerly, she touched,
"Oh Zayde, you hair is 'broke'!"
This old bald head.
- Long, dark brown tresses
Curling near the graying brows;
Bless this young shaytel.
- Three stars in the sky,
Havdalah's bright flame is doused
Time for the movies.
- Boughs on the sukkah,
Recalling ancestors past.
Chandelier inside.
- Eight flickering lights -
One more to serve the others,
End of Hannukah.
- Well known Jewish sons,
Bob Dylan, Freud, Harpo Marx,
Rich and the famous.
- Wit and wisdom joined,
We sit at the mentor's feet,
A zaddik is born.
- Best storyteller
Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Gifts from a great mind.
- Bitter yom tov herbs,
Maror bites and burns the tongue,
Like loshen hora.
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© Janice Fitzgerald Davis
Harrisburg, PA
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