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The Last Train To Auschwitz

Brown and worn She slowly trundled, Carrying the tattered and torn Clutching their bundle. She leans to the right And then the left, In that pitiful night Laying sleepers bereft. All her metal and carriage Held a thousand souls Between their marriage Of her red hot coals. And the wooden doors weep The iron locks, hold their breath While she screeches on In her role of death.

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Date: 4/12/2021 5:40:00 PM
Honored to be the first to review this. Thank you for this Memorial. Really moved by line 8. You have the are of closing out verses. Personifying a train as a monster is clever poetry. Also iron locks are also used as characters. A wealthy poem with meaning.
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Janine Lever
Date: 4/13/2021 10:48:00 AM
I am honoured that you have given me the comments you have. I am just a free spirit verser, (if there is such a word), but i do feel my poetry very deeply, each one filling me and leaving me with the emotion of the subject. I never construct and i usually just close my eyes, feel the title and let whatever wants to come, arrive. Thank you so much, i am greatly touched. xx

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