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#ww2 poems

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for a french grandfather and an american grandfatherThey lay on Normandy. / Two hundred miles away, the empty shells of humans / Who lie below the stree

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Hans LittenI have studied Nazi Germany / Someone stood and preached to me / All the ‘important’ names / All the

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PEGASUS AND THE SWORDDead of night just as rehearsed / so many times o'er England's green fields / D Company, show no fea

@manda-clement2m

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Uranium-235“Here’s your morning PSA, / Laced with saccharine and anaesthetic, / Unfortunately the missiles are

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GriefThe lights on the Welsh coastline shine / Her whiskey days are full of ink / & broken milk bottles,

@dreams-of-sepia1m

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Oradour-Sur-GlaneA chilling solemn breeze sweeps thru the town, / Down empty streets where children used to play; / T

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* **Lay Me Doon** **Lay me doon in the caul caul groon / Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun / Lay me doon in the caul caul

@MadameBlizardee3m

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LETTER FROM GERTRUDE STEIN, PARIS 1940My dearest Sammy, / The Mix Master came / Easter, Sunday / And we have not had time / To more than r

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World War 2 Coffee from an all night diner in New YorkBarnaby hands me my daily / cup of coffee, but this time, it's night / time, and the coffee reminds

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pilots giftwe went out to the desert / my young daughter and I / looking for the pilots / crash site shot down

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HiroshimaWith light shall glow, / The dark shall blow, / This time has come to pass. / When love and war, / I

@johnathan-locke1m

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----old bayonet-- / I wonder if one touched / my grandfather's body

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Come homeAnd as they marched home, / Hollow from the victory of war / Only those who returned were welcomed,

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Our Special RelationshipI searched for you across wild oceans, / Never daring to dream that I would find / Such a dirty, dan

@annanotherthing2m

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Recollection of War - SurvivorLet me introduce myself / I'm Robert K. Wesson, / Sgt. Retired / I like to say the K was for killer,

@roger-turner5m

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The last letterMother, I write this to you after the end of the war. / Japan surrendered and now I wear a cast. / T

@andwhentheshipsails4m

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PapaOh Papa, perish the invading Persian armies. / Oh Papa, do or die at the D-day. / Oh Papa, fight the

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Axis SallyRed letter days / and friendly fire. / Will I ever go home? / Your voice over / the airwaves soothes

@Carlo-C-Gomez1m

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Ernst Tochlisten here and listen close / I’ll tell you the story of a musical ghost / Ernst the composer, with

@william-mclaughlin3m

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The Enigma Machine#•###• / •the•message•is•so•phantom• / •strangled• / •during•the•third•act• / •illuminated• / •lette

@Carlo-C-Gomez1m

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what I learned from my history text bookthe words on a page from which you read / relay that sense of melancholy / that facts are facts and

@nicholasthepoet2m

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Ragnarǫk Down Church Street"Brothers will fight one another / and kill one another. / Cousins will break peace / with one anoth

@alexander-constantine2m

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Gone ForeverHe’s gone away forever, / Mother says he’ll be back soon, / But it’s going to be just like dad. / He

@lachlanrocca1m

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