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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JEWS - WOMEN Matches Found: 345 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 19-NOV-42, by DEBORAH ESTHER SCHIFTER Poem Source First Line: The stench, it seemed, had been there forever. %the jews of Last Line: Then they were told to enter the shower Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women 1932, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Harry saul wraps the leather straps of tefillin boxes around Last Line: She makes the man oatmeal and coffee Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews - Women 1940, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: I hated %mother's tennis dress Last Line: My german clown %my wind-up doll Subject(s): Jews - Women A MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism ABUTILON IN BLOOM, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cultivated inside out of the bounds Last Line: We must burst forth with orange flowers %with savage hues of our captivity Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women ACT OF BREAD, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: That happy multiplying Last Line: And gave it to the cold november morning Subject(s): Jews - Women ADVICE FROM NANA, by JUDYTH HILL Poem Source First Line: Always wear your clothes like they have only been yours Last Line: I always found good men by their smell Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 1. TWO ROOMS, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: I can still see nanny bending Last Line: And laughter without forgetting %the presence of sorrow Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 2. ONE-EYED JOKER, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: After pappy died, nanny followed Last Line: Nanny would life her teacup %and tell me a story Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AN ORIENTAL MAIDEN, by J. O. JENKYNS Poem Text First Line: Thou fairest one of judah's daughters Last Line: And bid me not away Subject(s): Hearts; Jews; Jews - Women; Love; Judaism ANCESTOR, by FRANCES RODMAN Poem Source First Line: Susan was the wild one Last Line: Stares back with eyes like mine Subject(s): Jews - Women ANNA, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: No one asked anna for stories of russia Last Line: A mother could love her only daughter Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ANNA, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, by MERILEE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: A left eye that squints Last Line: So when can I do it again? Subject(s): Jews - Women ANTONIO'S NIGHT, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: I whisper %'yo soy marrano' Last Line: Back in new mexico %where I pick peaches %and raise pigs Subject(s): Jews - Women ANYUTA, by ANNE COREY Poem Source First Line: My grandmother anyuta %the woman I am named for Last Line: I hear anyuta's screams. %her screams Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women APRIL, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: It is april %night Last Line: And catches his breath Subject(s): Jews - Women ASK THE MOTHER OF THE GROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women AUNT IRIS' WEDDING, by SAUCI S. CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Except for just a moment Last Line: Smothered the flames against her breast Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women B'NOT SARAH, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: At the b'not sarah synagogue Last Line: Earthward %from the highest sephira Subject(s): Jews - Women BABIES, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Nowadays they wear Last Line: And make them stay put; always %all over the back of my mind Subject(s): Jews - Women BAR TALKING, by GAYLE SPANIER RAWLINGS Poem Source First Line: Long ago - one time, many times Last Line: Left over from our %forgotten dreams Subject(s): Jews - Women BE HAPPY, O GROOM, by ABRAHAM BEN HALFON Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BE HAPPY, O GROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BEDECKEN, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Whose smile is that? Last Line: He puts the veil down over her face Subject(s): Jews - Women BEGGAR IN THE SUBWAY, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The subway beggar crouches against the token booth Last Line: To look for sabbath inside the aquarium windows %of a public shelter Subject(s): Jews - Women BELONGING, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: My father belonged %first to his native place Last Line: Where he belonged %the most Subject(s): Jews - Women BELOVED OF THE HEART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BETA ISRAEL, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Isolate sepia people dying slowly Last Line: To whom will you teach your jewish ways, %strangers as you are even to your own kin? Subject(s): Jews - Women BIBLE STUDENTS IN THE SUKKAH, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: What does it matter Last Line: And one always had a story, %and one always said, be serious Subject(s): Jews - Women BIRDSONG & SUN POEM FOR WINTER, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: A sparrow hops in the lilac on the arab side of our house Last Line: There are also the motionless junipers Subject(s): Jews - Women BLESSED BE THE EVENING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BLESSING ON YOUR HEAD, HAND, AND FOOT, by NANCY BERG Poem Source First Line: Grandma and grandpa %get lost at ellis island Last Line: Filter out through the window screen %and perch on the branch of a tree Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BOILED WINE, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: My brother's father-in-law kept boiled wine Last Line: I serve not wine but coffee to my guests, and pray %my children not be taken for my sins Subject(s): Jews - Women BRAIDING MY DAUGHTER'S HAIR, by MARCY SHEINER Poem Source First Line: This is what we waited for Last Line: My fingers fly, over and through, %over and through Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BRAIDS, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: Friday morning %I braid my hair Last Line: Here is a challah from tels %taste it Subject(s): Jews - Women BRIDE'S SONG AGAINST DEMONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: High on a pillow sits with bandaged hands & feet her double sits beside her Last Line: The custom of the girls Subject(s): Brides;jews - Women;mysticism - Judaism BRUSHING, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Your arrival was always with cashews Last Line: I dream about somebody %brushing and combing us Subject(s): Jews - Women BUBBIE, MOMMY, WEIGHT WATCHERS AND ME, by BARBARA NOREEN DINNERSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The lady up front was rosalie, she used to be fat, feh Last Line: I am a strong proud jewish