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Poems for Sukkot: What I Wrote in Third Grade

10/3/2025

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by David Kilimnick

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Many people know Sukkah songs. However, poetry adds depth. Poems make the holiday more meaningful. Here are a few poems I wrote in third grade, to bring spirituality to your Sukkot holiday.

Sukkah Hopping
Sukkah hopping is hopping from Sukkah to Sukkah
I hope we don't have to hop
Thank Gd. If we did. I would stop
And go back home
I don't think I can hop a mile even when I'm not alone
That's it?! All this Sukkah has is soup?!
Now I know why we have to go to another Sukkah
More candy?! From Sandy?!
Is this Sukkot or Halloween
Instead of a house, we're hopping from Sukkah to Sukkah
Hoping for some ice cream
We wouldn't have had to hop if just one Sukkah served a meal
I don't want an orange peel
People throw out the peel
Or compost it
Even with chocolate on it
You will notice that I chose poetry over the report. The teacher said that for my report to do well I needed punctuation.
You will also notice that we were hoping, not hopping, for ice cream. A little play on words, which I tried saying. It didn't work as well in oral form. When I recited this composition in third grade gym class, my fellow students asked what "hope" has to do with "hopping." I had to explain that it was a work of literature.


Why Are We Sitting Out Here
(I wrote this one in third grade about Sukkot - I was inspired) 
It's freezing- why are we outside
I understand there is a cover you call Schach- but the cover has holes in it
The chair is made of metal- where should I sit
It's freezing- I said the chair is made of metal
That's your forearm- who measures with a cubit
If this is our home- I want out of this family
For seven days I can do it- as long as we have brisket and hot pastrami
It's still freezing and brisket tastes good inside too
I truly love hot pastrami. I would've sat outside on the frozen chairs, in the uneven cubit Sukkah, for the hot pastrami.
I got a bad grade on this poem. My Torah and Mishna teacher was not inspired by my words.


I Love You Holiday
Oh Shabbat
How I love you
Pesach, Sukkot
You are the joy of every Jew
Shavuot, Yom Kippur
I love you too
I love every day
When we don’t have school
Mrs. Funsten gave me a bad grade on that, even though ‘school’ loosely rhymes with ‘Jew.’ Wrong of her, as I had a diction problem and never was able to pronounce the ‘l.’ Schoo and Jew rhyme. I believe that is quite clear.
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