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Buchenwald Poems - Poems about Buchenwald

Premium Member in memoriam
... this is a true if near impossible contest how can you write a poem about mourning and honouring the ones deceased in a war without it being somewhat political you do not have to be a feminist......

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Categories: buchenwald, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tragedy or Triumph
... Piles of ashes mountains of bones The smell of flesh burning crematoria’s home Auschwitz, Dachau Buchenwald now fade Hitler replaced by the H......

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Categories: buchenwald, death, fire, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme



name calling
...Name-calling We who live in the west  do not see Israel as a colonial power the last one in the Middle East As many colonialists before Israel this unlawful occupation will end and when the dus......

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Categories: buchenwald, age, birthday, butterfly, creation,
Form: Blank verse
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......

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Categories: buchenwald, cry, death, evil, heart,
Form: Free verse
The Last Train, Part I
...On the canvas of a cold, grey, winter sky, In large black letters above the Iron Gate, Read the message: "Arbeit Macht Frei". A shrewdly sinister, propagandist lie, Designed to deceive all of our......

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Categories: buchenwald, allegory, allusion, analogy, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jingle-Jangle Bells
...Jingle-jangle bells Sing-song syncopation Ambulances hurtle down streets of post-war Europe Eerie bells; haunting bells ghosts of round-ups, of Auschwitz of Buchenwald, and Bergen-B......

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Categories: buchenwald, death, pain, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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: buchenwald, death, father, grief, universe,
Form: Free verse
Dream Lady
...Saturnalia my Dream Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute obduration under duress a malleable direction coming to nothing just the gearing of time Spartan gates left open to a millennium......

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Categories: buchenwald, evil, life,
Form: Free verse
Warfare
...meanness cruel actions human history this being our legacy before being submerged in our own heart-waste what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibo......

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Categories: buchenwald, war,
Form: Suzette Prime
Saturnalia
...Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute obduration under duress a malleable direction coming to nothing just the gearing of time Spartan gates left open to a millennium of thought three legge......

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Categories: buchenwald, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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: buchenwald, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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: buchenwald, celebration, holocaust, remember, voyage,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Arizona Memorial
...I am sitting at the Arizona Memorial, which shows how far my scruples have gone. I lived in Hawaii for years, and could almost claim to be a kamaaina. without the least inclination to visit this memo......

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Categories: buchenwald,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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: buchenwald, history
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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: buchenwald, angst, brother, childhood, daughter,
Form: Rhyme

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