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Treblinka Poems - Poems about Treblinka

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

Premium MemberJoe 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



Premium MemberTravellers

...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

Premium MemberA Historic Event

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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



Premium MemberGone - 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

Premium MemberZieg 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

Premium MemberExclusive 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

Premium MemberSad 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

Premium MemberMade 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

Premium MemberInto 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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