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WW2
It started with a man
Born in 1889
Everybody knows his name
He's a villain
Your going to hear what happened
He did it on purpose
It started in 1939
Lasted 6 years
People are dying
The USA stays out...
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Categories:
holocaust, war, world war
Form: Free verse
russia ukraine warrussia ukraine war
soldiers braving unending attacks
dead alive civilians braving unending attacks
like sino-india war,preparing for the inevitable
blood rain on trees resound
salute to the martyr ghost of the kiev
soldiers braving unending attacks
dead alive civilians braving unending attacks
like...
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Categories:
grave, holocaust, pain, soldier,
Form: Sonnet
Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom Hashoah
Thoughts on Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC
Sam Adams
Had never been
To the Holocaust Museum,
Despite the fact
He had lived
And worked in DC...
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Categories:
discrimination, holocaust, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Dear Cousin,You gave away everything.
You did, didn’t you?
You didn’t choose, you had to.
Beaten, broken, smashed, thrashed.
Mind and body, even soul.
They took your name, I never got it.
Did you even have one?
Were...
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Categories:
holocaust, anger, family, hate, history,
Form: I do not know?
ACTS OF WAR V: Mother Russian
Hay now, now sing this corrosion
Of winter wastes and Red stars white nights
And waring tribes a bully on the block
To kick you when your down
The ones meek and mild
But can stand tall...
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Categories:
holocaust, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Neon Dreams
And demons scream
Into the crowded sky
Of lands built in absence of mind
Of neon dreams, diners,
Haunted Malls n parking funeral lots
A ghost nation walking the wastes
Of neon dreams n marketing schemes
Hell is in the ancient schemes
Of...
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Categories:
holocaust, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Feeling YoungFeeling Young
Quiet is the morning,
the sun coming over the mountains...
in the distance.
Not quickly,
but exactly at the right time.
The day has begun.
The birds are singing,
and the flowers are looking up...
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Categories:
holocaust, age, angel, happiness, heaven,
Form: Free verse
When the Engines Feast II
Kings of lizards
The great multi-horned beast
A rise in the east,
The prodigal son
Coming in the Fire
Of mythic Agamemnon!
As the beast lay waste to Dominion…
Divinities promise oblivion,
When the engines feast, the...
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Categories:
holocaust, allegory, allusion, america, art,
Form: Free verse
Staring Into Hitler EyesStaring into Hitler’s eyes
In twenty-twenty two
The world looks away in fear
Not knowing what to do
We tell ourselves we’re civilized
There’s no longer use for war
So we set aside the truth...
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Categories:
america, anger, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Kashmir FileBoth sides want Land
Both sides want Kashmir
Both sides want Milk
Both sides want Kheer
No one wants Ranjha
Both sides want heer.
What could be more devastating than a piece of land.ARK...
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Categories:
earth, holocaust, paradise, power,
Form: Classicism
RAPTURE DAWN-The sound of the trumpet rallys on
The composition of the skies was blur
Every shallow wind shifted soon the sky's turned
The trumpet sound
Rains armies of angels on white stallions
Descending at the head of them Jesus
Apocalyptic
Past the...
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Categories:
engagement, heaven, holocaust, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Not very far
The world is at war;
Destruction is not very far.
Every nation has its reason;
Therefore, war has no season.
We still feel many of its deep scars;
The progress we made sure it mars.
It’s time to...
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Categories:
holocaust, war,
Form: Rhyme
The Hell of DachauWalking 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 bodies,
Seeing their bones, these skeletons,
Barely walking
Barely moving
Bringing...
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Categories:
death, dedication, emotions, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
The middleThis isn't the middle the beginning or the end
This is the middle of the beginning of the end
acting like children
Don't try to pretend
you can't see
The hidden agenda
within
They're telling us lies
and feeding...
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Categories:
change, discrimination, freedom, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Blacker Than BlackThere is evil that offends evil.
There is black that is blacker than black.
There is fault-free blood that is a running river.
There is inhumanity that supercedes insanity.
How shall we call it, write it, remember it?
Putin is...
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Categories:
child abuse, corruption, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
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