woman from pesant stock Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women CACTUS, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pot itself was half the story Last Line: It is always of importance to see %the things aesthetical' Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women CALIFORNIA SISTER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The thing about you and me Last Line: Some day we'll hold each other, woman friend %if the world survives Subject(s): Jews - Women CARAVAN OF YAMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women CHILDHOOD MEMORY, by IRENE GRIMBERG Poem Source First Line: The place was poland warsaw Last Line: I wish that I could wear one Subject(s): Jews - Women COMING DOWN FROM HER FATHER'S HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women COMING HOME, by EVA REISMAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that you appeared at my side Last Line: And the whole universe will sing Subject(s): Jews - Women COMPANIONS, by MICHELLE BENDER Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the park Last Line: And the sundial %gathers shadows Subject(s): Jews - Women CONFESSION, by JUDITH HEINEMAN Poem Source First Line: I have gone to the genealogy room Last Line: Not that I could do %anything differently Subject(s): Jews - Women CONFESSION TO MOTHER SARAH, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: You were luckier than I Last Line: Stand on my own mt. Moriah %about to join you Subject(s): Jews - Women CONTINUING, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Each one had defenses, they said Last Line: To say how lonely it is here %on earth %and how the nights are cold Subject(s): Jews - Women CONTRACT, by SHERRY REITER Poem Source First Line: He lay on the hospital bed Last Line: You're with me, I replied Subject(s): Jews - Women CORSET, by MYRA SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The corset of my bubbe annie %held her to the feminine Last Line: When I was grown I wanted fat like hers %rushing over me as unrestrained as water Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women COULD WE HAVE BEEN HER?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Could we have been her Last Line: On a night of glittering bones? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Terror CROSSING, by PATRICIA MOGER VARSHAVTCHIK Poem Source First Line: I have searched, delved, studied Last Line: As I choose my name, %the water of the lakes rests nearby, %sparkling Subject(s): Jews - Women CROUP, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: At night %in our bed Last Line: I'll be so good %you won't be sorry Subject(s): Jews - Women CUTTING THE JEWISH BRIDES'S HAIR, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It's to possess more than the skin %that those old world jews Last Line: But this little amputation %will shift the balance of the universe Subject(s): Jews - Women DAUGHTER OF THE MORI, by SHALOM SHABAZI Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DAYENI, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Rebono, %would it not have been sufficient Last Line: Who need me to %hand grind and hand bake %matzas out of oats? Subject(s): Jews - Women DAYS ARE PASSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DEPRESSION, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: Bees celebrate indian summer Last Line: The way I close my eyes and wait for the lights %to come back on Subject(s): Jews - Women DESIRE, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Desire %comes like the sea wind Last Line: The same scent rises %from both lovers lying %curled on our sides like harbors Subject(s): Jews - Women DOE, MY YOUNGER DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DON'T ACT SPOILED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women EARRINGS, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: A bialik tradition back home was Last Line: The empty holes %grown shut Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women EDEN, by JACQUELINE LAPIDUS Poem Source First Line: Ever since I discovered %lilith, things Last Line: Adam %notices but says nothing %this knowledge of our power %sticks in his throat Subject(s): Jews - Women EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now? Last Line: Everyone silent, moving - take my hand. Speak to me Subject(s): Jews - Women ELEGY, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: June, %and you are gone at ninety-one Last Line: That sabbath candle at no one's table. Grandma, %who will say the evening blessing? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ELEGY, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: We were bridesmaids in the same wedding Last Line: Through a new ritual you went on %marrying - marrying Subject(s): Jews - Women ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: And now - is the pain gone? Last Line: That I am beginning to open the book Subject(s): Jews - Women EMIGRE JEWESS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Farther than the west wind I am going Subject(s): Jews - Women; Women's Rights ENEMY IS THE DARK., by PHYLLIS KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Last Line: He gave me cool water in a yahrzeit glass Subject(s): Jews - Women ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: New on the block Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women ERASURES, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: I'm beginning to forget names, faces Last Line: As I listen to my breath - %the oldest sound I know Subject(s): Jews - Women ESTHER, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: Sweet jewish maid, crown'd with a monarch's / love Last Line: We bring to thee. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism EVE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep over me you bent your head Last Line: You bent your head deep over me Subject(s): Bible; Jews - Women FAMILY, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin - she %must have been in that Last Line: The greenness gone someplace else Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAMILY PICNIC, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: All yellow and pink, child Last Line: Holding you, she recrosses continents Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAREWELL EARTH, by PENINNAH BRAUDE Poem Source First Line: How I love to breathe the air of you Last Line: One tear. %one Subject(s): Jews - Women FAT, by TONI MERGENTIME LEVI Poem Source First Line: Sensing behind her back %that I had slimmed Last Line: Slipping out the door at seventeen %dressed only in my nerve and bones Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FATHERS, by CECILE L. MARTINDALE Poem Source First Line: My father would sing to me Last Line: Or turn a leaf and guide small fingers %to the braille of the underside Subject(s): Jews - Women FIELD ANTHROPOLOGIST GIVES BIRTH, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: I hate the mundugumor Last Line: