Day 239:

Feb 24-Purim, the Hebrew Holiday, Rescue of the Jews, Queen Esther’s heroics. done in Yiddish Folk Verse: Stanzaic,any number of quatrains, occasionally written in sixains. Accentual, written with 4 stressed syllables per line and any number of unstressed syllables, rhyme xaxa, xbxb, etc. x is unrhymed. Sometimes abab cdcd, sixains in rhyme aabccb ddeffe, etc. This version will be a sixtain. (#12,410)

Purim, a celebration of peace

A Queen helped violence to her people to cease

Esther by name, history by fame

While hated by Haman who was hung

Her exploits are now forever sung

For life, freedom, and peace, there’s Purim.