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:
doktor, evil, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Enough
...Enough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of end...
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Categories:
doktor, body, cancer, death, health,
Form: Light Verse
Straight Jacket Situation
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With a disorderly, syringe-induced slap,
dark thoughts welcomed
a groggy passenger to the padded wall madness
Foggy-eyed from the spinal needle tap,
involuntary entrance
was the ...
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Categories:
doktor, allusion, mental illness, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Walk With Me
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Come take a walk in the tombs with me,
go on a little late night graveyard stroll,
Let the vampire wing full moon silhouette
overshadow us in the chilly October rain
Let me kiss your...
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Categories:
doktor, fear, halloween, horror, scary,
Form: Free verse
Lepus October Moon
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Just skip to the scary part ...
Tricka coniculus
is arriving October soon
Lepus all be aware;
gotta treat the leper fearful ...
whose spotty, fretful poor hearts
can’t stand
to h...
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Categories:
doktor, dark, fear, horror, scary,
Form: Burlesque
Light Lettered Laughter
...The essence of wit is brevity
which interestingly evinces chivalry
delivered verdict to hex hoar size
(once and for all) president
dons mantle of deviltry
and trumps constitutional cr...
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Categories:
doktor, 12th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Light Verse
My Current Condition
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Video shock treatment
got my thoughts moving wavy ...
why ain’t my fear of the future
dawn misty dissipating?
This mental picture is getting more hazy
Dr. Strangelove says
the ot...
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Categories:
doktor, dark, fear, horror, scary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Doctrine of Death
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Open the book of wars,
tally up the numbers of the dead
Close the doors to the peace talk room,
have no one record what is said
They don’t want you to hear about
the sacrifices that w...
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Categories:
doktor, death, religious, truth, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Me No Speak Latin
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Disembarking from the Stygian ship
New arrival: They just gave me this button and T-shirt. I know what the
button say. It's in English, but the T-shirt ...
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Categories:
doktor, allegory, political, satire, war,
Form: Political Verse
Dr Korczak
...Pan doktor my children called me, an orphanage to run.
I was educated in their German homeland but polish born.
My children wrote a newspaper and ran their own law courts.
I created a place of l...
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Categories:
doktor, hero, history,
Form: Narrative