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Auschwitz Poems - Poems about Auschwitz

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Etty's Pen
...My heart failed a few times again today, but each time it came back to life. This is no time for poets and philosophers. *** It is strange that in such a short time a person can come to feel as mu......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, courage, dedication, eulogy, fate,
Form: Free verse



Holocaust Remembrance Day
...A siren sounds and movement stops – Pedestrians stand still While cars and buses hit the brakes And silence reigns until Another siren breaks the spell; Two minutes to reflect On the gates o......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, history, today, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
From River to the Sea
...From river to the sea, an ocean of blood, filled with cries of children; peace is broken, homes destroyed, lives shattered, a sea of refugees fleeing torrential bombs, under the ether of Western civ......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member See Us Through
...From the ashes at Auschwitz to the charred remains at Be'eri Generations of Jewish children bear witness to the same tragic story Mankind's searing hate for God's people the J......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, death, god, jewish, life,
Form: Rhyme
Face
...Her face pops up on the screen and she stared directly at me looking into her dream and, as the verdict is read, she grips tightly to her symbolic bed. Her eyes were motionless, her lips speechle......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, baby, community, corruption, courage,
Form: Narrative



The Silver Lining
...Blessed Assumption of the Immaculata! I wrote this in honor of Fr. Kolbe… they are the same, but not the same -- at the same time. Love the Immaculata! :D 7 sorrows of Fr. Kolbe :( 1. his mam......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, abuse, family, joy, lost
Form: List
Premium Member Good God and Bad
...Would a good God permit an Auschwitz Would a bad god grant Mother Theresa long life Would a good God turn Osama bin Laden loose Would a bad god have given Adam a wife When folks say......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, god, introspection, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris -
... ~ from reality - brutal, cruel and poignant - love survived ~......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, fate, war,
Form: Monoku
Facial Recognition Blues
...Facial Recognition Blues Physicists speculating about a cosmic hologram Anarchists debating about the next message from Uncle Sam The archaic ageing of the technology of the Telegram An innoce......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, angst, beautiful, corruption, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
In Memoriam of a Broken Family
...Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust. Six million irons, disjointed from their ores Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils. The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing Were uncouple......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Mirth of Monsters
...A picture appeared on my phone today, on the proverbial page I perused. A view of an evil most vile, villainy veiled behind verve and vim. Sadists from Auschwitz, smiling in a storm. Should......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, evil, fear, holocaust, horror,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Silent Scream
...Heart's silent scream lovers torn from savaged arms Hunched over bludgeoned into queue they disappear from view Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Buch......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, cry, death, evil, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emagi Porter Auschwitz
...Peter Porter 'ANNOTATIONS of AUSCHwITZ      R B       M A           R E    A      E I       C H    F      I               T         T ||                                  || ||          ......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, places, poems,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Czeslawa Kwoka
...Czeslawa Kwoka #26947 04/12/1943 (c) London F. Bus Auschwitz Birkenau. Killing is hard work, but the schnapps is fine. Czeslawa Kw......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, allegory, death, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Kolbe Responds
...Mother: Oh Raymond, Raymond, what's to become of you? :( Raymond: I'll stay pure & give my life; Our Lady says it's true. Jesus: Father Maximilian Kolbe, if you love Me... feed my sheep! :O Pr......Read the rest...
Categories: auschwitz, brother, food, hero, holocaust,
Form: Heroic Couplet

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