In Memoriam of a Broken Family
...Remembered the 1940s, the season of the holocaust.
Six million irons, disjointed from their ores
Were forged in bottomless pits of anvils.
The swarming bees in a ceremonious buzzing
Were uncouple...
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Categories:
treblinka, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Joe In Wonderland
...We've a third string coach running the team
who can't even remember his own play book
so a batch of amateurs
are running the show
from the bench
from the trenches
of their minds
Its a play ...
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Categories:
treblinka, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Travellers
...They still label us as gipsies and tinkers
but it is them with the blinkers
everyone is a migrant
and our culture is vibrant
let us not forget about Treblinka
23rd February 2021...
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Categories:
treblinka, abuse,
Form: Limerick
A Historic Event
...
History cried out at a heinous cost
'Twas when millions of Jews their lives had lost
Dead bodies in concentration camps filled
In the name of Anti-Semitism, killed
Pogroms, mass shoot...
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Categories:
treblinka, death, evil, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Ghosts of Glory
...Ghosts of Glory
They came to Auschwitz and Treblinka...
they tore down the walls that confined us.
How we wept with joy as the SS officers
were taken away - we spit in their path,
those of u...
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Categories:
treblinka, angst, holocaust,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Gone - Vanished
...When I was young, my father wrote poems, lovely poems, in Yiddish.
In one poem, he called me, his only son, his 'kadish'l, the one who would recite the Kaddish, the Prayer for the Deceased, for him ...
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Categories:
treblinka, death, father, grief, universe,
Form: Free verse
Behind the Barbed Wire
...Behind the barbed wire
Behind the barbed wire a cherry tree blooms:
bustling petals in the land of death.
Behind the barbed wire a gradient runs
between the scent of flowers
and the omnipresen...
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Categories:
treblinka, conflict, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Warfare
...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, Sobibo...
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Categories:
treblinka, war,
Form: Suzette Prime
Zieg Heil
...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 Don...
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Categories:
treblinka, appreciation,
Form: Blitz
Exclusive Birth Rights
...Exclusive Birth Rights
I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration
though I propose wit...
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Categories:
treblinka, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
...SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder
Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become darker
I am also affected a...
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Categories:
treblinka, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
Made In Neonazia
...Made in Neonazia
Life wrote you and I this poem on a sunny day of watching
penguin’s colonies bathing on the beaches near Cape Town
A splendid display of harmony of sun ocean and tourist attrac...
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Categories:
treblinka, evil,
Form: Free verse
Fiddling About
...Fiddling About.
by The Didds
Annual Concert, DMT, Time to act, you and me,
At Dauntsey School, a painted floor, performed in the round,
with rehearsals at Sheep Street church, St Joe's school...
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Categories:
treblinka, grief, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Into the Light: Safe Haven, 1944
...INTO THE LIGHT: SAFE HAVEN, 1944
“And you that shall cross from shore to shore…are more
to me and more in my meditations, ...
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Categories:
treblinka, celebration, holocaust, remember, voyage,
Form: Verse
Give Peace a Chance Part 2
...Yet Africa is
expected to fall in
line
With speed and
alacrity
Or be headed back to
Europe
For much deserved
censure
And sanitization in
the heart
Of brutish Europe!
Have we not seen
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Categories:
treblinka, peace,
Form: Free verse
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