Her dawn head, bloodfeathered. My child, %your serious face Subject(s): Jews - Women FIRST THOUGHTS: ON LIBERATION DAY FROM A CONCENTRATION CAMP, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: I will leave my prison Last Line: I who have dared to live to this day %now dare to leave the darkness of this place Subject(s): Jews - Women FIRST TIME WE MADE SHABBOS TOGETHER., by MERLE FELD Poem Source Last Line: And indeed we have bloomed through the years Subject(s): Jews - Women FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, RUTH LEVIN, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two gnarled tree trunks from russia Last Line: But I'll never give you a great-grandchild %only a love poem I hope you understand Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY Poem Source First Line: Our rabbi tells us not to live in the past Last Line: Familiar road turn black with soldiers Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOUR JEWISH SYRIAN DAUGHTERS, by ADA AHARONI Poem Source First Line: My four sisters %the blood that flowed from you Last Line: Their daughters' tongues %have been grafted onto mine Subject(s): Jews - Women GEY KLAP DEM KOP IN VANT, by MILDRED BRENNER POLLNER Poem Source First Line: Go bang you head against the wall! Last Line: Her pronouncements %music to my ears! Subject(s): Jews - Women GIFTS, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: She sat amidst %the clutter of her life Last Line: It always makes %wonderful soup Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED., by MARIE ODLUM Poem Source Last Line: But, oh! For the wise, loving home girls %there's constant and steady demand Subject(s): Jews - Women GOD ONLY KNOWS, by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a woried mother Last Line: If anything will ever %come of it Subject(s): Jews - Women GRANDMA, by JESSE KULBERG Poem Source First Line: As I grow older Last Line: And how I miss her how I miss her how %I miss her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA SARAH, by DEBORAH ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: When I was young I would ask you to show me Last Line: I watch its dormant jewish waves %spring soundlessly to life Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA'S OBITUARY, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: At eighty, %she drove once a week to the montefiore rest home Last Line: But what would my friends say!' she gasped, and died at the thought Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by LISA GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I imagine three men %standing on the shore Last Line: Quivers as you sleep, %grandmother Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: My grandmother, marmita %was given the name minnie Last Line: And trace her love %forever on me Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by KAREN SEXTON-STEIN Poem Source First Line: We planted seeds Last Line: I, her shadow %and she, my world Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER SOPHIE, by SUSAN SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The silence tells me it's sabbath Last Line: And sophie on the fire escape %winks a slavic eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER'S STORY, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother shlepped these %candlesticks all the way Last Line: Later she said the candlesticks %were a gift from the czar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHERS, by MARYLYN CROMAN Poem Source First Line: My father's mother %wore silky dresses Last Line: You end by choosing your own Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRAY HAIRS, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: Gray hairs %crowd out the black Last Line: Wrinkles %provide no armor. %I still quiver %to anyone's dart Subject(s): Jews - Women GREET ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women GROWING UP, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: I packed all those important pieces Last Line: Through all these years of growing %and fallng back Subject(s): Jews - Women HAGAR, THE SECOND MORNING: A MIDRASH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Where are we? My ishmael sings Subject(s): Jews - Women HAJ, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Toward evening, the sun has fired Last Line: Across the field, the water pipes are singing Subject(s): Jews - Women HALLO, HALLO, by CECILE LOW Poem Source First Line: Hallo, reverend mother? Hallo! Last Line: My mirele, so long till then Subject(s): Jews - Women HARDEST WORK OF ALL, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: And one week later Last Line: The beat of both hearts - saying %not yet - not yet Subject(s): Jews - Women HARK, THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED KNOCKETH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women HE WHOSE LOCKS ARE BLACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women HEALER, by ROCHELLE SHAPIRO NATT Poem Source First Line: Mama tells me %how grandmother raised her ten children Last Line: As if it doesn't hurt at all Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women HEARTBEAT, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: All that long time Last Line: Now it's you Subject(s): Jews - Women HER EARRINGS, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: Daughters of sarah Last Line: While the lords of our universe run things %and we try to get them to look Subject(s): Jews - Women HER EYES TELL ME, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Pigeons see me as a five foot five Last Line: Her eyes tell me a mother must nest %on any rock Subject(s): Jews - Women HOLY GRANDMOTHERS IN JERUSALEM, by ESTHER RAAB Poem Source First Line: Holy grandmothers in jerusalem, %may your virtue protect me Last Line: The aroma of sabbath candles and naphthaline Variant Title(s): Holy Grandmothers In Jerusalem Subject(s): Jews - Women HOUSEGUEST, by MICHELLE BENDER Poem Source First Line: Death lives in our house Last Line: We must %turn down the sheet Subject(s): Jews - Women HOUSEWIFE, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: What can be wrong Last Line: Do others feel like this? Where do they go? Subject(s): Housewives; Jews - Women HOUSING SHORTAGE, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: I tried to live small Last Line: And a landscape, unbounded %and vast in abandon. %you too dreaming the same Subject(s): Jews - Women I AM PROUD OF YOU., by CHANA SAFRAN Poem Source Last Line: You are climbing higher, higher %and your torch lights up the night Subject(s): Jews - Women I AM THIRSTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I CANNOT SWIM., by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It was almost dark Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women I DO NOT WANT AN OLD MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I DREAMED HIM HOMEWARD, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: He came to say good-bye Last Line: No entry papers needed %anymore Subject(s): Jews - Women I FEEL SAD FOR YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I KNOW ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO SITS AND WAITS., by JUDITH ROSE Poem Source Last Line: Who hopes for her daughter %not %to sit and wait Subject(s): Jews - Women I KNOW NOT YOUR WAYS., by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source Last Line: I am afraid of the dark Subject(s): Jews - Women I NEVER THINK OF MYSELF AS WAITING FOR YOU., by MERLE FELD Poem Source Last Line: Why you've left me here %alone Subject(s): Jews - Women I SHALL BEGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I SHALL BEGIN TO SING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I SHALL BEGIN WITH THE NAME OF GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I THANK MY LORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I USED TO HAVE A FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I VOW!