Short Survivors Poems

expanding balloon;
a golden glimmering sphere
-strenghth of survivors....

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Terrorist carnage
Home returning survivors-
An empty stroller.
        Abdelwaheb Dhaou....

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childhood trauma strengthened her resolve
heartfelt survivors instinct
perilously fearless...

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passion pink spring snow
on tsunami survivors
showers new hope

deborah burch©
07/10/12...

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Stop staring! Holocaust survivors!
Oprah! Ann & Nancy Wilson!
Mother! Brother! Father! Friends!
Can’t you see I’m no longer a man?...

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My mother and aunts
All suffered from breast cancer
Mom’s right breast removed

She had the choice to abort
But she risked her life for me...

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The people who were still alive
Helped other survivors revive
All this didn’t bother
An excellent father
Who just taught his daughter to drive...

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Rendezvous with death,
War ravages everyone;
Carnage for vultures.
There are survivors, untouched;
Emotions are ravaged, through.
 ...

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Ashes are all around me, like a pompeii horror scene
Scorching lava incinerates the weak and unexpected
Demoralized survivors rise up and rebuild from nothing...

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Whenever I'm feeling depressed 
in my world so very dark,
I think about the holocaust victims and survivors
and realize that my life is a walk in the park....

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I have absolutely no right feeling so depressed because of all my loss,
at least not when you compare my losses with the victims and survivors of the holocaust....

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TV Reality

Survivors of Amazing Race
met The Nanny whose Big Brother
was The Bachelor who 
had an Extreme Makeover
in 48 Hours



Addictive Characterization...

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ears wiggle
       fingers waggle
     girls giggle
       customers haggle

     curlicues squiggle
       snail-pack straggles
     belly-fat wriggles ~
       survivors bedraggled...

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The Titanic is loading now at the White House dock
     Smiling alligators and crocodiles boarding unaware

  Theirs will be a voyage with no survivors
     The Lord, no Charge d'affaires...

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Spaceship explodes,
Many die,
Warm world
Survivors surprised
to find a half-buried
saucer nearby,
So many secrets to gleam.

In the light of the star-beam...
Or is it just an imaginative dream?...

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Not having much
A helpful hand
Keeps the poor 
On dry land

Having it all
To the rich it's free
Given boats
To sail the sea

Left to drowned
The middle class
Creating the survivors
That will outlast...

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The 
Scary
Bermuda 
Triangle

Lore
Legends
Ghostly planes
hundreds missing

books
ledgers
documents
first hand accounts

fine 
tales
campfire
conversation

so
many
pulled from sky
no survivors...

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 my quest for my Self
and awareness of my search
cannot be two: but One Truth

(c) DEDICATION: To all who asked, and keep asking, for Job-like questions of the Universe. To SURVIVORS of 07/07. shalom, shalom...

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You
are beautiful.
like the moon.
cracked and cratered.

You
life meteors.
bombard.

You
do not pull away.
from the earth.
enlightened and light.


-maria
11.8.15
*remembering typhoon haiyan victims and survivors...

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Lived eighty-five years, seen the good and bad
But it couldn't have been better, the time I've had
In spite of turmoil then and now
Made it through, don't know how
Us homo sapiens are survivors and a courageous band...

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Lived eighty-three years, seen the good and bad
But it couldn't have been better, the time I've had
In spite of turmoil back then and now
Made it through, don't know how
Homo sapiens are survivors and a courageous band...

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frigid winds
slice through
forlorn survivors

vicious viruses
infect
silently

ignoble trolls
incinerate
merrily

loitering crowds
frolic
mindlessly

tis the season
for 
force-fed
forgettable 

FOLLY...

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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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God blitzed Sodom & Gomorrah
Including fauna & flora
Putin says, "Me, too!
I am just like you
Blasting that Box of Pandora!"  

n.b.  after blowing up their home
and family, Russian troops
tell survivors that they have
been liberated from the Nazis! ...

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Homes are destroyed
A terrible catastrophe leaves families without warmth or food
It shakes down poor children and takes their parents 
The survivors are struggling for another meal... and the beast,
It leaves utter devastation behind but echoes with its leftovers...

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