Eight Days the Light Continued on Its Own
A poem for Hanukkah about each of us as oil lamps burning with infinite light. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Renaissance Castle. By Doug Maxwell. Music free to use at YouTube.
Careful When You Light the Chanukah Candles
A poem for Hanukkah about a possible relationship between rote ritual and faith. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Sharp Senses. By Ugonna Onyekwe. Music free to use at YouTube.
Cheerful Lights Dance Within Your Window
A poem for Hanukkah about the need, even in the midst of holiday cheer, never to forget the horrors of the Holocaust. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Elegy. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
What Is There in the Darkness to Receive
A Hanukkah poem questioning the existence and nature of God while wishing to celebrate Creation. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: No. 6 In My Dreams. By Esther Abrami. Music free to use at YouTube.
Before Earth, Water, and Air Is Fire
A poem for Hanukkah about the elemental fire of Creation within us. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: E Minor Prelude. By Frederic Chopin. Music free to use at YouTube.
And Thou Shalt Love
A poem for Hanukkah about light, darkness, and faith. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Elegy. By Wayne Jones. Music free to use at YouTube.
Blessed Are Those Who Doubt the Word of God
A poem for Hanukkah about the need to practice one’s faith with an open mind. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Falling Rain. By Myuu. Music free to use at YouTube.
Blessings Are Precisely Everyday
A philosophical Hanukkah poem about light and darkness as a single, indivisible gift. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Gymnopedie No. 1. By Erik Satie. Music free to use at YouTube.
Have a Happy Hanukkah2
A Happy Holidays poem to a child of mixed Jewish-Christian heritage.
How Explain the Miracle of Light
A Hanukkah poem about the miracle of light. © by Nicholas Gordon Audio and Video Music: Wander. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/howexp.html. For more Hanukkah poems, go to htt
Christmas and Hanukkah on the Same Night
A Christmas poem about Hanukkah and Christmas being on the same night. © by Nicholas Gordon Audio and Video Music: Holiday Brass Ensemble. By Doug Maxwell. Music free to use at YouTube. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/.h