Free verse № 56954
Yellow Star
Yellow stars in a pit of faces,
Staring transfixed from their tomb,
At their possessions neatly stacked by âperfect mortalsâ
Suitcases aligned outside the shower room,
Emblazoned in names or chalk epitaphs,
That stands beside a leather mountain of heels.
The drone of a single shaver,
Removing the perfect hair,
That will be used for textiles to seam more yellow stars,
The sick irony of death bearing death,
And the whooping cough of a typhoid stricken child,
Walking with her mother mild,
To the room of no return.
In the shower room I sit half a century on,
Thinking of the nameless gone,
In this room I recall the Mothers,
Who would try to help their babies breathe
By making them suckle on desperate nipples,
Both dying in the shape that they lived in the womb,
Where screams turned to smoke that would bellow for hours,
I break down in the shower room.
I remain haunted by the corrugated corridors,
The squeak and lingering echo of recycled boots on shiny floors,
Where laughing Nazis would walk to block 11,
To purify Jews by liquid suffocation,
I see a name carved in to granite,
Next to rows of seven stripes until the abrupt end,
Continued on to a whole wall,
These are horrors I can never comprehend,
It leaves me sore,
From my one single day in Sobibor.
31 comments
2. gem and gold industry jewish controled
3. bank industry jewish
4. textiles jewish
5. land development abroad
explain to me how a people as a whole can monopolize the whole fucking planet, extinguish women and children themselves currently (the middle east), have more money than the cathoic church and still look for sympathy? Boring, that's how they pull off the shell trick! Yeah, let's dwell on the past so we can't m,ake night or day out of the present. Bullshit, fucking propaganda jewish bullshit.
If you tell me what you find incomprehendible I will be glad to explain, this poem took the longest to write than any other I have ever written.
Incidentally poemrankers votes are not necessary but your comments will be appreciated.
Close your eyes for one moment and imagine a black child screaming for his father, he has seen his family shot, the child knows nothing of war, religion, politics, history, then the child is gassed and dumped in a mass grave left for the flies, ask yourself what he died for?
Now open your eyes and just for one second imagine that the child is someones you care about.
Fuck the German people, if we tarred them with the same brush that you tar the Jews with they would have died straight after the war. I am no Jew, No christian, moslem or pagan but I am someone who knows right from wrong.
And Horus, you mentioned in your other comment that younger people would not understand my poem, well can you explain how they would understand a poem about the terrible plight the jews caused the Germans? No one cares because in contrast its a flea rather than a fly in shit.
The poem was merely written with good intention and I have been to Sobibor, I suggest everyone goes there, or a trench from WW1 I owe my life to those who gave me the right to enjoy the life I live today.
I do not owe thanks for that to any German.
Jeremi B. Handrinos (notice the dot because there are imposters
Baba
Bachus
and shardik.
Also the rich jews left the country long before. Your people are so fucking greedy, they even long knived themselves.
The actual Aryan race were a steppe people from 5,000 years ago. Hitler stole the title and concept from them and the Atlantaens from 13,000 years ago. Also no one goes after someone that vehemently without a huge deep rooted hatred.
Hitler isn't alive though, because that could never have happened, good defeats evil when the stake of natural balancce is at hand. Also you are just sensitive because you're a jew, get over it, do you think I walk around whining about my hertige rights to whine? Hardly? I am a prostitute, so what, I get over it on a daily basis. I am constintly stereotyped and criticized why? That's what people do when there's not work to do. Idle minds breed hate. Your hatred for them is no different then theirs for you therefore the whole thing is comical.
America and English through the money and guidance of the Jews, you mean, because in this country sweety, the Jews keep those bible belted christians bible belted and bush rolling in the stupid cash, soft money contributions. Also the Devil and Hitler? Had nothing in common by a long shot. lol. Really, like what? I must have forgot the devil man war of 94? please, don't make my brain, make your brain explode. the devil is a mythological representation of the uknown and instinctually uncontrolable. Where as hitler was an actual person that lived this century. Also Stalin was worse and killed more people, and Napolean killed more than both of them almost put together. They must be Satan and Lucifers cousins to the devil. And what of the witch hunts, and what of the inquisition aye, Was the pope the devil then?
Was it not the Nazis that killed 1000s of Greeks in WW2? Imagine the Thracian mountains you wrote about covered in swatstikahs.
You do realize that Hitler only believed the Aryan race was pure? he considered EVERY other race impure which makes us in Hitlers eyes dead.
And I am off to Cephalonia in October and its a beautiful place. Now H8 I love you to bits but I'm taking a raincheck on this one we'll have to agree to disagree.
Phew I'm out of juice.
schindler's lists and pianos do we need?
maybe until every director gets an oscar
but I am An American humanist theologian hybrid, and I can assure you as long as people feel the way they do about land, money, and god, it will never end, the persecutions will just become more inventive and torturous on a larger level. I know more Indians died than Jews when America stole it from them. More tsutsi, more in hindus and muslims collectively in India during their war, but is it a question of who lost more quicker? Apparently to them but not me, it's mighty pointless and ridiculous to even think in those terms it shows a lack of faith in the ability for people to look ahead and not behind. That's why were doomed to repeat the past, because we walk forward looking backwards running into the same shit over and over.
Woman and children and music and literature and nature and animals should be cherished at all costs and never sacraficed under any circumstance not even the possibilty of inner or outer planetary travel. We as a people of the same planet should be working together looking toward the skys, our oceans, our land to repair it and conserve it not refine it and strip it and control and steal it, because if thats the case, when we do start traveling in space and under seas, we'll just do the same thing out there to other planets and aliens and life forms. WE as a people need a mental, physical and spiritual overhaul soon, and bad. Or we are going to kill everything.
Can you imagine JAmes Cameron directing Schindlers list?
