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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH - AFTERMATH Matches Found: 172 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1945, by BERNARD S. MIKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: And that year %when the fires ceased Last Line: To stir them for an instant %from their dream of well-being Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews 33 UNION SQUARE WEST, by DAVID GERSHATOR Poem Source First Line: Thirty-three union square west %mother's workplace Last Line: Looking up %expecting no blessing Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ADAM, by EVGENI VINOKUROV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the first day, gazing idly about him Last Line: Not knowing good and evil yet Alternate Author Name(s): Vinokurov, Yevgeny Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AFTER VISITING DACHAU, by RITA KIEFER Poem Source First Line: The head in the mirror is not mine %it is much livelier Last Line: Another figure that is %beginning Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AGAIN, by TAMAR RADZYNER Poem Source First Line: I bore children again %as if I didn't know Last Line: I still nurture hope %under the rubble of the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ALL THE GENERATIONS BEFORE ME, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the generations that preceded me contributed me Last Line: But gassed me straightaway. / it binds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ALL THE GENERATIONS BEFORE ME, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the generations that preceded me contributed me Last Line: They'd burn me right away. %that commits one Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ANNE FRANK, by JOHN FOSTER WEST Poem Source First Line: Like a small, brilliant spark Last Line: Which holds the writhing corpse of modern man Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ANONYMOUS RECOLLECTION, by ROBERT ANBIAN Poem Source First Line: The precise incision of the shadows Last Line: On the blanched earth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ARBEIT MACHT FREI, by REVA SHARON Poem Source First Line: You work hard %and never complain Last Line: But never enough %to be free Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ART AND POLITICS, by BARRY IVKER Poem Source First Line: They played beethoven in theresienstadt Last Line: Trusting the next concert will be just fine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ASH WEDNESDAY, by KARL PLANT Poem Source First Line: At birkenau %the glass-eyed cyclops Last Line: That sears now %our darkened cross Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AUSCHWITZ, AUGUST 1988: 1, by LINDA ASHEAR Poem Source First Line: My travel agent said Last Line: Why do you want to go there? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AUSCHWITZ, AUGUST 1988: 2, by LINDA ASHEAR Poem Source First Line: Silence cracks the world wide open Last Line: A crow shrieks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AUSCHWITZ, AUGUST 1988: 3, by LINDA ASHEAR Poem Source First Line: No one screams in the cement room Last Line: Is something that happened to somebody else Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AUSCHWITZ, AUGUST 1988: 4, by LINDA ASHEAR Poem Source First Line: I follow tracks to the horizon Last Line: Three white moths circle my head Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AUSCHWITZ, AUGUST 1988: 5, by LINDA ASHEAR Poem Source First Line: In the women's ection, israeli tourists Last Line: This was my bed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath AUSCHWITZ, AUGUST 1988: 6, by LINDA ASHEAR Poem Source First Line: At the ruined crematorium our guide Last Line: After auschwitz, words, like lungs, collapse Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath BADGE, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: A hard yellow badge is carved Last Line: By six points of fire Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath BALLAD FOR TOURISTS, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: Kindele, kindele, where have you been? Last Line: I thought I saw ovens, andyou lying there Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath BECAUSE NO ONE SAID NO!, by ROSELINE INTRATER Poem Source First Line: Because no one said no! %dark stinking clouds of flesh-filled smoke Last Line: Has anyone learned %to say 'no'? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath BEING SEEMINGLY UNSCATHED, by ISRAEL HALPERN Poem Source First Line: We were singing %blessed is the holy name barooche ha-shem Last Line: Wondering about ourselves celebrating ha-shem Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath BERLIN: SAVOY HOTEL, by HERMAN TAUBE Poem Source First Line: The bathroom at the savoy hotel Last Line: I can't use the hotel toilet. Too deep the scars Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath BETWEEN THE LINES, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Later, back in my cell, back in the thick stench Last Line: To the killer who cracks my joints: 'je te comprends, mon ami...' