Decapitated
The children were pulverized, decapitated,
Their flesh was ripped apart.
This is the land of the free,
And the home of the brave.
Good guys with guns waited an hour.
19 students and 2 teachers were murdered.
The children were pulverized, decapitated,
Their flesh was ripped apart.
We need AR-15 rifles to kill prairie dogs.
We need AR-15 rifles because they are semi-automatic.
11-year-old Miah
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Categories:
mass murder, america, children, grief, horror,
Form: Didactic
Mass Transit
Where is the mass transit sending people to?
Dispatch of souls to places unknown
See the loading ramp down by the barracks
A place to herd them into vehicles
What type vehicles and for what use?
A bus to drive them to a spar resort
A truck to take them to the firing squad
A space shuttle to take them off world
A
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Categories:
mass murder, absence, conflict, violence, war,
Form: Blank verse
Ko Un Translation of the Holocaust Poem Speechless
Speechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation/interpretation 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 evidence of the Holocaust, and man's inhumanity to man.
Ko Un was speechless at Auschwitz.
Someday, when it’s too late,
will we
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Categories:
mass murder, holocaust, horror, race, racism,
Form: Epigram
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust 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 and imagination all steadily increase;
the road whinnies and bucks, neighing; the maned sky gallops;
and you are eternally with me, love,
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Categories:
mass murder, death, grave, holocaust, horror,
Form: Free verse
The Amok of Pedro By Robinson Cavalcanti
Pedro, the traitor of Jesus Christ
This man, if he could be called a man
Killed 12 followers of Christ
Like a crazed Wolfman
Pedro firstly meet with Christ in a forest
Christ asked him if he had mercy of other people
Pedro answered: Yes.
Christ presented him 12 followers of him
Pedro was excited. He never had any followers
Jesus said: they were
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Categories:
mass murder, murder,
Form: Narrative
Haiku Attempt 1 the Mass Murder
A Shotgun Gleaming
Spent Shells make noise in the forceful wind
Bodies lay lifeless
Note: Still learning how to create haikus feedback and help much appreciated!
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Categories:
mass murder, death, violence,
Form: Haiku
Mass Murder Manifesto
As I wake I feel the urge to kill again
No reason for it, don’t care that it’s a sin
Kill them all, every last one
End their lives until there are none
Rip the flesh, taste the blood
Such delight, comes on like a flood
It feels so good, to make them bleed
All the years, my warnings they didn’t
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Categories:
mass murder, murder,
Form: Lyric