Best Auschwitz Poems
Below are the all-time best Auschwitz poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of auschwitz poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Last Train To AuschwitzIn nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train...
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Categories:
auschwitz, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Form:
Narrative
Last Train To Auschwitz ContestAshes to Ashes
Smoke
rises in the distance.
The boxcar
rocks,
rocks,
rocks;
stones
are placed along the ties.
Were they placed by Chance
or left
as gently as Kaddish.
I lift my hands in the...
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Categories:
auschwitz, angst, death, death of
Form:
I do not know?
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the...
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Categories:
auschwitz, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form:
Rhyme
The Train RideRuth and her six year old daughter Annie, were moving along the countryside by Train. Ruth was reminiscing. She was staring deeply into her...
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Categories:
auschwitz, anxiety, jewish, love, mother
Form:
Narrative
Hitler BurnsHitler is burning
He burned yesterday
He will be burning tomorrow
He began to burn immediately
after his last breath.
Hitler will burn forever.
He would gladly accept a drop
of...
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Categories:
auschwitz, horror,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
- Killed Without Reason -Dare you look deep into this darkness
Persecution of Jews - Holocaust
In Hebrew, this has the genocide
been called Shoah,
which means disaster or destruction
The journey has just...
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Categories:
auschwitz, dark, evil, war,
Form:
Free verse
Weeping
Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . .
In another time, under the dictatorship of Adolf...
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Categories:
auschwitz, racism,
Form:
Narrative
I Am So TiredI am tired of counting the red dwarf stars in the Milky Way.
I am tired of counting the 7 years of grain in Pharaoh's silos.
I...
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Categories:
auschwitz, bereavement, dark, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Barbed WireBarbed wire seems a 'thorny' subject on which to opine,
But there arose a need for such for people and beasts to confine!
Cowpokes cussed as they...
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Categories:
auschwitz, history
Form:
Rhyme
Exclusive Birth RightsExclusive Birth Rights
I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral...
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Categories:
auschwitz, humanity, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Evil In Six Words
Nazi horror
Auschwitz
Piles of shoes
_____________________________
February 22, 2016
Poetry/Free Verse/Evil in Six Words
Copyright Protected, ID 16-760-327-0
All Rights...
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Categories:
auschwitz, war,
Form:
Free verse
I, IconThey spied me in the sky, dropping bombs of love
on Ferguson, and bitchy women's rooms; and rednecks'
shooting range was next, the blooded boxing...
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Categories:
auschwitz, humor, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Never ForgetFrom Poland hailed your Uncle Max, who in matters of manners was a bit lax,
While from France came Aunt Belle, whom I thought was really...
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Categories:
auschwitz, death, family, memorial, world
Form:
Rhyme
Holokauston Page 2 of 2After the quiet we all have to go
Dragged and carted by the Sonderkommando
To be dumped in pits covered by lime
A race to dispose by it's...
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Categories:
auschwitz, angst, brother, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Holokauston
holókauston
Around that table picture the scene
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean
What were the topics on the agenda that day
The...
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Categories:
auschwitz, death,
Form:
Rhyme