Long World war i Poems
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RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
world war i, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
world war i, memory,
Form:
Prose
The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
world war i, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
world war i, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Albert Einstein PoemsALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
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Categories:
world war i, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
world war i, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
world war i, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
world war i, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
world war i, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
world war i, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
world war i, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Chapter 95 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Just Summertime Birthday CelebrationsThe kid who often was lost in
The sauce Joshua! His
birthday was in June. He became
The strong silent youngster with
The youngest kids.
A small Celebration was held in
Josh's honor party at...
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Categories:
world war i, birth, black love, children, confidence, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
world war i, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
world war i, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
world war i, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
world war i, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
FBI FRAUDAs i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11 medal information this resulted in her arriving with a gunman...
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Categories:
world war i, anxiety, family, hurt, military, poetry, stress, world
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - IWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
world war i, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
America Wasn'T So Bad Back ThenWe have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...
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Categories:
world war i, america,
Form:
Prose
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In ParisIt was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
world war i, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
A Most Courageous American President For the AgesA Most Courageous American President for the Ages
I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...
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Categories:
world war i, america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
Come post presidential election 2024Come post presidential election 2024...
heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality,
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dissed
brigand able, eager, ready and willing
to punch contenders throwing...
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Categories:
world war i, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiiMy most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
What's Love Got To Do With ItI started out life as Anna Mae Bullock, ...
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Categories:
world war i, child, cry, hurt, music, song, woman, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue