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Dachau Poems - Poems about Dachau

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: dachau, death, fire, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme
In Memoriam of a Broken Family
...Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust. Six million irons, disjointed from their ores Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils. The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing Were uncouple......

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Categories: dachau, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free 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: dachau, cry, death, evil, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ashes That Fell From the Sky
...A simple life, Is all that we dreamed of, To raise our families, To be proud of the country we call home. Our lives were interrupted, By the rantings of a madman, Who thought that genocide, G......

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Categories: dachau, death, emotions, evil, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Survivors Dwindle To a Precious Few
...Blackened potato rock-hard tomato Piece of stale bread filthy mattress, a bed All luxuries at Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen and Dachau ......

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Categories: dachau, food, health, horror, world
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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
Premium Member The Hell of Dachau
...Walking thru the gates of, This hell known as Dachau, Looking at the words, "Arbeit Nacht Frei" " Work sets you free" I see them in their pinstripped clothes, Torn, Dirty hanging off their bodi......

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Categories: dachau, death, dedication, emotions, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
They Fall Today, Still
...as Las Vegas blood pours on Manchester in droplets the shape of poker chips scattered, dropped by a God laughing all the way to the bank when the lattice streets, corners and cobbles and bridges o......

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Categories: dachau, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Why ----------- I
...Why? Ended World War Two L I B E R A T E D From Dachau Asking Just One Questio......

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Categories: dachau, god, holocaust, life,
Form: Ninette
Premium Member 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
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: dachau, death, father, grief, universe,
Form: Free verse
Dachau
...Dachau The train rails are gone, the processing center an exhibition. The barracks scrubbed. The hanging loops in The shower rooms removed, racks and whipping tables clean and displayed. The ......

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Categories: dachau, holocaust,
Form: Free verse

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