Whisperings of a Hostage
...People from all nations running for Their Lives, Pursued by Hamas.
That day 1,200 were slaughtered.
International hostages died! Few live ones do remain.
I do not even know what day thi...
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Categories:
sabra, abuse, bullying, cry, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here wa...
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Categories:
sabra, holocaust, race, racism, truth,
Form: Free verse
It'Ll Be Fine
...I am a Sabra,* *A native-born Israeli
Uzi** at the ready; **Submachine gun (standard army issue)
Confident, brave:
"Yi'hi'ye tov!"*** ***"It'll be f...
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Categories:
sabra, confidence, conflict, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Stanford Experiment
...(For six days in mid-August, 1971, at Stanford
University near San Francisco, a psychological
experiment was conducted in which students
took on the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
The ...
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Categories:
sabra, society,
Form: Rhyme
Song
...Led down from the tower
Head high and hands bound
Blindfold declined against the wall
Black square pinned to his heart
His eyes afire and shining
And he sang...
He sang of Caruso, Townes Van ...
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Categories:
sabra, inspiration, music, places, poems,
Form: Free verse
For Lo, the Winter Is Past An Israeli - Sabra Love Poem For Contest
...FOR LO, THE WINTER IS PAST
For Lo, the winter is past
The rains are gone
Glorious are you in the eyes of the sun
Your warmth binds me
The flush dawning world is ours
Victoria Anderson-Throop ©
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Categories:
sabra, devotion, hope, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Summer (Cameo)
...Summer
Sabra
chocolate orange
Singing taste of tupelo mead
memories
still tease and test my thirsty tongue
I stand in chocolate mint
Alone...
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Categories:
sabra,
Form: I do not know?