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# Hanukkah
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/hanukkah/
- Published: 2025-12-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: If history is written by the winners, our victories, though biblical, are few. We celebrate them with familial dinners, where everybody has a point of view,
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

If history is written by the winners,  
our victories, though biblical, are few.  
We celebrate them with familial dinners,  
where everybody has a point of view,

and none of them the same. Our temple teachers  
will use a certain phrase, Tikkun Olam:  
Go, fix the world, for us, and all God's creatures.  
They cite the scriptures, back to Abraham,

remind us: you're the people of the Book.  
Raise toasts to Life, and bless the sacred wine.  
Remember: your forefathers undertook  
to challenge, to demand of the divine  
to bring joy to the world. So, so much joy…

A festival of lights. Each night, a toy.