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Pogroms Poems - Poems about Pogroms

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: pogroms, destiny, hate, humanity, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: pogroms, children, father, future, god,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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Categories: pogroms, space, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: pogroms, humanity, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: pogroms, family, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: pogroms, anti bullying, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: pogroms, america, discrimination,
Form: Political Verse
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......

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Categories: pogroms, death, evil, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: pogroms, discrimination, hate, inspirational, jewish,
Form: Verse
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 ......

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Categories: pogroms, creation, food, immigration, international,
Form: Didactic
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......

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Categories: pogroms, absence, allusion, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
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......

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Categories: pogroms, evil, philosophy, political, rights,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: pogroms, america, christian, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: pogroms, anti bullying, earth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: pogroms, anxiety, racism, , atheist,
Form: Haibun

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