Food World War Ii Poems
These Food World War Ii poems are examples of World War Ii poems about Food. These are the best examples of World War Ii Food poems written by international poets.
Blaze of BulletsSitting outside in the cold wet mud,
Hearing footprints thud and thud,
Hearing the cry if men who die,
Watching the spider eat the fly,
Bang bang gotthe guns,
Listening...
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world war ii, men, war, world war
As Survivors Dwindle To a Precious FewBlackened potato
rock-hard tomato
Piece...
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world war ii, food, health, horror, world
To Holocaust Survivors In the Former Soviet UnionYou worked so hard but just exist.
Your high school grad dates you just missed,
evacuated from Ukraine.
In Russia’s army to resist,
you fought the tyrant Hitler’s reign.
You...
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world war ii, discrimination, grandfather, grandmother, hate,
Last Train To AuschwitzThey mocked him, the old religious fanatic
Asking God a question with every step
Pleading for mercy for each of the town's Jews
Blessing...
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world war ii, death, god, jewish, life,
The Last Train To AuschwitzIn nineteen forty four on the third of September
Is a date in my mind that I'll always remember
It was the date of the last train...
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world war ii, abuse, death, evil, jewish,
Pervitin Given During World War IiI don’t know what they are putting into my food,
But I am invincible. I am indestructible. I am incredible.
The essence of super powers flows into...
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world war ii, holocaust,
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld 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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world war ii, evil, holocaust, race, racism,
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who...
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world war ii, evil, holocaust, race, racism,
MusicMusic
The food of love..
To nourish my soul
Keeping me warm,
Dear friend, in the cold.
We dance and sing
Yet you never judge
Or my crazy, wide-eyed
Fantasy begrudge.
Although...
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world war ii, dance, happiness, music, spoken
Operation BarbarossaOperation 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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world war ii, allegory, allusion, america, world
Chaim Nachman Bialik: On the Slaughter of the JewsHolocaust Poem: "On The Slaughter of the Jews"
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Merciful heavens, have pity on me!
If there is a God...
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Categories:
world war ii, bible, holocaust, horror, murder,
The Other VeteransThey take a position that very few see.
But every military man and woman must agree.
They occupy the most important role.
The guardian of the whole household.
When...
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world war ii, family, independence day, introspection,
The Back DoorIn 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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world war ii, childhood, history, house, mother,
Six Views of a Sickening WorldReplace the desolate words I speak without intention
With my intended poetry – a burst of fresh light
In a forlorn bedroom filled with buckets of darkness!
As...
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world war ii, dark, light, world war
Clark SimmonsSince I was the oldest of three sisters with a mum,
As my dad had died when I was at an age young,
I thought I’d...
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world war ii, appreciation, conflict, death, hero,