Short Auschwitz Poems

.......AUSCHWITZ....

10/4/2022...

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Starved of living
a life beleaguered
some welcome death...

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lost and weary soles
looking for their better half
at Auschwitz bone yard...

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           ~ from reality - brutal, cruel and poignant - love survived ~...

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Apex of mute dreams,
Rise above abandoned floors:
Pyramid of shoes.


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Inspired by the Auschwitz Shoes...

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A mountain of shoes,
Tower the valley of clothes:
Holocaust landscape.



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Inspired by the Auschwitz Shoes...

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The smell of leather,
Stirs the Auschwitz warehouses:
Leather reminders.


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Inspired by the Auschwitz Shoes...

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We ignored
that sound before, thunder
approaching, and paid a heavy price.
Never again! Empty
rhetoric?


 This poem is written in the new poetic form Tritriplicata...

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Mountains of leather,
Summit holocaust landscapes:
Valley of dead soles.







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Inspired by the piles of shoes
in the Auschwitz concentration camps...

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an Auschwitz survivor 
           at home now 
        no SS commandos
         no barking dogs
              no whips
           no crematoria
     enjoying his daily shower...

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Raymund Kolbe 1894-1941
Joined the Franciscan
Helped Nazi including Jews
Sent to Auschwitz was executed
St. Maximilian Kolbe

Written: 8142018
Poetry Form: Cinquain
Copyright © Jacqueline R. Mendoza...

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Peter Porter 'ANNOTATIONS of AUSCHwITZ


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In the name of holy smoke over the Auschwitz ...

it was needed to know how to place
right person
above
relating figure

receding 

men for the figure
horse
kingdom is misplaced

over no man's land only left is
c**t's smoke...

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Piano sheltered girls from being gassed
                        Instruments against Nazis play...





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Orchestra_of_Auschwitz


For the Single Crystalline Contest: "The Piano"
by Rick Parise...

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Blackened potato
            rock-hard tomato
          Piece of stale bread
            filthy mattress, a bed

          All luxuries at Auschwitz 
            Bergen-Belsen and Dachau
          The question is not why they
            survived ~ but How...

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From the ashes at Auschwitz 
    to the charred remains at Be'eri
  Generations of Jewish children
    bear witness to the same tragic story

  Mankind's searing hate for God's people
    the Jews
  We ask Him to strengthen us
    to see this new episode through...

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Auschwitz 
only following orders

Pushing corpses into the oven 
living now my only thought
survival keeping my uniform clean

I only did what I was told
loading bodies of the dead 
once bold soul now weak
bought n sold


Auschwitz 
Jewish guards 
Only following orders...

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meanness
cruel actions
human history
this being our legacy
before being submerged in our own heart-waste
what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor, Buchenwald
Dachau, Belzec, Chelmno, Warsaw, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen?
No more war....

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Indelible Ink 

Circa 1941 to 1943

A painful timely reminder

Lest we never forget

The inhumanity of man

Where you're only crime was to be born

Category A

Jewish male

Nazi death camp inmate 

No A-15510

1 of the few

Not the many

Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors

Yad Veshem...

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Nazi horror

          Auschwitz

Piles of shoes
 

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February 22, 2016


Poetry/Free Verse/Evil in Six Words
Copyright Protected, ID 16-760-327-0
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, Six Words
sponsor, John Lawless

First Place...

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In and around Auschwitz
Barbed wire still weeps
through too long denied rain.

In and around Annihilation
Denied climates fast creep
toward pathology's pain.

Through surrounding Anger
Charged hate denies sleep
for those who must explain.

In tyrannic Asps
Barbed boundaries sweep
out lies of monstrous strain....

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Two million soles collected
One million souls lost
Can humanity recover,
From the holocaust?

This stockpile of shoes
Is a reminder and clue
That what happened to them
Could happen to you.

Auschwitz reminds us
Of man’s inhumanity to man
If we can forget
It can happen again.



Entry in the Leather Voices contest...

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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 reflect
On the gates of Auschwitz, opened
To what no one would expect.

As antisemitism flares
And rears its ugly head,
We look back and remember
The survivors and the dead.
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Would a good God permit an Auschwitz
    Would a bad god grant Mother Theresa long life
  Would a good God turn Osama bin Laden loose
    Would a bad god have given Adam a wife

  When folks say they don't believe in God
    they mean a good God would never do bad
    while a bad God would never do good
      ~ though such a test is designed for childhood...

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Heart's silent scream
     lovers torn 
       from savaged arms

   Hunched over 
     bludgeoned into queue
       they disappear from view

    Auschwitz
      Bergen-Belsen
        Buchenwald
          Dachau ...  

    'Arbit Macht Frei'    *



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  *'Work sets one free.'
    Sign posted at the
    gates to Auschwitz
     ~ Hell on Earth....

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