Best Dachau Poems
Hitler Burns
...Hitler 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 cool water on ......
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Categories:
dachau, horror,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Barbed Wire
...Barbed 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 worked with it mutilating their hands.
Sheepherder......
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Categories:
dachau, history
Form:
Rhyme
Never Forget
...From 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 quite swell.
Next up from Russia was Cousin Boris, whom I al......
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Categories:
dachau, death, family, memorial, world
Form:
Rhyme
Holokauston Page 2 of 2
...After 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 Human slime
Auschwitz, Buchenwald & Dachau slaughtered
......
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Categories:
dachau, angst, brother, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Under the Cover
...Under The Cover.
.
You can never ever
Tell a book by it’s cover
As I was later to discover
The Lady in the Nursing home
The old man across the way
All have a story to tell
Hidden away
.
Som......
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Categories:
dachau, appreciation, caregiving, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
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 Jewish race is about to pay
Who g......
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Categories:
dachau, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of Danny Fine
...Not too long ago, back about 1929
Was conceived a boy, name of Danny Fine
Born on a Thursday, 24th of October
A day the stock market turned stone-cold sober
When the crash was over, five days l......
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Categories:
dachau, father, mother, relationship, son,
Form:
Ballad
At the Gates of Auschwitz
...At The Gates of Auschwitz
Today, I stand
At the gates of hell;
“Arbeit macht frei,”
(work sets you free!)
That is Auschwitz.
Where they burned God’s children,
And the ......
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Categories:
dachau, evil, holocaust, jewish, remember,
Form:
Prose
Into the Light: Safe Haven, 1944
...INTO THE LIGHT: SAFE HAVEN, 1944
“And you that shall cross from shore to shore…are more
to me and more in my meditations, ......
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Categories:
dachau, celebration, holocaust, remember, voyage,
Form:
Verse
The Champion
...The Champion
Controlled by remote desires I trip the laurel fuse of longing ancestry
My Mom had been chosen to compete diving from the high platform of
Hitler’s mania for ‘Kraft’ ‘Freude’ livin......
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Categories:
dachau, abuse, peace, political, war,
Form:
Free verse
Who Was Lizzie Van Zyl
...Who was Lizzie Van Zyl?
A small girl stands on Woodcock Bridge
Pointing at her reflection in the water.
The glint from the sun, and a cold wind,
Distorts a distant memory of gold, and places long for......
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Categories:
dachau, history, girl, birth, girl,
Form:
Free verse
Daddy Revisited
...No more swastikas -
you're with Daddy now.
When father sneezes,
Dachau odes are sprayed
onto sandpaper.
Linen tissues
glaze his black horns.
Dish rags polish
obtuse pitchforks.
Papa squi......
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Categories:
dachau, angst
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
Fiddling About
...Fiddling About.
by The Didds
Annual Concert, DMT, Time to act, you and me,
At Dauntsey School, a painted floor, performed in the round,
with rehearsals at Sheep Street church, St Joe's school......
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Categories:
dachau, grief, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
5
...
"5"
benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world
grace, a name
whispered before
a meal shared
5 fingers
on each hand
steeples, hiding people
g......
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Categories:
dachau, war,
Form:
Free verse
Gone - Vanished
...When I was young, my father wrote poems, lovely poems, in Yiddish.
In one poem, he called me, his only son, his 'kadish'l, the one who would recite the Kaddish, the Prayer for the Deceased, for him ......
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Categories:
dachau, death, father, grief, universe,
Form:
Free verse