The Hanukkah holiday can include traditional prayers, songs, hymns and of course, the Hanukkah poems. Reciting Hanukkah poems is a way to celebrate and commemorate the Hanukkah holiday. Hanukkah poems cover everything from holy rhymes on lighting of the Menorah candles to the educative and informative lines about the whole essence of the Hanukkah holiday.

Hanukkah poems can be in one of several poetic forms:

1. Acrostic (a poem where the first letter in each line form a word or message when it is read in a sequence)
2. Alphabet (a poem with five lines that create a picture, mood or feeling)
3. Ballad (a poem that tells a story and has a repeated refrain)
4. Ballade (a poem with three stanzas of seven to ten lines and a final stanza of four or five)
5. Cinquain (a poem with five lines, where the first line has one word, usually the title, the second line has two words that elaborate on the title, the third line has three words that describe the action, the fourth line has four words that express the feeling of the poem, and the fifth line has one word which brings back the title)
6. Couplet (a poem made up of two lines with rhyming stanzas)http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/

Here are some popular Hanukkah poems and also few lines from them:

1. Careful When You Light the Chanukah Candles by Ludwig Senfl

• Careful when you light the Chanukah candles!
• Have some water nearby just in case
• A candle teeters at some crazy angle,
• Not having been quite twisted into place..."

Excerpt from Careful When You Light the Chanukah Candles by Ludwig Senflhttp://www.poemsforfree.com/carefu.html

1. By the Eighth Day There Was No Longer Need by J.S. Bach.

• By the eighth day there was no longer need
• Of proof that love had superceded law.
• Nor could one longer doubt the fuel-less flame,
• Nor longer not revere the holy name...

Excerpt from By the Eighth Day There Was No Longer Need by J.S. Bach.http://www.poemsforfree.com/bythe8.html

1. Chanukah Itself's the Miracle by Dimitri Shostakovich

• Chanukah itself's the miracle:
• How could we remember all those years,
• Aliens lost upon a shoreless sea,
• Not only scattered--battered, shattered, tattered,...

Excerpt from Chanukah Itself's the Miracle by Dimitri Shostakovichhttp://www.poemsforfree.com/chanuk.html

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