Holocaust Remembrance Day Poems

A siren sounds and movement stops – 
Pedestrians stand still
While cars and buses hit the brakes
And silence reigns until

Another siren breaks the spell;
Two minutes to...

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Thoughts on Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC 
 
Sam Adams  
Had never been  
To the Holocaust Museum,  
 
Despite the...

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as the Towers die away 
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll 
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental...

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Well! Damned Nation…
Oh. Hey! You there!
You are in a rush, 
I see.
Can you point me to the holly-caust?
Where the burn of sulfur flares? 
Ah yessss,...

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It may look skin deep but it goes all the way to a soul 

A scar on society and the skin of an innocent 

numerals...

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Penny Postcard, Wrong Address
by Michael R. Burch

(for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust)

We saw their pictures:
tortured out of our imaginations
like golems.

We could not believe
in...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2019
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Today, we honor those whose lives were cruelly taken!
They suffered gruesome deaths and were inhumanely forsaken.

Frightening, how we heard from the fourth...

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