Holocaust Women Poems
These Holocaust Women poems are examples of Women poems about Holocaust. These are the best examples of Women Holocaust poems written by international poets.
Primo Levi Holocaust Poem: ShemaShema ("Listen")
by Primo Levi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable homes,
who return each evening to find
warm food and a hearty welcome...
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women, holocaust, house, jewish, men,
DestroyerHow to destroy a Black man
Keep him
Unemployed...
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women, africa, america, black african
Chinese SonnetsI
These days I forgive myself everything. After all
I'm alone and unhappy so I give myself a little treat
whenever possible. On summer nights I remember
the good...
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women, crazy, friend, grief, kiss,
Bahrain In BloodAnother example of Western hypocrisy,
Is Bahrain where they claim "Democracy",
A self-designed "Democracy" of dictatorship,
Which actually started from a pirate-ship,
In history you will find that some...
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women, abuse, america, anger, anniversary,
The WomenThe Women
(for the countless women, names unknown, who bore the brunt of Apartheid, and who fought the racist system at great cost to themselves and...
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women, courage, daughter, death, dedication,
The Nameless - For South Africans of All Colours Who Fought For FreedomThe Nameless
Slipping through the sieve of history,
the nameless rest.
Not for the nameless are roads renamed, nor monuments built.
Not for the nameless are songs sung, nor...
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women, black african american, dad,
The Petty Posh-Wahzee - Liberation and OstentationThe Petty Posh-Wahzee - Liberation & Ostentation
The Not-So Distant Past:
The fallen fighters for freedom, are unable to turn in their graves,
their battered, fragmented bones, mixed...
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women, allegory, angst, black african
A Story My Mother Told Mesomeone always told me this with tears in her eyes...
(for Lata Sethi's late-mother, who was my mother’s ‘sister’ and who took us all into her...
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women, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, grandmother,
Ashes To AshesFrom ashes
she rises,
absolving
cleansing,
face, hands, feet.
Four months,
Ten days,
She mourns.
She weeps.
She clothes herself now
in an adornment of white
bowing privately,
praying fervently,
as bitter...
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women, allah, brother, daughter, death,
Women WalkingWhile enjoying my walk in nature today,
Dark thoughts came to me...from far away
From our sisters in Africa and the Middle East
Who can not even walk...
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women, angst, inspirational, loss, people,