The Yellow Star of David
THE YELLOW STAR OF DAVID
Long transport coaches come in the night
Spewing acrid dark strands of coaly smokes repugnant in the sight
Halting with shrieking noises facing the gheto hostes by the right
Hordes of Jewish passengers guarded by the Jewish Police are driven in without a fght
Beaten by the dreaded Gestapos and troop in with so much might
Ill-fated Jews prisoners wear the yelow David Star by the arms tight
Despaired of seeing ever the similitude of Mosess guiding light
When escaping against the Pharaoh's plot throughout the night
Crossing the dreaded divided Nile River like a fash of a light
Now, crammed in the wooden coaches like sardines in a can
Coughing, indistinct yelling like sweltering on a frying pan
Sufocating and dying one by one without some hushes of a fan
So deadly, the horrible journey begins at the end
Auschwitz, Trebinka, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen where they meet their end
Delousing deadpan humour turns to painful dying bend
In the gas chamber, Jewish answer was a deadly Zyklone
Crématoriums are surreptitiously fed alone
With the naked innocent passengers' corpse
Which in time turn to pallid heaps of crushed ashe
About this poem
The poem talks about the plight of Jewish prisoners transported to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
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Written on March 28, 0202
Submitted by alhassanishakalhassan on March 28, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,152 |
Words | 195 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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