Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Quotes
Short Stories
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Resources
Syllable Counter
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 18.217.229.111
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
SS CITY OF BENARES Prior knowledge this ship will carry weapons to aid Britain on its return journey Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt, should have waited, but; trigger thirsty After two failed attempts managed it on the third try, 77 children, then all died Blaming the British, for allowing such children to sail within a war zone he cried This British ship was part of a convoy, no mention of the children, it sailed unlit Bleichrodt had he known there were children on board wouldn’t of made the hit It was enough for Churchill who put an end to ships that carried child evacuees This wasn't his idea of the Germans doing their bit to bring Britain to its knees Only 2 weeks before the attack of the SS Volendam, with 320 children on board With this attack, the children survived, though to their luck shall not be ignored As later it was found, another torpedo, unexploded, as embedded into her bow It is this that first initially started, that evacuation of evacuees, by sea ship row Our children were supposed to be protected not killed by those forsaken waves As many of them never even reached shore were left deep in their ocean graves Indiana Shaw . . . “Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt attended the Nuremberg war crime trials for his part in the sinking of the SS City of Benares, where he was acquitted” “Also, the British should take their share of the blame for the deaths of these children for their part, in allowing their ships carrying the child evacuees, to be the same British ships noted by the Germans for picking up American weapons in which to aid their war”
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required