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The Jewish Quarter |
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martiniat8 Senior Member
since 2003-06-21
Posts 897Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic |
"Let sleeping dogs lie" Racist parishioners say and yet we/I resurrect the old those lost, those held in the hands and heart the bosom of Abraham not far from where I lay The Old Jewish Quarter Now in silence, stays. Creep therein old crypts and cracks ravaged savage and worn by time's end and attack countless tombstones broken and lean like this city, busted, unclean no space to move no weeds to weave into a masterpiece The clock strikes silent with Yiddish numbers upon the old Synagogue More tourist than sacred the remnant take house amongst the posh places Parizska, Gucci, Gabbana Prada and prose pause to pose what one supposes Cartier and those in old pastels, a vacant ghastly ghostly story tells of those lives lost... and gone a country purged by Nazi surge some 60 years ago. leaving hundreds... of thousands, dead and what of their apron and spread? What now as Sabbath hour growls? To a forgotten history of stones and stars six pointed behind captive bars Silent silence they sleep, weep and wake hidden and hiding still for God and their Lord's sake. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Wearing their yellow star into eternity. And it could very well happen again, nobody is looking, nobody is listening, nobody cares, but it could happen again, shame, shame on apathy . . . ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Fine writing...James |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
. Death Fugue [Edit Copyrighted content removed - Ron] Paul Celan . ....................... Pigtail [Edit Copyrighted content removed - Ron] Tadeusz Rozewicz . . [This message has been edited by Ron (06-08-2012 02:22 PM).] |
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martiniat8 Senior Member
since 2003-06-21
Posts 897Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic |
Wow, those are two amazing poems, especially the first one. Thanks for sharing them, truly powerful! I didn't mean to have such a morbid tone to my poem, alas, there it is. I was just writing about my observations in the Jewish Quarter and the VERY old cemetary there. I was describing what I have seen and how it is less a place for a thriving community, and now it is a place filled with tourists and ultra-expensive shops. Long gone are the people, culture and community, unless they own those shops. About 350,000 Czech Jews were killed in the Holocaust. It pretty much completely wiped out the Czech Jewish community. The concentration camp is in Tabor, I believe. |
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Startime1955 Senior Member
since 2012-04-22
Posts 1072Alberta, Canada |
It is good to be reminded...I wept for what was lost to the world and I weep again for what is again being lost...Thank You... |
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