A Poem For My History Teacher
...I wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics f...
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Categories:
eichmann, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
A Historic Event
...cattle trains on track to nowhere
selection …right left right left
the smell of burnt skin fear and violence
compost of history for the rose garden
gold teeth extracted prior to death
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Categories:
eichmann, anger,
Form: Free verse
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:
eichmann, death, father, grief, universe,
Form: Free verse
Eichmann
...The clear, sweet evil of that simple name,
so redolent of sweaty viciousness,
of Spite is Right, of sin divorced from blame,
of seedy placemen, bloated with success,
did not fit with his flin...
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Categories:
eichmann, history,
Form: Sonnet
Falling Into Books
...And I disappeared back into the books,
Whirling in a seamless stream of context,
By whose scarlet blood I assumed some looks,
Forevermore ready for what was next.
From this moment on I could no...
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Categories:
eichmann, books, identity, inspirational, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Typewriter
...Gabriel A. Levicky
A DEAD TYPEWRITER
OR
1000 + 1 JUDEN VERLASSEN*
Here I go again!
The not-so blind date
With history
Narrowed my and-I-thought-they-have-seen-everything eyes.
All I can touch
Is...
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Categories:
eichmann, political, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Kelsuke De Eichmann
...Kelsuke de Eichmann was a man of little yet complex words.
He used the word translucent instead of the phrase see-through.
One thing he knew how to do well was break a heart:(
He would see a flaw ...
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Categories:
eichmann, fantasywoman, women, red, women,
Form: Narrative
Romanus " Romania "
...Romanus country
Romania to us
Iron curtain frontier
Dismantled by fuss
Like us all invaded
But by Goths and the Huns
Typical past history
Populations on the run
The Ottoman Empire, absorbe...
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Categories:
eichmann, history, life, loss, peace,
Form: Rhyme