Holocaust Time Poems

Showtime
Spontaneous combustion
Wow turnips in spring
Evolving
New leaf on life
Fall covers my eyes
My mind is blinded I cannot see
It's showtime
Everything's burning up
End of time
Humanities extinct

1/31/22
Written words by...

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blacken bones
ghostly galleons roam
sail endless seas dark 
deep the night washes 
over each soul 
that ride waves deep
drive the secret engines 
of the damned cross...

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Forever 

 Time is a word, without relevance or worth.
 Conceived by mankind, a distance from birth.
 If birth is the beginning, and death the...

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 END OF TIME

Smile
tormented, tear stained
blood flowing down the streets
to forever drift
end of time
Jesus is yet still coming here
a flickering candle on the table, a...

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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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Memorial Day – 2020... since time immemorial

crème de la crème strongest and bravest
forsook their lives eternal peace they rest
honored and revered succumbed mortal test.

(now pardon...

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Penny Postcard, Wrong Address
by Michael R. Burch

(for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust)

We saw their pictures:
tortured out of our imaginations
like golems.

We could not believe
in...

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(described in ~thirty lines of rhyme)

Might help explain how fruit
full this harmless poetic brute,
(a Methacton School of hard knocks
grad), who sports astute
demeanor with ample
brew netted...

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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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Time is

We talk about it often. 
Leaving here to find there. 
A place we can be together. 
A place where things can be…

Quiet, 
Hopeful, 
Joyful,...

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Luther Vandross recorded a song
that says something like
"We had the best love around...
We were the talk of the town."

I can't think of the last time
a...

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kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an...

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Ich binn ein Berliner
I somehow went to Berlin in 1937
it was time travel I can't explain
I saw the date on a newspaper in the Alexanderplatz
After...

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Dark Spells

As a clock running in black circles down
Distant stars lighting reddish fairy gowns,
Earthen pastures in darkness all aglow,
Awaiting dawn's eager cock to thrice crow.

Two...

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Murder of six million Jews
Murder through holocaust
Holocaust as foretold
Holocaust in scripture
Scripture Daniel 8:23-26
Scripture for the vision
Vision from an angel concerned
Vision in the distant future
Future came...

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