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews BONE SONGS, by BARRY IVKER Poem Source First Line: They were naught but %skin and Last Line: To the faint notes of my own %bone songs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CAKE, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: On the fifth of december %before dawn Last Line: I have baked you %a cake Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CAMBODIAN HOLOCAUST, by BERNARD S. MIKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: As in 1945, %another year brings Last Line: Bearing a million souls %so light, so heavy Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CELIA DANCES, by STANLEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: Of all the children, %you are the harshest Last Line: Dancing the dance of perfect joy Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CHILDREN, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I thought my poems were finished Last Line: Be healed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL, JERUSALEM, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Tiny starlike souls %flicker in the darkness Last Line: The inevitable %exit door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CHOSEN, by JEAN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: I try to tell them how it feels Last Line: A reason to have been spared Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CINEMA 3, by CHRISTOPHER FAHY Poem Source First Line: If -- as some of you still contend Last Line: We felt we could top it. %I think you'll agree we did Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath COLLECTIBLE, by ANNA BART Poem Source First Line: At the wrecking company's outdoor sale Last Line: In being ripped from someone's sleeve Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath CRIMINAL SONNET: 38, by PHYLLIS KOESTENBAUM Poem Source First Line: He actually said he only did this Last Line: This; I'm as far from the light as I was Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DACHAU, by JOAN MCGINNIS Poem Source First Line: Dachau, %another day in munich and dachau so close Last Line: Denial and its consequences are forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DACHAU 1968, by JOAN I. SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: First I heard sparrows %in the linden trees Last Line: Finally I heard the dead %say kaddish Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DAILY STONES, by SHEL KRAKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Every day %the smooth, unmortared Last Line: The philistine with his %harp and song Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DANGER: NO EXPLOSIVES, by SHEL KRAKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Lay the prize %on the tracks Last Line: The tracks to %auschwitz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DAUGHTER OF SURVIVORS, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: She is screaming again. %you stand at your bedroom door Last Line: And find them missing, you would %know how and where to run Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DAUGHTER, A GIFT OF RED SHOES, by KENDALL LECOMPTE Poem Source First Line: We had the germans broken Last Line: It might be time to wear them; maybe not Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DEATH MAZURKA, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: It was late -- late in the silence Last Line: And now! They shrieked. And now! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews DIE MUSIK' (SCHUBERT), by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: Our season tickets stamped on our wrists Last Line: And the string quartet rests between numbers, %waxing their bows Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DISPLACED, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: I was born %in a displaced person's camp Last Line: Maybe the mona lisa %wasn't always at ease Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO TOWNS, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway between the black sea Last Line: Touched yours. The names are side %by side, only us between them now Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath DRAFT OF A REPARATIONS AGREEMENT, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All right, gentlemen who cry blue murder as always Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Judaism DRAFT OF A REPARATIONS AGREEMENT, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All right, gentlemen who cry blue murder as always Last Line: And will emigrate %to the sky Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews EL TANGO FABULOSO, by ASHER TORREN Poem Source First Line: You always passed out %when I held you so close Last Line: Shackled tot he pit %you left behind Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath EZEKIEL IN THE VALLEY, by CORNEL ADAM LENGYEL Poem Source First Line: Shall these dry bones that crumble in the darkness Last Line: O twice-burned bones twice-born -- the word is spoken! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath FAMILY TREE, by ALVIN M. LASTER Poem Source First Line: It is all here, %a chronicle in black Last Line: I can smell your smoke Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath FASANENSTRASSE, BERLIN, 1998, by BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Their green needles still pungent Last Line: Between the need to heal, %the need to forget Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath FEEDING STRAY CATS, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: To hi wife, sammy; %to son and daughter, daddy Last Line: The neighbors say he's gentle, %a grandpa feeding stray cats Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath FIFTIES, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born after the holocaust Last Line: Hands worked in a military factory during the %war Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath FORGING LINKS, by JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY Poem Source First Line: In the early morning silence, reading the drowned Last Line: Torsos. When I hammer I release imprisoned shapes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath FREE FROM SHAME, by NEIL C. SCOTT Poem Source First Line: These feelings of guilt %that so long have oppressed me Last Line: As are we all %to never let it happen again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath FRIENDS, by LOTTE KRAMER Poem Source First Line: To call you faithful would not be enough Last Line: As a distorting mask. With love you judged Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath GARDENS, by DAVID CURZON Poem Source First Line: Melbourne's botanic gardens! Where I came Last Line: The gardens of babylon, and not weep Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath GO GET THEM USA, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: A mere fifty plus years %after the holocaust Last Line: Go get them usa Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath GOD TEACHES US HOW TO FORGIVE, BUT WE FORGET, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: The night & fog decree Last Line: What was once human %is hurt forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews GRANDMOTHER LOST, by ESTHER CRYSTAL Poem Source First Line: They turned her into ashes Last Line: There is no reflection %in the looking-glass Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath GYPSY SOUP, by MORRIE WARSHAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Tonight I eat %gypsy soup Last Line: Slicing through a stiff %wind straight ahead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath HATE SHALL NOT IMPALE ME, by MARGUERITE M. STRIAR Poem Source First Line: I collect poems on the holocaust Last Line: Or is there another way? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath HELLO, by MITCHELL WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: A man called %(I think it was a man) Last Line: Let the wind whip a chill %down heaven's spine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath HERRINGBONE OVERCOAT, by JACOB GUSEWELLE Poem Source First Line: I always wanted a herringbone overcoat. I had one once, I never Last Line: Look, and anyway, they said, it isn't worth anything Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath HIDDEN, by ANNE KIND Poem Source First Line: They have forgiven us %it is official Last Line: Sight is restored and then %the bandage is rewound Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath HISTORY OF NIGHT, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: Yehuda leib was shot by cossacks %in broad daylight Last Line: I will never lose this terror %and I will never lost this love Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath HOLOCAUST, by MARGARET SAINE Poem Source First Line: One death Last Line: Six hours and some minutes Subject(s): France; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath HOUSEHOLD RULES. FARWELL AVENUE, CHICAGO, 1946, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: She turns onions into zeros on the cutting board Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews HOW CAN THEY SAY IT NEVER HAPPENED?, by JOAN FONDELL Poem Source First Line: My father wouldn't lie to me Last Line: How can they say it never happened? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath I CAN NEVER BE AN EAGLE, by KENNETH A. WEEME Poem Source First Line: I can never be an eagle - %my talons will never rip Last Line: The massacred bodies %would sting my eyes with tears Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath I HAVE NEVER KNOWN, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Mother I have never known Last Line: And am left %lacking Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ILSE'S POEM, by RITA KIEFER Poem Source First Line: One red berry all day %at the bottom Last Line: Each year on that day %I pick berries Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath IMMIGRATION MAN, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: I look at my feet %and feel myself spin Last Line: You've missed one in this house %take her she's jewish Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath IN A BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP, by SHEL KRAKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Bent and missing %spokes Last Line: Of being reassembled %and repaired Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath IN A COLD SEASON: 1, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Words cannot reach him in his prison of words Last Line: Who see their children packed in trucks to die Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath IN MEMORY OF SMOKE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found her again this morning, %my mother, sleeping Last Line: In memory of smoke, %in fear of the coming snow Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath IN THE KIBBUTZ LAUNDRY, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: The number on her arm %appears as I rest Last Line: Tell me the answer %I will remember Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath INSCRIBED, by LISA BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: As in the bible, %where one massacre precedes another Last Line: He tilted the warm bottle %into her mouth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath INSECTS WON THE BATTLE, by HERMAN TAUBE Poem Source First Line: Our tormentors called us vermin Last Line: Our tormentors perished, we are here! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath INSPECTION, by DEBORAH DENICOLA Poem Source First Line: Believe, if you will, that he isn't guilty Last Line: And torture gets old like everything else Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath IT IS RAINING ON THE HOUSE OF ANNE FRANK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is raining on the house Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath IT IS RAINING ON THE HOUSE OF ANNE FRANK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is raining on the house Last Line: Within the dark circle %of his demons Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath JUDISCHE FRIEDHOF: KAISERSLAUTERN, by EMILY CAROLYN JOYCE Poem Source First Line: Who, in the still sweet mist %of sonntag morgen Last Line: Go to them now %as we did them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath KRISTALLNACHT, 1991, by CRYSTAL V. BACON Poem Source First Line: Night of glass, germany is broken Last Line: Bares its teeth like the silent face of death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LETTER TO HANS PUVOGEL, by PAUL CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: How has time treated you, hans? Last Line: To melt into your pure blond air? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath LETTUCE FOR ANNE FRANK, by JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE Poem Source First Line: Whenever I see lettuce %shining in a wet garden Last Line: Rooted in the moist earth, %growing green in the sun Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath LITHUANIA: 1, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: At three-thirty in the morning in america Last Line: Beautiful it is in lithuania Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath LITHUANIA: 3, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: But it is the way their story will end? Last Line: Fear carries human action to this place? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath LITHUANIA: 6, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: Be wary of old forts -- they have a history Last Line: Happened there, the voice drilling into my head Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath LOVE OF AUSTRIA, by HERBERT KUHNER Poem Source First Line: No one %loved austria Last Line: It had to be %gassed out Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath MALEDICTION, by KARL PLANT Poem Source First Line: You drew a cursed sign and penned words Last Line: Yanovka forest %zamosc Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath MAN WITH THE MONOCLE, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: On a shimmering day in july %I went to see Last Line: I stopped running %as the day began to darken Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath MY GRANDMOTHER'S UTERUS, by KAREN JANOWSKY Poem Source First Line: Sits softly on her mirrored perfume tray Last Line: It must never have belonged to me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath MY JEWISH HUSBAND, by SANDRA COLLIER VERNY Poem Source First Line: My jewish husband listens to another Last Line: I wonder, would it be different if I were jewish? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath MY MOTHER'S PRAYER BOOK, by SHEL KRAKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Is her childhood siddur %smuggled out of poland Last Line: That always allowed this son %to fly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath NEITHER NOR, by GEORG KREISLER Poem Source First Line: Do you consider it easy? %do you consider it difficult? Last Line: And that everybody else knows %that you are different Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath NIGHT OUT, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Friends recommended the new polish film Last Line: In the dark, in the marital bed, mad love Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath NO MORE MOZART, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: High to the right a hill of trees Last Line: In six million heads %stare in the same direction Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the chimneys / on the ingeniously devised habitations of death Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Judaism O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O the chimneys %on the ingeniously devised habitations of death Last Line: And israel's body as smoke through the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews OLD STORY, by B. Z. NIDITCH Poem Source First Line: The day I lost %out to the shameful sky Last Line: I was only a child %five thousand years old Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ON THE PROPENSITY OF THE HUMAN SPECIES TO REPEAT ERROR, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: The world is round. %this should tell us Last Line: Read the harsh lesson %of history Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ONE MORE HOLOCAUST POEM, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: The poem uses 'blood' and 'stars' and 'martyrs teeth Last Line: It is right there. When I look up the jews are gone Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath OUR HOLOCAUST DEAD, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: Just last month, someone denied Last Line: Let us not kill them again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath OUTCAST, by BINA GOLDFIELD Poem Source First Line: Memory puts me %in discord with nature Last Line: Will my memories pass on %to the worms? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath OVERLOOKING JENA, by PAUL CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Here we were %surrounded by a forest Last Line: Not a one, %in buchenwald Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath PERFECTLY CIRCULAR RAINBOW, by BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Hovers above the neatly rilled clouds Last Line: One of them smiles, guten morgen. %I must not let myself forget Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath PERHAPS YOU WISH TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Sometime in the late twentieth century Last Line: But there is no shining from it Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath PINBALL WIZARDS, by MIKE FRENKEL Poem Source First Line: In the pinball wizadry Last Line: He is drooling as he %again awaits his turn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath PINOCHLE DAY, by FRIEDA ARKIN Poem Source First Line: Max the music-hater rubs Last Line: Smelling of mothballs and schnapps Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath PORTRAITS OF THE SHADOWS IN THE FLAMES, by LESLIE WHAT Poem Source First Line: The pictures in the books are black and white Last Line: I could not look upon her %face without weeping Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath PSALM 1, by DAVID CURZON Poem Source First Line: Blessed is the man not born Last Line: Way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath RAGE BEFORE PARDON: AN INTERVIEW WITH ELIE WIESEL, by MARGUERITE M. STRIAR Poem Source First Line: The berlin wall has fallen and Last Line: Teach them to rage against it %and never, ever to forget? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath REBECCA, by TOBY LORBER Poem Source First Line: Mother and father hush us Last Line: Instead of staring at your arm. %or would I? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath RECOGNITION, ON MY CHILD'S FACE, by BETTY RENSHAW Poem Source First Line: You came in from playing one summer afternoon Last Line: Understanding, recognition, on %my child's face Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath REMEMBERING, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your mother hoards flour and sugar Last Line: Names of the dead bloomed %like flowers in your hands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know the story. The children Last Line: Darkening all our skies Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Children; Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Childhood; Dead, The; Shoah; Judaism REMEMBRANCE, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The eminent writer, who recently Last Line: Grainy quality of the old footage Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath RESPONSE, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not dusk / in jerusalem Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Judaism RESPONSE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not dusk %in jerusalem Last Line: Have long since burned down %to stubs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews ROLE REVERSAL, by ANNE KIND Poem Source First Line: Gisela, you were a leader in the hitler youth Last Line: You wanted a response from me. %I cannot even hate you, dear Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath RONALD REAGAN IN GERMANY: 1: RESPONSE FROM BERGEN-BELSEN, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: All of us buried %in this mass grave Last Line: Forgiveness %has its limits Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath RONALD REAGAN IN GERMANY: 2: RESPONSE FROM BITBURG, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Hearing the band play %'I had a comrade,' Last Line: I was only %following orders Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath ROOTS, by HELENE HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: My gentile friend, %flew off to europe Last Line: Come back %empty Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SEALED, by BINA GOLDFIELD Poem Source First Line: The unopened package moved around Last Line: One day, I will have to unseal it. %today, I found another place Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SERIATIM, by ROBERT A. FRAUENGLAS Poem Source First Line: Nazis %and friends Last Line: Still strive %to survive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews SHADE FROM AUSCHWITZ, by CORNEL ADAM LENGYEL Poem Source First Line: How shall I praise you, lord, at this late hour? Last Line: Spare me your lamentations! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SHOP, by ELLIOT RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: During the day she worked in a nazi sweatshop Last Line: On the floor of the triangle shirtwaist factory Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Sweatshops SOMNNETS: 25, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: It was, of all the ways we ever touched Last Line: He didn't warm. I kissed him. His eyes stayed closed' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SOMNNETS: 29, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Women, he once said, should run things here Last Line: What they could not have done without us. It's true' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SOMNNETS: 30, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: After each transport was gassed, we'd remove Last Line: I'd chosen life. Or had it chosen me?' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SOMNNETS: 33, by RICHARD NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: The debate went on for hours. Did jewish art Last Line: To me, and I wrote it down, including here name' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SONGS OF SONGS, by IAKOVOS KAMBANELIS Poem Source First Line: How lovely is my love %in her everyday dress Last Line: With a number on her white arm %and a yellow star over her heart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SPRINGTIME NEAR MUNICH: 1, by MERRILL LEFFLER Poem Source First Line: It was a beautiful april morning. %the walk is banked Last Line: You were not there. Ich bin du. %you are Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SPRINGTIME NEAR MUNICH: 2, by MERRILL LEFFLER Poem Source First Line: Then is not now %and now, sitting here Last Line: In ignorance, having grown up in the abstraction of america Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath STATELESS PERSON, by ANNIE DAWID Poem Source First Line: Why should I have lived? %and all the others died?' Last Line: Deafen him now, drowns him now %in the silence of the flood Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SUITCASE, by EVELYN WEXLER Poem Source First Line: When he was nine %and on the run Last Line: Inside a waiting closet. %just in case Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SURVIVOR, by ALFRED ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The skull in my hands is my life's. It stares at me Last Line: The earth and cries, 'dear mother, let me in' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath SURVIVOR, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: They say I should feed you, %child with the gift of tongues Last Line: Through this forest %swinging his ax Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews SURVIVOR, by ELIZABETH REES Poem Source First Line: My lungs are glass bowls %stained from that smoke Last Line: Falling glass gathers speed, %but screams cannot shatter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TAKING THE HOLOCAUST TO BED, by ANNIE DAWID Poem Source First Line: First amendment freedom %allows proud fascists Last Line: Not far from your bedroom door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TATTOO, by