Uuurgh the thought scares me.
I am not a jew. (check mate)
Are you God? did you create me? how the hell do you know what fucking race I am. Its clearly obvious to me after reading your drivel that if you dont know something you simply invent it to massage your intellectual ego. I am nothing like Hitler you are the one labelling wrongly people and resorting to futile playground name calling. As for my Haiku you have actually said gave me positive remarks so saying they are poor now just shows you to be immature, and a jerk. I guess your Poem 'Nigger hole' is accessible to the audience you feel I am alienating? we all do god, bad, exceptional poems from time to time I am no paragon but I do know when someone is taking something way to far like you are. You could do with thinking about what you say before you let rip horus.
Maybe you are a jew because I say you are ! you see its childish to label people isn't it?
Finally this bloody poem was written about the plight of the holocaust not an opportunity for you to advertize your conceited opinions of the poor wronger German common men who 'rightfully' avenged the greedy and i bet you think big nosed jews by torturing them to death and persecuting them.
The Final Solution Horus, you were not born then, neither was I and their are some things we will never know but the facts remain that Hitler and the Aryan race were scumbags so if you feel so strongly why not shave your hair, iron those blue collars and head for your nearest jewish suburb and chant your pathetic defence of history.
I have seen a side of you which truly disappoints and saddens me. All you had too say was 'your poem was bad i never liked it and a basic reason why'
Who do you think you are ?
A small historical fact to add to the German/Jew argument - a lot of right-wing aggression towards the Jews was centred around a book called 'The Protocols of the Zionist Elders', which purported to have been produced by rabbis and leading Jews and which spoke of a conspiracy to take over the world. It was a forgery produced by European anti-Semites in the late 19th century. I don't think Hitler's rise to power is quite so easily explicable by the ambitions of the Jews. Anti-Semitism has a far longer and ignobler history than that, and you have to remember that Germany had been shafted in the Treay of Versailles by the very unJewish (and also fairly anti-Semitic in places) British, US and French governments.
4) I am not conceited, I'm just more aware than your normal Joe, and I wouldn't torture anything, being a survivor of torture myself. To become that would be my worst nightmare.
i am debating the fact that your poem doesn't include anyone else but the Jews and the Nazis black and white, if you would of had an italian girl singing to cheer them up before dying, or a gypsy still hustling incarcerated it would have been contrasted and brought humor and hope to an impossible situation, and show your audience that you're not just writing this because everyone will give it tens out of guilt.
6)Since you're not a Jew, you are doing just what I do, imagining, except how can you be so good at describing your blooding and such, but toss it on this one? My poem niggerhole has nothing to do with the Black race. Nor does the word nigger look it up. That poem was about Humanists going off (satanists) because I think it's funny what people will buy into to belong. Your comment above is very Hitlerish, by the way, though you are not, because it's psychotic and all over the place. i never said your haikus were not good they're just always syllablicly off, and since your one of the best list favourites. i was wondering if you were going to get good at counting eventually.
Communicating about a subject like this is healthy, not taking things too far. And I think about everything I say, especially when 30 million souls died for this horseshit. Am I a god? Yes, we are all the image of god, and capable of infinitely more than finger pointing and slavery or racism or murder.
it ruins movies, relationships and boardgames, but all that comes back to comprehension levels, memory recapitulation, and reading while grounded or incarcerated. Oh, and genetics ZEIG HEIL! lol.
1) I think I am Horus8, a magic name I chose for special reasons some might unriddle when I'm dead.
2) I did not think your poem was bad. You are a good writer it would be hard for you to write something bad. I said that to the normal poet it would be confusing because of the language, place, and terms you used both metaphorically and up front. Because, it's a muddy surface. You follow what all of our text books taught us perfectly and there's nothing new or different about your observations, and poets are experts at putting a newlight or twist on an old dance, but you didn't. i'm surprised there wasn't a lampshade, or a delousing, or a train car with eyes and hands. Your approach and mood is also very rigid and bias. Good writers use research and undiscovered angles and data to their advantage, you didn't. Sometimes the best way to define pain and suffering immeasurable. Is to contrast it like in that movie "Life is beautiful" or my favourite Lina Wertmuller's "Seven Beautys" where this Italian ladys man gets thrown in a concentration camp, and what ensues is just a perfect example of what my point to you is.
I accept why you felt incensed we are both passionate souls and when things get heated our emotions boil over. This powm was only based on the events of the holocaust nothing more, nothing less but I have learned that this is a subject NO ONE can touch on without courting a mixed response. I believe we grow up and are taught in a dubious curriculum of politically selected history (I'm not that gullible that the german race believed in hitlers causes) But I have learned (like you) to search for the darker sides of humanity and shine a light on it. This was a light that did not reach you and I do not believe in the succinct nature of a poem one could capture the whole story. That is why I chose a chapter in history and to be honest horus reflecting on our exchange I am pleased we have disagreed and oyu have enlightened anyone who will read this whoi may not have known of why the nazis persecuted the Jews.
I think due to our passionate natures we are bound to wind each other up, you wrote a poem about the pig and jew and I called you a hypocrite.
However you asked me once I you could trust me, and I KNOW I can trust you as you know things about me no one on p/r knows and that was my choice because I respect you, your a ballsy guy who lives his dreams something I used to do and do no longer.
Therfore to conclude I wish to offer no hard feelings and to thank you and the rest of the commentors for such a knackering but apt discussion.
Warm regards
Mr Pig.
(let their be love again)
Like a waltz with too much structure, you send me
spinning round the room.
Less is sometimes more.
But still I love you so
I hate to upset this unique cart.
If any mother's child dies
It does not matter how.
Wicked is wicked anyway you slice it. Let us say my boy
Yes my sweet boy Cancer maybe?
Or prejudice?
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