Ocean World War Ii Poems

Was that a lone tear making its way down her aging cheek
    Had she let herself cry for those long decades
 ...

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Have someone caught your eyes
In mine?
Had anyone glimpsed
Our love?
There's one secret that I kept, 
But I'm dying to divulge.
Yesterday
I saw you
With her hands in yours
She...

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SS CITY OF BENARES

Prior knowledge this ship will carry weapons to aid Britain on its return journey
Capitan Lieutenant Heinrich Bleichrodt, should have waited, but; trigger...

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End of May has come again 
Thinking about pushing the button to send 
Containing a message stating destruction 
But we know how to rebuild with...

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Yamaguchi Seishi haiku 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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Don Winslow of the Navy at the movies...…., the Lone Ranger, and the shadow, on the radio. Three of my favorite pastimes in Wilmington NC,...

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At The Gates of Auschwitz

Today, I stand
At the gates of hell;
“Arbeit macht frei,”
(work sets you free!)
That is Auschwitz.
Where they burned God’s children,
And the world stood...

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I dig my toes deep in the sand,
          Let the warmth imbue my bones,
  ...

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In the year 1945, a few powerful American leaders decided it was alright for them to play God. Taking the initiative to create a weapon...

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They are everywhere,
yet you cannot notice them.

They have blended so well
with unsuspecting public,
like a drop of ocean
in a river.

Nothing escapes their senses-
they are so keen...

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Four Minutes
This is the time it will take to kill a person in the ice cold Baltic Sea, allegedly. Not even several thousand people thrown...

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