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Subject: AUSCHWITZ, POLAND Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALMOST A LOVE POEM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my parents and your parents Last Line: What's your name? / hannale Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Last Line: And wicks turn down to darkness in the madman's eyes Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 2, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My suit is hairy, my carpet smells of death Last Line: While the room fills with the zyklon b I cough Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 3, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On picadilly underground I fall asleep Last Line: But sratches web the ceiling of a train Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 4, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around staring buildings the pale flowers grow Last Line: Death's botanical gardens can flower again Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 5, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man eating his dressing in the hospital Last Line: They crowd out peace from executioners' sleep Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 6, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forty thousand bald men drowning in a stream Last Line: Which has not cared about or guessed its tortured scope Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits Last Line: And all poultry eaters are psychopaths Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ARBEIT MACHT FREI, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work shall set you free:' a sensible sentiment Last Line: Pain to the piano with you, this quiet cry. Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Language; Truth; Words; Vocabulary AUSCHWITZ, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: Far from the vistula, along the northern plain Last Line: Never from the pit of ashes %to show itself again Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by NAUM KORZHAVIN Poem Source First Line: Men tortured children %cleverly. Deliberately. Efficiently Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DI MAGILAS FUN AUSHVITS (THE SCROLLS OF AUSCHSWITZ), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He vanished & reappeared in a room no bigger than a Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Concentration Camps; Jews; Judaism DISHES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: On the street where I grew up, there was a man whose mother went mad from Last Line: Plates rattle on, and I peer through a slit to gaze at the obscene shape of the moon Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; China (porcelain); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pottery And Potters DREAMS OF AUSCHWITZ, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: I often dream of auschwitz now Last Line: Wears down what's left of people Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HIMMLER AT AUSCHWITZ, 1942, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: A dim image of heinrich himmler Last Line: Contemplating the colossal possibilities of his revelation Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KITTY RETURNS TO AUSCHWITZ, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: A woman returns to auschwitz Last Line: No brandenburg there, %just wind of the great nothing Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory MASSACRE OF THE BOYS, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: The children cried 'mummy!' Last Line: Dead tree %with no star in its crown Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above my desk / the rabbi of auschwitz Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above my desk %the rabbi of auschwitz Last Line: That is all that god %gave us to hold Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ ..., by ELI W. MANDEL Poem Source First Line: The name is hard %a german sound made out of Last Line: A body melting Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland PRAYER TO SAINT LOUSE, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Skirts and scarves Last Line: Filled it %filled it Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Gypsies; Prayer PRETTY SOON, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Pretty soon %when people hear a quiz show expert Last Line: Who have always gotten themselves talked about: %they really attract attention Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews QUESTIONS ABOUT POETRY SINCE AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Whether it rose up as a small brown bird Last Line: For wild bird protection %in a world soon to be whole again Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland 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 SUN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: You remember the sun of auschwitz Last Line: As your body, you look into my eyes %and call me with the whole world Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike Last Line: Now go quickly to your shelters Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War |
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