Topic Tags: candles

“letters spinning out to form new words, new rites, inviting new voices to weave old songs into new traditions?”

“I ignite a match and think of our ancestors / as though they were just upstairs…” 

“The candle flames like stars / gleaming in the night sky…”

“Hers is the only festival empowered to span two moons.”

“This small blue box, / four inches tall, / holds forty-four candles.”

“Create new homes / And save the old ones. / Light candles, Now.”

“The twin flames flicker, one to remember and one to keep…”

“We will come together, as we always do, to make fire holy in our lives again.”

“The story’s flame, its lesson bold: Through vast trials, the soul can soar / and the light will shine forevermore.”

Listen to Karen Webber’s ‘Frying a Soulful Latke,’ a Hanukkah poem from her series ‘Enkindle.’