JUDITH BERKE Poem Source First Line: The artist said we shouldn't detract Last Line: More ashes, and he got on with it Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TESTIMONY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No no: they definitely were Last Line: Without image or likeness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE UNSEEN, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In krakow it rained, the stone arcades and cobbles Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath THE WINDOW, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughter calls me, in tears - like water Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath THERE ARE TIMES YOU MUST WONDER, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: There are times you must wonder what Last Line: You never would have lived. That was a sin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath THESE ULTIMATE SURVIVORS, by MARGUERITE M. STRIAR Poem Source First Line: Say you're in the mood for a four-star horror show Last Line: New trees will grow. %the jews survive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath THIS WEEK, by ROBERTA GOULD Poem Source First Line: I never give up on the dead %and if I forget them for a day Last Line: Enter history as an angel %be his dreams Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TOURIST AT DACHAU, by EVELYN WEXLER Poem Source First Line: I arrive too late for the english version Last Line: Red and green and black and violet and pink %on a field of yellow Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TRAIN TO MUNICH, by DEBBIE DINA FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Once thousands of us were on this track, shivering like fish stacked Last Line: Border Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TRAPPED IN MEA SHEARIM, by SHEL KRAKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: They follow the multitude of generals Last Line: Escape some places I have never been Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TRAVELING TO DER BAD, by ARLENE MAASS Poem Source First Line: Today from canada a copy of the family tree Last Line: She never saw it and kept smiling %and kept waving Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TRAVELING TO THE CAPITALS, by WALTER BAUER Poem Source First Line: It's been quite long %that I have been with the dead Last Line: To explore thoroughly %the real capitals of germany Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TRYING TO HIDE TREBLINKA, by JON SILKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed is the lupine sown to thwart Last Line: That earth their hands troweled Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath TWO POEMS, by WALTER BAUER Poem Source First Line: Guilt becomes extinct %with the guilty and the guiltless Last Line: Are never given voice again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath UNSEEN, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In krakow it rained, the stone arcades and cobbles Last Line: Because it also is yours, of your night Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath VICTIMS OF THE VICTIMS, by PETER DANIEL Poem Source First Line: At the 50th anniversary of the anschluss Last Line: How willingly %that 'sacrifice' was made Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath VIGIL IN THE DARKNESS: 1, by DEAN SMITH Poem Source First Line: The instruments of torture %preside above the village Last Line: The teeth reached the sternum Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath VIGIL IN THE DARKNESS: 2, by DEAN SMITH Poem Source First Line: And even these lowly devices Last Line: And threatening to open fresh wounds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath VIGIL IN THE DARKNESS: 3, by DEAN SMITH Poem Source First Line: Drunk with sadness in the kleige mohr Last Line: And give up the vigil in the darkness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath WAITING TO GO HOME, by BILL SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: For years, I thought the faded picture Last Line: And see my father's face behind the camera: %tired, waiting to go home Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath WALLS, by WILLY VERKAUF-VERLON Poem Source First Line: If the walls between us %were made of glass Last Line: Since they run through %our hearts and spirits Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath WHAT IS REQUIRED, by JACOB GUSEWELLE Poem Source First Line: You must write down about your family, he said. You don't. That's Last Line: Jew. Here, he said, have a piece of fruit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath WHERE JACKALS RUN AND VULTURES FLY, by THOMAS R. VERNY Poem Source First Line: After a day of skiing %the snowy mountains Last Line: Devour their prey, %the dove and the deer? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath WHERE WERE YOU, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Where in warsaw %were you Last Line: Were you %when the ghetto was burning Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath WINDOW, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughter calls me, in tears - like water Last Line: The breathing of her own body as she sees Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this carload Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; War; Judaism WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this carload Last Line: Cain son of man %tell him that I Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; War YELLOW STARS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing the prinsengracht canal Last Line: Light of creation %waiting to be born Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath YOM HASHOAH, NEVER AGAIN, by SHEL KRAKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Never again? %still unsure Last Line: Another kaddish. %never again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath |
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