Holocaust Weather Poems

Is that you there 
I recognize that stair
Those eyes of a faraway dream
Fancy seeing you here, on this twilight day 
While walking along this 
Sterile...

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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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Der Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A quick hug:
you were invited to...

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Prayer 

On Sunday, 
The saints gather…
Not the normal service, 
later, when others…
are home. 

They are quiet, 
and humble. 
They have come, 
to the house of...

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When one is renewed from a terrible disaster.
Usually it's something awful.  Recovering sometimes requires,
great strength, courage and wisdom.  Sometimes share will is
all it...

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Retrocognating
Devastating typhoon came
Sturdy than ever

Foretold its mighty
Long before hit the downhills
Flooding all over

Wandering chelas
Discerning how it may create
Learning to alter

Uniting mass wind
Resonates with  person's...

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