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I WAS FOUR IN DOTTED, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swiss summer pajamas %my face a blotch of Last Line: Me as so few ever %have since as if %not to lose more Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women I WENT DOWN TO THE CREEK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I'D LIKE TO JUDGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IF, by ROSE GUTMAN-JASNY Poem Source First Line: If another flood should come Last Line: You'll conduct the sabbath for desert winds %and smite the sea with thunder for its sins Subject(s): Jews - Women IMMIGRANT, by LINDA WATSKIN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's hands Last Line: My head between her breasts %and listen Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IN A DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN LIEU OF LETTERS, by SHARON CAMERON Poem Source First Line: Two days a week I teach. I try Last Line: Or startle at the shadows that lengthen by my side Subject(s): Jews - Women IN THE NAME OF GOD I SHALL BEGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN THE NAME OF THE PROPHET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN THIS GALAXY FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Are we jews sentenced to stay Last Line: Under the hechsher %of home-grown hachamim Subject(s): Jews - Women IN YOUR DOUGH KITCHEN, by KAREN NEUBERG Poem Source First Line: They say you hid in the trunk of a tree Last Line: I knew you were dying. %I knew that I would never know Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky the color of pea soup Last Line: After the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes Subject(s): Jews - Women INNOCENT DAUGHTER OF KINGS I DESIRE, by HAZMAG (SA'ID) Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IT'S INDIAN SUMMER, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: It's indian summer, more beautiful than I can remember Last Line: And black mounds of coal turned to dust in the cellar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IT'S TWILIGHT TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women JABOTINSKY STREET; FOR ROBERT FRIEND, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: For the man who nurses %twelve cats, one without claws Last Line: Plant them in a pot outside his window and pray %things will not stop blooming Subject(s): Jews - Women JENNY'S CHAIR, by BETH A. SPIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Everybody else calls their mother's mom grandma Last Line: And in her language that means happiness Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women JEWESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dark-browed daughter of the sun Last Line: Tis god's, not russia's, here to say. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Jews - Women; Right To Asylum; Judaism KIDDUSH LEVANA, by RUTH FINER MINTZ Poem Source First Line: A thousand lamps for you in the curve of the shore Last Line: Our children eat, grow beautiful on the mountain Subject(s): Jews - Women KOHAIN'S WIFE, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: In the month of av Last Line: A ritually prescribed proscribed %four amot away %from death Subject(s): Jews - Women KOL NIDRE, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: All the vows %and all the promises not kept Last Line: Perhaps even to love them Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Yom Kippur KRI'AH, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Shall I put on this kri'ah? Last Line: May you be comforted Subject(s): Jews - Women LAST EARTHWORDS FOR AWHILE, by LOUISE STEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Answer this question: if a train is moving at forty kilomete Last Line: Listen,' she says, 'everything is believeable, but what can we do?' Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LAST PERSON OUT OF THE COUNTRY, PLEASE TURN OFF LIGHTS, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: The women, (hair wrapped in colorful scarves) Last Line: Devouring what is already lost Subject(s): Jews - Women LEAH, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: If I squint I can see him in the field, that jacob Last Line: And here I sit in my tent %exercising power Subject(s): Jews - Women LEAH TELLS RACHEL SHE WANTS TO LEARN NOT TO LET JACOB MATTER, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Remember the hill where we played Last Line: That might have room %for us both Subject(s): Jews - Women LEARNING BONES, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: I'm learning bones to please my father's ghost Last Line: Pious at last, I pray his sleep is sound %we make amends in any way we can Subject(s): Jews - Women LEAVING TRAUB, MY GRANDMA'S STORY, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: I'm ready, all %I can carry packed Last Line: I will read the lost words %directly from my heart Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEGACY, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two came from russia Last Line: And finally surrendering %to the night Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LET ME BE JOYFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LETTER I WANTED TO WRITE, THE LETTER I WROTE, FOR OSNAT, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: In the medinah, in marrakesh Last Line: And dream of rivers %cleansing orange against wheat Subject(s): Jews - Women LETTER TO THE SONS OF ABRAHAM, by MARCIA FALK Poem Source First Line: Millennia have swept across the sands Last Line: And down to deeper roots to be reborn Subject(s): Jews - Women LETTERS TO MEEMA, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source First Line: There is a kitchen Last Line: And you %are out there Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LIFETIME'S YIZKOR, by MIRIAM BAT OR Poem Source First Line: Too long have I mourned the passing of many springs Last Line: When I see my beloved, after long and weary waiting %for the glory of the heaven beyond the stars Subject(s): Jews - Women LIGHT RIVER, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: The other women watching Last Line: Has been to shine %me home Subject(s): Jews - Women LIKE UNTO SHARON'S ROSES, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: My darling, your grace Last Line: And raise me from doubting and failing. Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): Flowers; Jews; Jews - Women; Roses; Judaism LILLIAN, QUEEN OF THE KELLS, by CASSANDRA SAGAN Poem Source First Line: Now that nana is dead Last Line: And open %all of the letters Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LIMITATIONS OF THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Maria sits on the edge of her chair Last Line: That's just what they say about you!' %says maria Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LISTEN TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LISTEN, O PRETTY ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LITTLE JENNY, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: Shards of a wine goblet Last Line: Before the sky spit %bullets and axes Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Last Line: She woke sometimes to feel the daylight coming %like a relentless milkman up the stairs Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LOST PEARL, by SUSAN KAN Poem Source First Line: Click and caught, %framed and fit in glass Last Line: You hummed as you combed your hair %to a clip at the back of your head Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LOUDER, PLEASE, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: My psychiatrist, having turned eighty Last Line: I pray louder too %having heard that %god is dead Subject(s): Jews - Women MAABAROTH, by RIKUDAH POTASH Poem Source First Line: Good evening, lord god Last Line: Shield them from the wind and rain %give them comfort in the night Subject(s): Jews - Women MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Last Line: Who became other by saving themselves Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MANY THANKS TO YOU, O FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MAZEL TOV!, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: Once %I was at a wedding Last Line: And screw the caterer Subject(s): Jews - Women MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Last Line: I am the woman, and about to enter Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation MEDITATION ON ALEPH, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Why do you say my sound is 'ah?' Last Line: Mine is the sound of listening, yearning, reaching %for my companion vowel Subject(s): Jews - Women MICHAL, by RACHEL BLUWSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Though years divide, we're sisters yet Last Line: Who also love whom I despise Subject(s): Jews - Women MIDRASH ON LEAH, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Nowadays your father couldn't play his trick Last Line: Even today, he'll have her too Subject(s): Jews - Women MINE WAS NOT A BUBBE, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: But an oma Last Line: Then she died Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MINOR SURGERY, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: During the procedure %I thought of sex Last Line: When I am better Subject(s): Jews - Women MODERN WOMAN, by IRENE RETI Poem Source First Line: Margit grunbaum reti - %you are a modern woman Last Line: Never stop learning, %live Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MOMMA REMEMBERS, by ELAINE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In zerdover %I couldn't go %to school. I was a girl Last Line: I wake up Subject(s): Jews - Women MORDECAI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'now say, my queen,' the monarch cries" Last Line: While thou hast bread to spare! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;israel;jews;jews - Women; Judaism MORNING, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: It is eight o'clock in Last Line: And when I look for my grandmother %where shall I go to find her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MOTHER'S TISHA B'AV, JULY 1984, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Bitter is the word Last Line: My missed-child %missing Subject(s): Jews - Women MOTHER, TELL MY FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY BELOVED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY BELOVED, LET US GATHER WOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY DARLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: I have come back Last Line: Bring them to you Subject(s): Jews - Women MY FRIENDS BAKED CAKE AND WE ORDERED LOX AND WHITEFISH, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: I stood there shoulder to shoulder with the men Last Line: What do you need with all those foreskins anyway? Subject(s): Jews - Women MY GRANDMA HAD A LOVER, by CAROLYN WHITE Poem Source Last Line: And grandma with her young young hand %draws back her golden hair Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHER'S BRAID, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: I lift her %thin braid Last Line: When the grown-ups %smile Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHER, THE REVOLUTIONARY, by SANDRA GARDNER Poem Source First Line: My grandmother %in the russian revolution Last Line: And left a note in yiddish %that no one could read Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY HEART DESIRES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY HEART IS JOYFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY HUSBAND TOOK A RIVAL WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY JEWISH LIFE LINE, by PENINNAH SCHRAM Poem Source First Line: My jewish life scribbled %across the page Last Line: But my life and line continue Subject(s): Jews - Women MY MOTHER'S NOVEL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Married academic woman ten Subject(s): Jews - Women; Writing & Writers MY MOTHER'S NOVEL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Married academic woman ten Last Line: Understand: I am my mother's %novel daughter: I %have my duty to perform Subject(s): Jews - Women; Writing And Writers MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S NAME IS ROSE, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: You grasp your cane with the hunger Last Line: Twirl your cane, stretch your arms, %let them tango Subject(s): Jews - Women MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: My old neighbor isn't in the apartment any more Last Line: Those who throw away old pictures %and those who pick them up Subject(s): Jews - Women NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused NAMES, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: Sunday nights at seven he's here Last Line: As we watch our uncle peeling back %the layers of our lives Subject(s): Jews - Women NANCY'S ALIYAH, by CYRILLE KANE Poem Source First Line: Mother's annoying everyone again Last Line: Will anyone notice when I disintegrate? Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: BRIGHTON BEACH, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: This is the end of brooklyn, defiant and salty Last Line: To a doorway %cluttered with roses Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: INHERITANCE, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: The tarot cards were a surpise Last Line: Will I grow used to her dissatisfaction %burnig like her green eyes in the corner, %constant as a mo Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: UNTENANTED, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Standing over %your uninhabited body Last Line: A brick wall %still holding in the sun Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: YAHRZEIT, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: The yahrzeit flame %is beating its wings in a cup Last Line: With all its stray cats, its ecstatic %vegetable stands Subject(s): Jews - Women NEWARK, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Lane %lives alone now Last Line: And sigh - like deer %in winter Subject(s): Jews - Women NINE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Convenient, my darling Last Line: To put your arms around me Subject(s): Jews - Women NOT YET VISIBLE, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: My father balances on scaffolding Last Line: Straining to see something %not yet visible Subject(s): Jews - Women NOW IS THE TIME FOR MERCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DANCER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DAUGHTER OF THE MORI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DAUGHTER, TELL ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DWELLER OF PARADISE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GIRL IN A HIDDEN CORNER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GROOM, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GROOM, WHO GUIDED YOU?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O HANDSOME ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O MOTHER, O FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O MY BROTHERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O MY PRETTY MAIDEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O THREE, O FOUR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O WOULD BREAST TOUCH BREAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OLD PEOPLE AT THE FILM SERIES AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: Every monday, the city herds Last Line: The sweet connection of their first ten years %together with the bitter flavor of the last Subject(s): Jews - Women OLD SOFTIE, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: He talks so thick %before bed Last Line: This stark adonis %bobbing unpedelstalled Subject(s): Jews - Women ON BORROWED TIME, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: At 76 and 80 my parents buy new tennis rackets Last Line: It frightens me %having lost so much Subject(s): Jews - Women ON LEARNING THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE OCCUPIED 2790 GREEN ST., by JANET WINANS Poem Source First Line: Odd of them to put a consulate Last Line: There's no one anymore to fix these things Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ON YOUR LIFE I HAVE SWORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women ONCE MORE WITH YOU, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: These days of love are lollipops Last Line: I'm once more with you %wubd-stunned Subject(s): Jews - Women ONE SOLID PIECE, by LINDA SHEAR Poem Source First Line: In the corner of the kitchen Last Line: She knew she would have to make room %for this legacy Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ORIGINAL SIN: A CAUSAL ANALYSIS, by LOUISE JAFFE Poem Source First Line: I needed a sin %an original sin Last Line: Fast-frozen in fame %in my husband's name Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR DAUGHTER IS STILL INNOCENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR GROOM IS LIKE ROLLING THUNDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women PAEAN AFTER SNOW, by LOUISE JAFFE Poem Source First Line: And lo it came to pass Last Line: So warmly, warmly good. %amen Subject(s): Jews - Women PARTINGS, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Birthing (then) and (now) parting Last Line: What steel cut true %leaving a thin scar? Subject(s): Jews - Women PARVE, by NINA JUDITH KATZ Poem Source First Line: There I was and I was parve Last Line: Grant me %my own set of dishes Subject(s): Jews - Women PASSOVER 1988, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I'm of the tribe of sarah Last Line: A daughter pulling an enemy child %from this river? Subject(s): Jews - Women PATIENCE, by JESSICA LIPSKY Poem Source First Line: Patience is the lesson Last Line: I wait for you to come Subject(s): Jews - Women PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A tawny lion sprawls on flowers Last Line: She tells him trouble! And he says knowingly, ah, dat freebase, mon! Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships PHOTO-FINISH BRAT, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: About once a week, invited, I Last Line: Either she's grown up. %or I Subject(s): Jews - Women PICTURE IN A DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women POEM, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: You sowed in me, not a child Last Line: I still, even now, can make you songs Subject(s): Jews - Women POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women POETRY, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: My grandfather pesach hung himself Last Line: Three generations %unpublished poets %each not knowing the language of the other Subject(s): Jews - Women PRAYER ON THE APPROACH OF ACCOUCHEMENT, by FANNY NEUDA Poem Source First Line: Oh, my god! Soon, soon approaches the great hour Last Line: Keep and preserve me from all evil. %amen Subject(s): Jews - Women PRAYERS FOR A SICK DAUGHTER, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: I sleep %this winter Last Line: We will be done %to begin Subject(s): Jews - Women PREDESTINATION OR, LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: I kissed the frog firmly Last Line: Fiercely resisting princehood Subject(s): Jews - Women PRINCESS MICHAL'S SONG, by ROSALIND (ROSA) DARROW Poem Source First Line: Here in the garden %sit david and I Last Line: And I shall weave %garlands alone in the night Subject(s): Jews - Women QIRYAT SHMONEH, by ESTHER COHEN Poem Source First Line: Bible men walk %with beards Last Line: On top of the sunrise and we'll eat soup together %with one golden spoon Subject(s): Jews - Women RACHEL, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: I will sit here very still Last Line: A late bloomer - but special Subject(s): Jews - Women RACHEL'S HUNGER, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I've seen rachel tear at the strings Last Line: Until the shadow of a child's hand %touched her face Subject(s): Jews - Women RACHEL: 3, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sprung from the blood of israel's scattered race Last Line: Her genius and her glory are her own. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism RAIN IS FALLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women REBECCA, THE JEWESS, by CLARK B. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: Closed are the tear-gates of paradise now Last Line: The beautiful land of dreams. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism RECIPE, by SUSAN (RITTER) LEVINKIND Poem Source First Line: A guggle muggle %I'm not even sure how to spell it Last Line: Don't burn your throat, %so it feels, yes? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women REJOICE IN THE BLESSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women RISA, by MARCIA FALK Poem Source First Line: When risa crosses her long legs Last Line: All the wadis of judea go streaming %in the rush of spring Subject(s): Jews - Women RITES DE PASSAGE, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: As our bodies took shape Last Line: Of passage gleamed like dime %in your eyes Subject(s): Jews - Women ROCK, by NATALIE R. SHEFFLER Poem Source First Line: My father was the silence that we ate Last Line: He lowered his voice so the neighbors couldn't hear, %his silence the rock inside the stone Subject(s): Jews - Women ROSE, by MARGO HITTELMAN Poem Source First Line: Crazy, they called you Last Line: I'm sorry %I love you Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ROSIE, by NICOLE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: She tosses bread to them Last Line: He gives her ends %from cold-cuts. And stale bread Subject(s): Jews - Women ROUND, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: Im my head %house of bone Last Line: & who will remember %my mother my father? Subject(s): Jews - Women ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS Poem Source First Line: Mamuchka, %it has been so long Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend Subject(s): Jews - Women ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS Poem Source First Line: Mamushka, it has been so long since we have spoken Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SABBATH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I have chopped the fish Last Line: Blue blossoms hang low %on the bush Subject(s): Jews - Women SABBATH EYES, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Holy one of being Last Line: Help us feel your presence Subject(s): Jews - Women SAFE HOUSES, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: On the tenth of november Last Line: To our safe house %saved by mommy Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE MOTHER OF THE DAUGHTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE MOTHER OF THE SONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE POET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SARAH AND ISAAC HER SON: A MIDRASH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Abraham's eyes blaze the command to bathe his son Last Line: Weeping for hagar's forgiveness as though it were a trail %she might follow Subject(s): Jews - Women SARAH IN HER DAUGHTER'S HOUSE ... REMEMBERS THE SHUL, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I'm remembering: %in the old country, you know, in the shul Last Line: The tears cames running some more Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SARAH TALKS TO GOD, by LILLIAN ELKIN Poem Source First Line: And why, oh king, my god, should the blood of a child Last Line: And my sorrow sounds me with knives %and I am bitter in my doubts Subject(s): Jews - Women SARAH: CHESHBON HANEFESH, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: I know I don't look too good Last Line: The tunnel was sealed at both ends from the start Subject(s): Jews - Women SAUL'S HAMMER, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: Today it matters, that I hold Last Line: The blossoming and the dying %and what that meant Subject(s): Jews - Women SCLEROTIC, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Sclerotic means the scars are all inside Last Line: Our lives consist of what we choose to hide Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF THE SWASTIKA, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: The first swastika season %I was four Last Line: I never touched them Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 1, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Pale moon, ever coming and going Last Line: Awaken us to the beauty of endless cycles %visible signs of god's eternal love Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 2, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere out of time Last Line: A witness to that timeless moment %present now in the light of your torah Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 3, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: The ark is sweet with flowers' scent Last Line: To receive once more the breath of light %in the whispered awakening of dawn Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 4, by ROSIE ROSENZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Unroll the parchment scroll Last Line: Like the eternal bride and bridegroom joined as one %rejoice! Subject(s): Jews - Women SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships SHARING THE WISDOM, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: You come, old one, %to my bones that ache from Last Line: Your thin frame and silvered mind, %a talisman against growing old Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SHOPPING ADVICE, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Fresh is much better than frozen Last Line: I have the right Subject(s): Jews - Women SISTER PROPHECY: A GIFT FOR BONITA'S 32ND BIRTHDAY, by CELIA Y. WEISMAN Poem Source First Line: Round bellied sisters %pose tummy to tummy Last Line: One moon inside both of us now Subject(s): Jews - Women SISTERS, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Married to one man Last Line: Not a man's wife,' %said leah Subject(s): Jews - Women SIX O'CLOCK NEWS, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: At six o'clock, my mother %always listened to the news Last Line: A final act of love Subject(s): Jews - Women SMALL PLEASURES, by NANCY IMBERMAN TAMLER Poem Source First Line: Walking home from schul Last Line: As adorned %as the earth, herself Subject(s): Jews - Women SO OPEN WE CONCEIVE, by CHANA BELL Poem Source First Line: She said you'll find what you need here Last Line: My parents gave birth to their hope %resurrecting life out of ashes %I give birth to you - little tr Subject(s): Jews - Women SONG FOR MY FATHER, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Peace, the hour %when doves crowd the top of the thicket Last Line: Among the grasses of the field Subject(s): Jews - Women SUBWAY SONG, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Big black man hugging the subway pole Last Line: Keep my mouth closed %and my eyes elsewhere Subject(s): Jews - Women SUN AND I, by RACHEL FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I am sunned %sunned through Last Line: Or receive the light Subject(s): Jews - Women SUNDAY, by MARCIA G. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Alone on sunday %I envy you Last Line: Because I felt so lonely %with you Subject(s): Jews - Women SUNFLOWERS, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: The sunflowers are turning Last Line: Shabbat is too long with so much sun, %too long without flowers, with broken wings Subject(s): Jews - Women; Sunflowers SUSAN DANCES, by BETH JOSELOW Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was in all of her dancing Last Line: And knows that practicing %is all there is Subject(s): Jews - Women TAH SHEMA, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Come, come and listen Last Line: On whose tree %it grew? Subject(s): Jews - Women TELL ME, O GAZELLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women TENDER SAPLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THE AMERICAN JEWESS, by ALBERT ULMANN Poem Text First Line: O youngest daughter of thy ancient race Last Line: And make of each a better man, a worthier jew. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Jews In America; Judaism THE INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky the color of pea soup Subject(s): Jews - Women THE JEWESS, by ALLAN DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Her hair is winged with summer nights Last Line: The story of her race. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism THE JEWESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother she in israel Last Line: Of eden and gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jews - Women THE JEWISH MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A star of guidance o'er life's troubled ocean Last Line: Keeps evermore the day of holy rest Subject(s): Jews;jews - Women;mothers; Judaism THE MAID OF THE GHETTO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sad eyes and dark she bends upon the throng Last Line: Some judith with a falchion in her hands? Subject(s): Jews;jews - Women; Judaism THE SHOSHANAH, by GEORGE E. CHODOWSKY Poem Text First Line: A lily lies broken and bare on a highway Last Line: "in zion to flourish again." Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Mourning; Zionism; Judaism; Bereavement THEE, MY BELOVED, by ABRAHAM BEN HALFON Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THERAPIST, by RUTH ROSTON Poem Source First Line: Marcia fogelson is dancing Last Line: Spinning light into the whiteness %of the ward Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY DID NOT BUILD WINGS FOR THEM, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Here the world was a passionate place and she %would visit it at night baring her breasts %to the mo Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY SAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY USED TO LOVE ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF JERUSALEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a black thread Last Line: And keep filling %their plates with more Subject(s): Jews - Women TO MY GRANDMOTHER, 187-1970, by CAROL ASCHER Poem Source First Line: Suddenly you're gone and I see years ago Last Line: Dead, now dead %and a time is over Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TRAUB, IN MY GRANDMA'S WORDS, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: A small village, %a few huts Last Line: Opens like a child's mouth %to the russian sky Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TU B'SHEVAT, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Midwinter yet it has started Last Line: Shows buds beginning %blossoms Subject(s): Jews - Women TWILIGHT ZONE, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: Of course the restaurant was open Last Line: They closed down the store %and the rest of the town Subject(s): Jews - Women TWO YOUNG WOMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WARSAW CAROUSEL, by CECILE LOW Poem Source First Line: Just outside the ghetto wall Last Line: Inside the wall, our children die %outside the music plays Subject(s): Jews - Women WE ALL STOOD TOGETHER, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: My brother and I were at sinai Last Line: If we remember it together %we could recreate holy time %sparks flying Subject(s): Jews - Women WE ARE, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: We are not tintypes of %great-grandmothers Last Line: Jewish women %not yet ourselves Subject(s): Jews - Women WELCOME THE GUEST AND HER FAMILY!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WHEN ON YOUR WAY, MESSENGER, by UNKNOWN+171 Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WHEN THE GROOM APPEARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sing glorified and adorned songs Subject(s): Jews - Women WHO SEPARATED ME?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WHY I UNDERSTAND WORLD LITERATURE, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Nipple-length %tresses %auburn-dyed Last Line: He-she does spin Subject(s): Jews - Women WIDOW, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Death is not a striding reaper Last Line: Now let my day begin! Subject(s): Jews - Women WOMAN OF VALOR, WHO CAN FIND?, by RENEE ALFANDARY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time in concord, california, there lived a woman of valor with Last Line: A man of valor, who can find? Subject(s): Jews - Women WOMEN'S TALK, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The women go one by one aliyah Last Line: Skipping with your syllables %down the centuries of womne Subject(s): Jews - Women WORDS FOR A SONG, by HELEN NEVILLE Poem Source First Line: I do not mind Last Line: In a language I cannot hope to understand %and all the beautiful marble columns broken Subject(s): Jews - Women YIDDISH, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: On the second anniversary of liberation Last Line: Lithuanian learned from my father %it didn't matter Subject(s): Jews - Women; Lithuania; Yiddish YOSOM, by BLU GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: Yeshiva handsome: %a hooked nose Last Line: Straightened his hat Subject(s): Jews - Women YOU HAVE SWORN TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women YOUNG WOMEN LEAVE HOME, by RIFKA FINGERHUT Poem Source First Line: When young women leave home Last Line: Young ones loving one another with the skills their mothers taught them Subject(s): Jews - Women YOUR IMAGE IS LIKE A TENDER BRANCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women ZIP-DOOR JOHNNY, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: He'd stand out in the Last Line: His sometimes %pissass %ways Subject(s): Jews - Women |
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