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Best Poems Written by Stuart Ackerman

Below are the all-time best Stuart Ackerman poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Long Distance Trucker

Insipid blend of lemon tea
Murky depths unsweetened
In a grubby cup with a dull grey glaze
Cracked rim invisible in the haze
Of an all night cafe on the road.

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Holocaust Haiku One

Skeletons walk free. 
Their minds once dead, resurrect, 
Remembering

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Central Park

The frog green lilies on the mud brown pond
Drift between the ducks and the trees.
Leaning willows look at their reflections
Passers by contemplate their defections
The murky mist rises from the freeze.

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Holocaust Haiku Seven

We count the long hours 
They will be here soon, too soon 
We suspect the end

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The Very Last Elephant

They both smiled, although only the man’s was visible
They both knew that the moment to come, had to come
The hair-dryer air killed the sweat, which helped the man see better
And the skin of the object of his desire
Dust laden and grey
Breathed dry.

When the breeze began to cool
The man looked down the barrel
And loved the last elephant ever to live
As he slowly squeezed the trigger.

The echo skidded around the valley
For at least a lifetime of heartbeats
A lake of blood, water-falled out his ear
And then he was silent, midst the fading roar.

When silence returned, the breeze stopped
And he stared for a long, long time.
He moved towards the body, and he blinked
As he touched the body with his tusks, and walked away,
His trunk sniffing the fading love, and sadness in the air.

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Holocaust Haiku Two

The older I get, 
More acute the memory. 
No names, just numbers.

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Holocaust Haiku Five

Railway to nowhere 
Orchestral chambers screaming 
Final solution

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Holocaust Haiku Eight

Work makes free, a lie 
Notches on a sickle, a tally 
Death's head obliterates 




( Yes, I know that this is not a true Haiku, if we all follow the rules...5/7/5 words per line )
I chose to tweak the "rules" to make the grammar flow better with commas, etc, 
If anyone objects, I am happy will delete this haiku. )

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Holocaust Haiku Four

Sisters and brothers 
Eradicated with hate 
Chimneys spewing death

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Thousand Yard Stare

Obsidian eyes deeper than the universe,
What lay within?

Turns out,
I never knew you.