World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find...
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Categories:
buna, evil, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Primo Levi Holocaust Poem: Buna
...Buna
by Primo Levi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Mangled feet, cursed earth,
the long interminable line in the gray morning
as Buna smokes corpses through industrious ch...
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Categories:
buna, death, holocaust, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Kokoda 1942 See-Saw Battle
...Kokoda 1942 See-saw battle
Red blood was a running, emerald green saw it pour,
In the mountains of Kokoda, death on the see-saw,
400 fifteen to eighteen year old boys knew the score,
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Categories:
buna, adventure,
Form: Ballad
New Guinea Kokoda Campaign
...New Guinea Kokoda Campaign
In 1942 the Japs appeared, took all the islands north.
Our troops were mainly school boys and for New Guinea bound.
13,000 Japs landed, climbed up Kokoda and came ...
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Categories:
buna, adventure, school, men, old,
Form: Ballade
Pock Marked
...Pock marked
Bert was cooking in a bucket,
Knew his hide at any rate
Pock marks on his thighs an biceps,
Shot that day by a sniper, mate,
Sniper chopped by Aussie Bren gun,
Fell from palm in...
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Categories:
buna, adventure, day, war, day,
Form: Ballad
Patradoot Or the Messenger 4/Many
...Patradoot or The Messenger 4/Many
English version by
Ravindra K Kapoor
Decorated with the beauty of letters,
Your clear body would be ornamented,
And as a wing of my broken heart,
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Categories:
buna, epichindi,
Form: Free verse
Patradoot Or the Messenger 2nd of Many
...Patradoot or The Messenger 2/Many
Originally written in Hindi by my late
father Dr. Amar Nath Kaporr around 1932
English version
Being a prisoner I can bring my beloved,
In my mind thro...
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Categories:
buna, epichindi, father, world, writing,
Form: Free verse