Hanukkah by night

Hanukkah
by night
by days and nights

candles
prayers by song
and there are meals together
for
conversation
and there is play

it is the Temple miracle
eight lights
for
the time before supplies
arrived
and on their own
the lights
to sanctify
the space be sacrosanct
again

blue
silver
visits
dreidel
chocolate
and
a festive attitude
persisting all the week
and
why not

the love of God evident through
miracle
endowing the return
and
we could meet in Jerusalem
next year

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Photo by Katie Rainbow 🏳️‍🌈 on Unsplash--“A colorful nine-branched Hanukkah menorah, also known as a ‘Hanukkiah’. Handmade out of colored paper.”