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Holocaust Poems | Examples of Holocaust Poetry

Holocaust Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about the holocaust. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for holocaust.
I'm Only Four
I didn’t care when they loaded all of us into those trucks Why would I care, I was only four, after all I didn’t care when they stuffed us into another truck more packed than the last I...Read the rest...
Categories: deep, history, holocaust, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Thing
The things of which we cannot speak Make us become we cannot say The thing brought back from yesterday That praised the strong and crushed the weak That thing whose name we cannot name That fathers fought to keep at...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, america, anger, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



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They're knocking at me door In the middle of the night They're knocking at me door Giving me an awful fright. They taking me To a camp where Ashes fall like black snow. I'll not be overjoyed By goose-stepping boys With boots to...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, america, betrayal, holocaust,
Form: Political Verse

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Premium Member In Humanity
Imagine if you will attending a holocaust memorial at the very same moment you support today's slaughters this is inhumanity hypocritical all poets and politicians to say I am disgusted an understatement to say I am filled with tears a truth inhumane insane your hatred ingrained the inhumanity, raining...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, child abuse, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holocaust remembrance day
27 January is known as holocaust Liberation day The liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp Systematic extermination of jews what can i say The NAZI regime laying down its stamp These awful acts carried out around Europe People...Read the rest...
Categories: death, discrimination, evil, holocaust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Auschwitz liberated
A google article gives 'allied troops' credit for liberation Of the death camp.' It was Russian forces that did it really.' Working in step with free countries.' When did they become enemies of the west.? Certainly under...Read the rest...
Categories: anniversary, appreciation, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Eighty Years Ago
Eighty years ago, the horrors Mesmerized the world As Nazi flags came down To never after be unfurled. The captives held at Auschwitz, Walking skeletons, at best, Didn’t have to speak; their bodies To their torture did attest. It seemed incomprehensible, But...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bethlehem is Closed
The birth place of Jesus not a sound could be heard the celebrations cancelled surrounded by soldiers the village living in fear Christmas carols only sung in silenced hearts the oppressed shiver with candles in the dark snipers lurking in their nests what dear child...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, evil, hate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holocaust Exhaust
slab of smokey concrete sky swirls like swarms of ashen hands reaching away from skeletal grief someone's suppressed tears dissolved ~another's anguish ignited...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, absence, abuse, anger, death,
Form: Free verse
1st revised of NOTHINGYAHOO
1ST Revised version NOTHINGYAHOO the psychopathic murdered of 51589. majority been Innocent and God fearing whose souls will testify keeping him in the hell fire FOREVER. Only did his mother know what evil, she would have summon God...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, 12th grade, evil, grave,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nazi Footsteps in Our Streets
“Oh, not in my town,” you doth so loudly protest. But I tell you, they are even in your governments! The first sign is~ suppression of your free speech. We let them, outlaw words, while leaders sun at...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, corruption, dance, death, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
NIGHTERRORS II silence speaks volumes
Shattered, A city skyline weeps within Tendrils of the deep A broken world, time's cruel grin. The compass needle spins insane Lost in a dreamscape's refrain Echoes of what was Whispers in the silent mist. The sky bleeds into the labyrinth A canvas...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, adventure, anger, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hitler Two Point Oh
ground breaking silence red dust rises ashes fall~ carrion for crows...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, humanity, war,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Berlin
this non conformist city breathes a calm but edgy air through gaps in the graffiti and the street art everywhere its face is sometimes brutal but its heart and soul seem not and it walks a sexy diverse walk that’s cold...Read the rest...
Categories: city, history, holocaust, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Free Palestine
In '48, a state was born, But for Palestine, a time to mourn. Nakba came, with lands displaced, A people scattered, dreams erased. In '67, the war did rage, West Bank, Gaza, a new stage. Occupied...Read the rest...
Categories: holocaust, war,
Form: Rhyme

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