Short Ww2 Poems

In WW2 Sweden sheltered
    Jews in desperate need

  Today Swedes burn a Torah scroll
     a brutish, dastardly deed...

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Edward Bawden's graphic art
had Bardfield village at its heart
Also an artist of WW2 
captured, interned& lost from view...

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Planes like dragonflies
skimming over the pond*
~Pearl Harbor

*Japanese torpedo aviator remembering December 7, 1941...

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   My father, a WW2 vet
   My mother too
     On Veterans Day they first met

   They got married on Vets Day too 
     ~ I hope some day to fill their shoes...

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"After Auschwitz, there is no poetry" - Theodor W. Adorno

hope nailed to the cross
mankind at its darkest hour
there's no forgetting



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 23, 2025...

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Triggars clicking,
Men shooting,
aeroplanes flying,
bombs dropping,
bones breaking,
trees snapping,
people dying,
letters sending,
women crying,
peace starting,
children learning,
earth changing....

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Ivon Hitchens a !e!ber of the 7&5
ww2 managed to survive
His horizontals resemblethe wide-screen
images to believe&be seen*

*https://www.castlegatehouse.co.uk/paintings-for-sale/ivon-hitchens/dark-landscape-1944/...

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Lee bridged the race divide
when prejudice had nowhere to hide-
Riding a mustang in the sky
His deeds gave bigotry the lie,
sterotyping his,to defy.

Tribute to Lt-Colonel Lee Archer (1919-2010) WW2 fighter pilot and VP of General Foods who 
died this past week...

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my grandpa was an ex-KAR soldier 
that was before he died
he fought in WW2 as a teenager
but the so called hero
by the ones who wrote our history
was not able to build himself a house
a story of war
must a soldier fight for what's not his?
put in a course he cannot alter?...

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   Remember America’s humanitarian aid 
      to Germany’s Nazis
         and Japan’s Kamikazes
            during daring WW2 raids

   Funny, I don’t remember it either…

   But I know the reason
     giving aid and comfort to a terrorist enemy
        is properly classified as treason 
...

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female collaborator,
passionate romantic lover,
despicable and unforgivable traitor
or cringing victim of horrendous war-rape
they know not.

shave her head
in a grotesque ceremony 
of humiliation
they do
nevertheless.

such are the ways of the human,
despicable morally 
in group
as she is....

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Counting Numbers

750,000 dead in the Civil War
116,000 dead in WW1-The War to end all wars
420,000 dead in WW2-So much for ending war
38,000 dead in Korea-A police action
58,000 dead in ‘Nam-Save the world from communism
8,000 dead in Afghanistan/Iraq-Make the world safe from terrorism
?????? dead the next war-Make the world????????
When can we stop counting?
...

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Who voted for Adolf Hitler? Almost everybody. No matter which party or candidate chosen. It was done with the fascist attitude of the immoral majority. Sometimes in a disguise. Donald Duck is now Donald Schmuck.(in memory of those of my maternal ancestry who perished in Treblinka concentration camp in Nazi Germany occupied Poland during the WW2 era and in honor of Hannah Arendt. Amen.)...

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There is a lot of talk about terrorists today,
but very little discussion on why they became that way.
My father was a marine during WW2,
and I am sure that in the eyes of the Japanese he was a terrorist too.
One individual's terrorist is another's freedom fighter,
making one form of warfare more acceptable than the other,
to which I must say, "That is absolutely ridiculous.
All forms of warfare are most atrocious."...

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An old-fashioned modern Jew
  He was brilliant, unique
Weaving the strands of tradition
  Into best-selling novels sleek 

A Navy man, aboard a WW2 mine-sweep
  Mr. Wouk loved letters, his country, and
Talmudic wisdom, from which his works drew deep


   
 Herman Wouk, the prolific novelist and
 lifelong student of the Talmud, has 
 passed on to his Maker today, at the
 tender age of 103.  May he rest in peace......

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WW1
and after bloody ww1
 our returning boys,
were bloody numb,
to walk the roads,
 with a swag outback,
to live on rabbit on the track,
half crazed from bomb and gas attack,
as crazy seen by some,
old soldiers on their rum,
when they could get em some,
outback...

re: Dave Williams excellent "The King's Shilling"

Don Johnson

World War One 1914-1918

WW2 Aussie soldiers, were five bob a day murderers, they quipped:)...

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you rhyming again,
Russell ole friend,
stay clear of the bloody green fence,
witches n warlocks and the mad n insane,
are waiting 4 recompense:)

the guys from the war, 
have been there before, 
they sidestep away,
 they aint dense,
they dont want no locking,
 of the bloody great gate, 
no putting behind the green fence...

ww2 soldiers a bit crazed were frightened by the green fence and the lectric shocks etc 


re:'Inside the Spooky Fence'

Russell Sivey.....


Don...

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