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Holocausts Poems - Poems about Holocausts

Modern Concentration Stamps for Query

...Modern Concentration Stamps For Query 

Heights of subtly decide the best points for invention
Delights of brevity decide the next poetic composition
Insights of entropy reside and then collide i...
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Categories: holocausts, life,
Form: Rhyme

Jesus killers

...Jesus's killers
I looked up the Wikipedia to see if a man I had
known for thirty years but never met was there. Do
not exist, was the answer. I wrote my name also; it
appeared I didn't exist eith...
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Categories: holocausts, abortion, addiction, anger, beautiful,
Form: ABC



Premium MemberThe Cockroach Hotel

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Beneath the leaves 
One may find 
Scribbles of another kind 
Written there are hidden truths 
Collated by collective roots 
Stashed under a different roof 

Stored next to a bed of bark 
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Categories: holocausts, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Minor Eruptions

...Clubbing seal cubs
portends a rage for mass murder.

The tail wags the dog
and the offended march away
to slaughter strangers.

Generation after generation,
year after year,
small holocausts...
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Categories: holocausts, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Ladies in Jerusalem

...Ladies in Jerusalem 

I looked up the Wikipedia to see if a man I had known
for thirty years, but never met was there
Does not exist, was the answer
I wrote my name also; it appeared I didn't ex...
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Categories: holocausts, abortion, angst, anniversary, business,
Form: Blank verse



Premium MemberI CAN'T BREATHE -repost 2014

...I am being suffocated by causes.
Will we march Quixote-like
enraged by the spinning of the windmills?
We protest the wars carrying placards
while expecting others to carry arms,
praise God and w...
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Categories: holocausts, america,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberArm-in-Arm Awaiting

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      ‘I shall multiply your seed as the stars of heaven
          and as the sand on the seashore’*
       As if Father Abraham could count them all --
          at that very moment he stood so...
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Categories: holocausts, children, father, future, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFreedom from Hamas

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     ~ 'Rap-Style' ~

  Freedom from Hamas
     Freedom from Abbas

  Eliminate Sinwar
     No more war  

  Redevelop Gaza 
     with kosher shopping plazas... 

  From Transjordan to t...
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Categories: holocausts, jewish, pride, rap, strength,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberChildren of the Planets

...We are children of the planets,
We are children made of stars.
We once believed in a magic old man
Riding in an airborne sled.
With a bounty of unconditional love 
For every child, a bounty for ...
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Categories: holocausts, childhood, children, christmas, giving,
Form: Free verse

Humanity

...Humanity 



I looked up the Wikipedia to see if a man I have known for thirty years but never met was there. Do not exist, was the answer. I wrote my name also; it appeared I didn't exist either...
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Categories: holocausts, adventure, age, allusion, best
Form: Blank verse

Just To Inform You That the War Is Due To Expire On

...Dear Ukraine, I am sorry to have to inform you
that you must keep fighting and dying.

Dear Russia, your options are to die or kill.

We have arranged to end this unfortunate conflict
in 5 year...
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Categories: holocausts, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Generational Holocausts

...The term understates,
underrates the invisible numbers,
after the headlines, the quieted dead
dwindle to less than extraordinary.

Violence and cultural blight
are seen as side effects of afflu...
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Categories: holocausts, poetry,
Form: Free verse

You Made This

...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex wakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go e...
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Categories: holocausts, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The New Normal

...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex awakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go ...
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Categories: holocausts, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Blackest Day: Revisited

...as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental chaos 
cold rains passed through a n...
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Categories: holocausts, allegory, america, angst, change,
Form: Free verse

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