Buna Poems - Poems about Buna

...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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