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My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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auschwitz, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
auschwitz, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
auschwitz, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-XviSonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
auschwitz, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld 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
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
auschwitz, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My History TeacherI 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 fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
auschwitz, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - IWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
auschwitz, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiiMy most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
auschwitz, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Etty's PenMy heart failed a few times again today, but each time it came back to life.
This is no time for poets and philosophers.
***
It is strange that in such a short time a person can come...
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Categories:
auschwitz, courage, dedication, eulogy, fate, holocaust, inspiration, life,
Form:
Free verse
Overarching GenocideOverarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
auschwitz, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Exclusive Birth RightsExclusive Birth Rights
I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration
though I propose without any diminution that systematic genocide is...
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Categories:
auschwitz, humanity, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Give Peace a Chance Part 2Yet Africa is
expected to fall in
line
With speed and
alacrity
Or be headed back to
Europe
For much deserved
censure
And sanitization in
the heart
Of brutish Europe!
Have we not seen
them in action
At Treblinka and
Auschwitz, brother
With their atomic
bombs in Hiroshima
With their...
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Categories:
auschwitz, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Made In NeonaziaMade in Neonazia
Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attraction
warm sand...
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Categories:
auschwitz, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Gone - VanishedWhen 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...
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Categories:
auschwitz, death, father, grief, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Holokauston
holókauston
Around that table picture the scene
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean
What were the topics on the agenda that day
The Jewish race is about to pay
Who gave the right...
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Categories:
auschwitz, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Train To AuschwitzIn nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train to Auschwitz in Poland
From Westerbork transit camp in the Nederland.
The...
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Categories:
auschwitz, abuse, death, evil, jewish, world war ii,
Form:
Narrative
Facial Recognition BluesFacial Recognition Blues
Physicists speculating about a cosmic hologram
Anarchists debating about the next message from Uncle Sam
The archaic ageing of the technology of the Telegram
An innocent waiting for an answer from an Annogram
Images of scientific...
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Categories:
auschwitz, angst, beautiful, corruption, integrity, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Epigrams IiiSpeechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.
Ko Un speaks for all of us, by not knowing what to say about the...
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Categories:
auschwitz, humor, literature, philosophy, poems, satire, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Beyond Realwhen Animal Farm is not a feeding manual
and Clockwork Orange strikes at midnight
Dali’s time piece warps under face value
and an eagle-eyed-cuckoo flies over its nest
beneath the cover of cotton candy clouds
she relieves herself into Magritte’s...
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Categories:
auschwitz, dream,
Form:
Free verse
AOC"AOC"
AOC, AOC,sitting on limbs of a dead
green tree,
Shooting innocent cows so merrily!
They must go, this socialist screams!
Deaf to God's creatures painful moos
and cries,
As their carcasses pile up to the skies.
And their sanguine blood soaking God's
earth,...
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Categories:
auschwitz, america, inspiration,
Form:
Political Verse
Fiddling AboutFiddling About.
by The Didds
Annual Concert, DMT, Time to act, you and me,
At Dauntsey School, a painted floor, performed in the round,
with rehearsals at Sheep Street church, St Joe's school hall, the con club...
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Categories:
auschwitz, grief, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
How You Sould Handle a Scandal and MoreHow You Sould Handle A Scandal
There Are many ways that things can handle;
Be safe, sane and secure instead of scandal;
Law abide;
Never lied;
Burn away the corruption with lighted candle.
Jim Horn
A Load of Poems
Poems in...
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Categories:
auschwitz, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
HeatFlies, drawn to their only sustenance, cloud around my head.
In this cloudless desert sky - blank, deep-arching cavern of thought -
Unblinking sun stares down but this fire-bird will not fly,
Has no...
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Categories:
auschwitz, adventure, water, water,
Form:
Free verse
Who Was Lizzie Van ZylWho was Lizzie Van Zyl?
A small girl stands on Woodcock Bridge
Pointing at her reflection in the water.
The glint from the sun, and a cold wind,
Distorts a distant memory of gold, and places long forgotten.
For the...
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Categories:
auschwitz, history, girl, birth, girl,
Form:
Free verse
The Train To AuschwitzIt was a glorious day in 1943,
The kind of day you wish to hug your children carefree.
The frozen Polish Winter winds were almost dying,
The golden promise of Summer made everything sing,
It was very sunny on...
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Categories:
auschwitz, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC