Chanting Chanting Disease Racial Hate Nazi Death Anthem Poem by Terence George Craddock
Chanting Chanting Disease Racial Hate Nazi Death Anthem
bright hungry flames leap high into dark fever night
vomiting orange red sparks liberated seed demon teeth
chanting chanting disease racial hate Nazi death anthem
books are aspirations hope yearning longing dreams
bound human spirit aspires to achieve word saga eternity
clay tablets cuneiform papyri hieroglyphics codex Latin
flame in human spirit humanity desires to record ideas
to burn books is ember repression of ideas liberty freedom
why is a book a collection of words so dangerous it requires
physical annihilation obliteration destruction in pagan ritual
in 1933 the National Socialist German Workers Party Nazis
for short established a dictatorship under leader Adolf Hitler
reorganized the state with a decree announced German Race
was superior to all others in Europe suppressed all decent it
was a crime to criticize the regime new propaganda ministry
of enlightenment controls German culture art literature theatre
film music all entertainment all news April 1933 Nazi students
organize a nation wide book burning planned to eliminate all
foreign influence to purify German Aryan Culture universities
students professors determine categories un-German scour
libraries not to suppress culture but to advance Aryan German
culture shocked an educated highly intelligent nation will burn
books until this time books had not hurt anybody until Hitler
writes a book to enflame racial hatred May 10th 1933 in each
Germany university city in 34 cities thousands gather in public
books confiscated by Nazi students Nazi officials with police
help are dumped in huge piles student leaders exhort crowd
to swear an oath by book burning fire to destroy subversive
un-German literature revenge debt for foreign treason against
German soldiers in World War I an amazing variety of books
were burned all dangerous why because they were not approved
eighty ninety thousand volumes burn burn in dark German night
for weeks weeks afterward more books are confiscated taken
from libraries book shops private collections all burn burn burn
in 1821 a German poet Heinrich Heine made a chilling prediction
Heinrich said "Where books are burned, in the end people will be
burned." 112 years later this comes to pass Heine's books also burn
choke on smoke burning books becomes burning people enter Nazi
population policy annihilation of Jews Gypsies selected Poles
Russian prisoners of war any undesirables Nazis did not like
state organized mass murder on industrial scale plot genocide
holocaust mountains of shoes will mushroom behind barbed
wire mountains of glasses gold teeth pulled torture experiments
crimes civilized people should not even think of are committed
piles of starved stick limb skeleton corpses Nazis proudly kill
dictatorships confiscate mutilate reality destroy history culture
kill people dictatorships fear books rivers of free flow ideas
humanity must share liberty humanity must realize past history
can become modern reality with indifference with acceptance
of rules laws made to persecute others laws state police military
protects a holocaust survivor commenting on burning of books
may tell you what scares him most about the burning of books
those who burn books next start burning people in changing
political landscapes Nazi era born out of German democracy
is a red flag warning educated people can commit hate crimes
a life without hope can be brutally state enforced anywhere if
freedom is allowed to be stolen the mind imagination prospers
in a mind where freedom cannot be captured where freedom rules
Written in October 2020 on the 13&21.10.2020.
Inspired by the poem 'The Sacrifice' by the poet Paul Brookes.
Dedicated to the poet Paul Brookes.
Complete version of the split images 'May 10th 1933 Nazi Book Burning Fever', ' May 10th 1933 Huge Nazi Book Burning Rituals, 'May 10th 1933 Burning Books To Burning People' and 'A Warning: The Nazis Emerged From German Democracy' by the poet Terence George Craddock.
Due to the serious nature of the holocaust I dis not deal with these events in a single poem. I did a little historical context, slices of some events. Reading in order some are A Vibrant Life Appeasement For Adolf Hitler Indomitable Will To Survive Legal Genocide Committed On Industrial Scale Stone Cross Prologue Stone Cross Cartoon Caricature Of The Master Race The SS: Who Will You Kill? Classic Dance Steps Peaked Cap: Skull-And-Crossbones Badge
I was surprised anyone read this poem, due partly to length. The question is when writing about the brutality of the holocaust, which this poem does not even touch on, are a few emotive words like 'dark fever night', 'seed demon teeth', too much or not enough. Does this sort of poem does really represent a new departure in form and technique for me? Maybe it is a return to a past form and technique. I had over 34 holocaust poems written in a file, even without adding a few later editions.
A rather long poem, which reads, in part, like prose. Possibly too many emotive words-'dark fever night', 'seed demon teeth'. However, this sort of poem does represent a new departure in form and technique for you.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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some of the concluding poems were A Moral Civilized World The Death Of Adolf Hitler’s Personal Physician Dagmar Topf: A Defence Of Family Ovens Not To Be Written Struck Down With A Thunderbolt Love Has Rewards Worth Attaining SS Demons if anyone is interesting I will message more to you.