Long Serbia Poems

Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
 
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...

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My 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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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti

Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...

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Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call me a foe, an antagonist, or a rival,
Don’t roll up...

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absolutely nothing stops the pipeline.

 

it penetrates all ways of life

all borders, all villages & towns---

the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare stand in the way

of its progress---

with black gold funneling back...

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Letter to My Wife
by Miklos Radnoti
translated by Michael R. Burch

A poem written during the Holocaust in Lager Heidenau, in the mountains above Zagubica, August-September, 1944

Deep down in the darkness hell awaits--silent, mute.
Silence screams in my...

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A malicious Ransomware is going around squeezing the life out of the town . A malicious Ransomware is going around tearing the covering off the roofs, beating down the doors and shaking the leaves off...

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I see you standing there shivering and forcing a smile. I see you standing there looking at me for a while. I wasn’t sure that it was you so I kept staring to figure out...

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Her name is Aunica, 
To some she is just another face
In an ordinary place
Another individual, of habit, manner, and style
An elderly stout woman whose brown face
Bares the stamp of her ethnicticity



Amongst the hustle of others...

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...This happened when we were undergrads,
but then in his graduate studies
when he was working towards a career
that was entwined with biology,
he was working with a group that sought
to raise up the national IQ,
and then Charlie,...

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in a cozy office in the US, 
maybe at langley, or
creech air force base,
north of vegas,
there is an officer watching video 
feeds of suspected targets in
“afghanistan, pakistan, bosnia, serbia, iraq, yemen,
libya & somalia,”
just to name...

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Ping Pong
A Game going on
Aus Govt \ DJOKOVIC
A Champion Vs Continent
Down Under A sport sinister
Short hearing Quick disbursal
He’s deported back to  Serbia!
“Expelled for not taking drugs “
Undefeated undeterred Play ON
Mandatory needles Comply  None
Healthy...

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That's it
I'm moving to Russia
to write with the kings
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
to sit in the cafes
and watch the pretty blond
Russik girls
Cook hot in winter
and get kicked out for talking too much
and knowing too much
and loving too...

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Gavrilo Princip wanted to kill the Arch-duke Franz Ferninand
To integrate Bosnian-born Serbians into the Greater Serbia
So with bombs and pistols supplied by the Serbian military
With another seven conspirators who positioned themselves
Along the route in Sarajevo...

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No matter how big the war 
whether nation against nation or
two men in a bar, the result is the same: 
		loss.
In my lifetime nearly constant war, and even before. 
And that is just those involving...

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(In late June, 1914, Austria declared war
on Serbia, thus initiating the First World War.
In Paris, this was ignored, because Henriette
Callaux had been found Not Guilty.  De
minimis non curat lex = "the law does not
extend...

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Black Angels search
As the world turns to grey
In soulless march
For their soulful prey
 
They congregate from places
Never heard of in many years
To wallow in their carnage
Spreading their demonic fears
 
Spirited from the underworld
The blackened depths...

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The Angel

Heart of Peace

In the hills and glens of the Bosnian homelands
Roamed the Serbian chetniks, with swords of the devil
In the name of nationalism
Raping and killing, burning and pillaging
Their aggressions they called it defending

Carkic the...

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Fallacious wars

 The war in Ukraine disturbs me greatly
Russia invaded and invasion is as we know illegal
with few exceptions like when NATO attacked  
Serbia, Bombed Belgrade hit the Chinese embassy and laughed about it.
Not...

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OCCUPATION DESTINATION  

Hey, remember the flamboyant Mr and Mrs Black,
Heard they are back,
And in actual fact,
Mr. lost his job, gave his boss too much flak!

Employees had gone missing, it was reputed
That something strange,
Was actually...

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Lawn Tennis at Wimbledon 



I watched tennis this afternoon
was a great event held every year,
semi final at Wimbledon, an important game 
in the heat, perspiration fell like tears

Was a Serbian and an Argentinian
both a credit...

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Iraq. Israel, Germany, Japan, 
Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, 
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,
Serbia,  South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
What do all of these nations have in common?
Each has a US military presence in their land,
and all of...

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a poetic heart ~
isolated and unique
as a Baikal Dzen

2 January 2021
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BAIKAL DZEN/ZEN
The rings are caused by warm, circular currents of water under the ice, called eddies. The eddies' strong currents melt the ice at the...

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