Holocaust Sonnet Poems

israel america playing soccer 
with beheaded palestinian face
back to stone age
world is on stand
arab military parliament to nuke attacking nations
such is israel palestine war
free palestine

israel...

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Palestine

Hamas fighters, the brave men and women who 
fights for a free Palestine have been killed in the Gaza Strip
together with wives and children.
And once...

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Hear them pray for the last time,
their leather boots no protection still.
Listen to the church bell chime.
Hear the men ordering to kill.

Turn off the radio.
Stop...

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earth sinking
equator like northpole-southpole tunnel bisecting earth
cities clocking population reduction 
countries resourceless in failed planet
people aspiring for bi-planet citizenship
india shown it's place

earth resolution on it's...

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A new home

Waiting to go home to my house in Algarve, 30 years after 
the Berlin wall fell with the blessing of Russia, in case...

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russia ukraine war

soldiers braving unending attacks
dead alive civilians braving unending attacks
like sino-india war,preparing for the inevitable

blood rain on trees resound
salute to the martyr ghost of...

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The Unbiassed Media

Bombs rain on Gaza, the youth throw stones, the Israeli soldiers killed 
or maim stone throwers, a dance of death.
What do the leading...

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A spark erupts, setting alight a formidable flame.
Casting ascending vivid flickers of amber gleaming.
Ignited fervor, unbeknownst from whence it came.
The ominous blaze glares through the...

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Sonnets LXXI-LXXX

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do...

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struggle for survivalist
houses crumbling
it is row of red mutton on butcher hook
next is you
why cheerup India

family system turned down
houses crumbling
it is row of red mutton...

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motion of planetary bodies
formed mud earth
and India appeared
why save India only

natural phenomenon bisected continent
part sailed to edge
and India appeared
why save India only

murderers of father of...

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911 Carousel
by Michael R. Burch

“And what rough beast ... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”—W. B. Yeats

They laugh and do not comprehend, nor ask
which way...

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There are many who Holocaust deny,
those who refuse the mass Nazi killing; 
a hoax,  just lies-   to convince us they try,
historical facts...

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Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves and...

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Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
											
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is...

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