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Autumn World War Ii Poems

These Autumn World War Ii poems are examples of World War Ii poems about Autumn. These are the best examples of World War Ii Autumn poems written by international poets.

Japan At War

Japan At War

Japan wages war
winds bring clouds lullabying
Mount Fuji to sleep.
            ***

Note:  ...

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Categories: world war ii, art, history, war, world

Symbols In Flight: 1941

I'd have loved to see the bluebirds fly
above the white chalk-cliffs of Dover--
and as they were blithely soaring over,
immersed in thought I'd lie
in calm repose...

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World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner

World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass

Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

These skies
are...

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Categories: world war ii, evil, holocaust, race, racism,

World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - I

World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)

These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew....

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Categories: world war ii, evil, holocaust, racism, truth,

Without Shudder Or Sound

I remember the time, I remember the place. I remember his eyes, I remember his face.

That’s what he said to me watching the leaves fall...

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Categories: world war ii, age, cry, dark, memory,

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa 
the panzers start to roll,
Breaking out from Poland’s Baltic,
towards Sevastopol, 
Ten million soldiers strong,
go goose-stepping east,
The Fuhrer’s Wehrmacht, 
alongside his waffen SS elite.

No...

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Categories: world war ii, allegory, allusion, america, world

Yamaguchi Seishi Haiku Translations

Yamaguchi Seishi haiku modern English translations

Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt.
—Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Ceaseless chaos—
ice floes clash
in the Soya straits.
—Yamaguchi...

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Categories: world war ii, animal, earth, nature, seasons,

Ber Horvitz Translations of Holocaust Poems

Translations of Holocaust poems by Ber Horvitz aka Ber Horowitz

Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray ...
I...

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Categories: world war ii, holocaust, horror, race, racism,

Cleansings

Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch

Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good,...

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Categories: world war ii, holocaust, prison, race, racism,

Something: Holocaust Poem

for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba

Something inescapable is lost—
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust...

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Categories: world war ii, absence, holocaust, horror, violence,

The Back Door

In our neighborhood during the second world war
At the side of each house were a porch and a door.
And, believe it or not, it was...

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Categories: world war ii, childhood, history, house, mother,

Epilog To Island Hopping

EPILOG
			     to
		ISLAND HOPPING
			     By

		JOHN M. ARRIBAS 
	



I’ll meet my old fellow travelers soon, any day
They may not...

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Categories: war, world war ii,

The Woman and Her Rifle

Her long, flowing, black hair
sways in the autumn breeze 

silence speaks, she is silent 

a lonely bullet lays in the chamber 
her hands rest gingerly...

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Categories: world war ii, conflict, dark, war, women,