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Nuremberg Poems - Poems about Nuremberg

The Thing

...The things of which we cannot speak
Make us become we cannot say
The thing brought back from yesterday
That praised the strong and crushed the weak

That thing whose name we cannot name
That fa...
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Categories: nuremberg, america, anger, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberthat sucking sound

...(a poem in Senryus)

They say that you should
never follow whisky with
beer - but my new rhyme

is - never follow
several martinis with
two more martinis

Ladies, please take my
advice, yo...
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Categories: nuremberg, drink, education, forgiveness, health,
Form: Senryu



The War That List Score -Pt2

...With no end in sight and a year has passed. 
Kremlin won’t admit their forces are gassed. 
So they keep their foot on the wrong pedal. 
Exhausting their labor and supply of metal. 

Playing chic...
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Categories: nuremberg, anti bullying, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOld Man and a Baby

...Whisper this in your baby's ear
science poses little fear.
Though still primitive and childlike,
it finds first tracks on which to strike.

Billions spent on science research
scantly more than ...
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Categories: nuremberg, appreciation, child, earth, future,
Form: Couplet

It Came In Our Dreams

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“It Came in Our Dreams”

The Others 
watch on,
somewhere above us.

we, ant like
form our battalions
soldier ants 
with no substantial sting
repelling reptilian 
brai...
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Categories: nuremberg, dream, humanity, war, world,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberI Love You

...What can I write, a mere mortal, to an angel?
What has not been written before 
more eloquently than I can ever dream?

Pen in hand, I glance at you over my glasses
Older now, as we are both, ye...
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Categories: nuremberg, love,
Form: Free verse

Waffen Ss Guard Nazi War Criminals

...When the Germans invaded Latvia and Estonia
They decided these people would have 3rd Reich favours
And so they recruited or drafted young men into the Waffen SS 
Who fought on the Eastern Front ba...
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Categories: nuremberg, war,
Form: Epic

Imaginary Conversation With Covid-19

...Covid-19, do you run
on some evil foot 
out of sight,
beneath the light
till your Napoleonic march
brings you to rout?

Or out of habit
Do you lust for old flesh
due to a generation gap?

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Categories: nuremberg, age, allusion,
Form: Acrostic

Nuremberg To Washington

...Nuremberg, Nuremberg, I’ve done nothing wrong
only followed orders, the children only song.
First it was the word, next it was the book
then it was history, surreptitiously they took.

From a ch...
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Categories: nuremberg, angst, anxiety, political, society,
Form: Rhyme

Revolutions

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"Revolutions"




7

We are all for the Fall
in the seasons of His hands
where He pulls in the strings 
of all His puppets 
calling in cold l...
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Categories: nuremberg, faith, god, i am,
Form: Free verse

Holocaust

...Holocaust 

1941 Adolf Hitler became head of the Germans,
Throughout the years, this was determined.
Disliking the Jews,
he wouldn’t listen, to their views.
Nuremberg Law, was put in place
The...
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Categories: nuremberg, history,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMein Kampf My Struggle

...…the seeds of neo-Nazism are germinating  
Markus Nierth, former mayor of Tröglitz, Germany 2015

Germany’s rock candy windows and cookie like shingles make seeing the oven inside impossible. At f...
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Categories: nuremberg, anxiety, racism, , atheist,
Form: Haibun

Nuremburg Notation

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When ruling orders are given,
subordinates must make it so
If they are evil decisions,
then lesser ranks should not yield their integrity
They should have enough moral fortitude to say n...
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Categories: nuremberg, evil, history, judgement, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberSlithering Tides of War

...War crime trials had come and gone
And Nuremberg became old news
But there were some who would escape
They packed their bags, with no remorse
Changing names, and hid away
They had shamed the...
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Categories: nuremberg, evil, holocaust, war,
Form: Free verse

The Caricature

...The Caricature 
You like to label it as a nefarious empire
 brought to power by an unpropitious circumstance
paint a picture of evil and malfeasance
blood soaked canvas is the final image 
mass ...
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Categories: nuremberg, history,
Form: Free verse

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