Pogroms Poems

Banish the Darkness - 2022

...“If someone besides a black ever sings the real gut bucket blues, it’ll be a Jew. We both know what it’s like to be someone else’s footstool.”
     -Ray Charles

Author’s note: this is a companion...

Arm-in-Arm Awaiting

...
      ‘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...

Springtime on the Donets

...Clownish yaw engines
Spin us about
The blue sphere we inhabit
Its future in doubt

Our cumulus cloud shroud
Conceals the pain
Of tanks, missiles and pogroms
And unburied slain...

Werner Chapel

...god is 
what I don't know
high Gothic arches pierce the sky
to commemorate a body 
washed ashore on the bank of the Rhine
that inspired a wave of pogroms in 1287
a body, that became a saint
a ...

Women In My Family

...Women in my family
Who remember the morning Grandma passed
Recall a loving woman with no malice
Who left a void that would last and last

From the pogroms she fled as a girl of eight...

Please Do the Popular Jeru Song and Dance

...Instead of bombing, shelling and trashing our neighbors
Let’s all do the highly popular fun ‘Jeru’ dance
By ‘Jeru’, I mean the Jerusalema beats and vibes
Of South Africa. My friends, imagine that ...

A City

...The days are long and painful
The nights are long and bare
Those alleys, hard and brutal
Between buildings built with care

Springtime held a promise
Its lilac on the wind 
Summer opened its h...

A Historic Event

...
History cried out at a heinous cost 
'Twas when millions of Jews their lives had lost 
Dead bodies in concentration camps filled 
In the name of Anti-Semitism, killed 

Pogroms, mass shoot...

Injustice, Survive -- and Thrive

...Those who today loudly voice their complaints
   Might do well to study a people most quaint
The Jewish People for 3,332 years has survived
   Despite pogroms and holocausts, still quite alive

...

Israel and Palestinians Won My Heart - How and Why

...1. Emirates (UAE) that has not officially recognized Israel, made a historic flight to Ben Gurion Airport to deliver several tons of aid to "Palestinians." WEST-BANK refused the aid. Why? It was not ...

Anti This and That

...The anti this…
 We can be anti this and anti that
say, our hatred of Muslims is there but not deep
and is often based on ignorance.
But we have to face the fact that anti-Semitism
is in the psyc...

Number of Man

...Number of Man
(Webster’s Ninth)

Money trail reveals factor
To assemble humans follow layout
Swat down charges with linguistic racket
Sticks more effective than carrot da...

Stereotypologies

...If you were a Christian
during various Inquisitions
and pogroms against Jewish communities
and aboriginal tribes,

If you had been a Christian slave owner
trading lack of co-empathic love
for ...

Only Regrets

...Dear Donald John,

I could be wrong
yet you're not twitterish right
in singing Earth's happiless song.

What normal healthy
Left-Right wealthy
care most about
is what you continue
not respo...

Mein 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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