Reader Response Blog
Please post your summer reading recommendations for others! Give the title, author and a quote from the text or a teaser about the book. Have a great summer! The “found poems” are still posted for your enjoyment as well.
Please post your summer reading recommendations for others! Give the title, author and a quote from the text or a teaser about the book. Have a great summer! The “found poems” are still posted for your enjoyment as well.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
Hysteria
Six men danced,
as ten guns roared.
Four witnesses smiled,
as ten guns roared.
Two screams pierced the air,
as ten guns roared.
One kiss wispered tenderness,
as ten guns roared.
No sorrow, no protesting, no choice.
Only dead bodies and much work,
as ten guns roared.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
The Final Moment
Silence dragged, birds cried,
Six men raised Shmuel
Hannah’s voice hardly protesting
Four men
Two pushed Fayge crying
Moaners witnesses awful guns,
They began to drag the
dead bodies back toward the gate.
Silent.
Rivka whispered to Hannah as Shmuel went to the stack.
B894513
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Protesting, moaning witnesses watch, searching the crowd,
no choice, no choice.
Crying and shrill screams pierced the air–loud guns roared–
Silence. Awful, strange, clear sky above, trees danced merrily, birdsong mocking from the woods. The horror, work drowned fear, the dead mourned the living, the loved, whispered tenderness, smiled from above–
in God’s canopy free at last
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:14 am
I Will Let You Watch
Witnesses, crowd, silent
Guards, wall, guns
Searching for his face, smile, or kiss
Slowly lined up
Screams, dark stains, silence
Horror, dead, sorrow
Kommandos, Lilith’s Cave
No sign of God’s love, tenderness, or pride
All alone
Souls lifted towards the sky
Heading home
-V914117
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 am
Final Farewell
Silence scum, there is work to do.
The boy bent down and kissed the top of her head,
and held her with tenderness.
The six men slowly raised their guns.
He was dragged from her.
Crying, she called his name.
Four, three, two, one, he was gone from her.
He was her one and only.
One and only.
J904091
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Horror Filled World
Move Brother, Dead Bodies,
Loud screams kissed the sky,
Soldiers feared them, mourned them
Horror, Guns, Sorrow,
Grim hysteria loved them,
They drowned searching witnesses,
Silence, Protesting suddenly,
Awful, choice, dealt,
Crying pride, they dragged flinging,
Drag guns work strange rhythms,
Tenderness voice, Watch!
Whispered, Scum
By: H149109
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Death’s Wall
To the wall…
The six damned men were moved.
The crowd was silent…
Dark stains and holes covered the wall.
Guns raised, the soldiers drowned out all screams, wind, and birdsong…
Birds merrily cried out. They fell…
Carry your loved ones.
Silent, Silent
A915289
-Graham
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
God’s Canopy
“Move them to the wall” said the Commander.
“Silence!”
“If you are silent, I will let you watch.”
They were all silent.
Not because they wanted to watch,
but because they wanted to witness.
“The sky is our canopy. God’s canopy.”
“Let them go up the stack.”
The soldiers began to drag the dead
bodies back toward the gate.
The blokova came forward soon after,
smiling menacingly.
The wooden spoon hung, with which
she dealt out blows.
“Schnell. Schnell.
There is much work to do.”
N039123
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 am
The Sky
The six men were lined with their backs to the wall with holes and dark stains.
One alone smiled.
Slowly the soldiers raised their guns,
And the men began in clear voices, with a
Note of Hysteria
“Shema Yisreal, Adonai Eloheyu…”
But one was silent,
That same strange smile on his face.
Birds cried out merrily, and the tops of trees
Danced to the rhythms. At last his lips moved,
“The Sky is our Canopy,”
With no sign of sorrow or horror,
Just conscious tenderness and pride.
There was a protesting from the crowd,
An undercurrent of moaning.
He put his fingers to his lips,
“The Sky.”
The guns roared,
And the loud volley drowned out the birdsong.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
God Above
The crowd gathered because they had no ohter choice
With a shrill whistle the guns roared, drowning out the protesting screams
Crying aloud the crowd pierced the air with screams of sorrow and horror
The soldiers raise their guns and the crowd is silent
They are witnesses as the dead bodies are carried away, leaving only dark stains behind
A clear voice cries out to god above
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
Listen to your Heart
The screeching sound, guns whistled
Six men lined up
Wall pocked, hole, dark stains
Feared of protesting, screams
Her face horrow, sorrow his kiss
A wail, loved, dead bodies
Soliers dragged, the stack
Crying witnesses, work wooden spoons
Loud voice, whispered pride!
God’s canopy awaits!
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
A Defiant Witness
All except herself feared them.
One choice might carry honor and death.
Protesting work did not do.
She heard a crowd moaning,
One hand raised, crying for God.
Bodies were lined up face to face.
One smiled as the guns sounded.
A wall stood behind, covered with dark stains.
M391415
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
The Death
The crowd was protesting.
Six men screamed at the sky.
The soldiers marched off with one boy.
He was my brother.
I wanted to cry.
Out came ten birds from the woods.
They are to be a witness of the dead bodies.
The air was silent.
C914160
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
God will set you free
The dark, silent soldiers stood at the gate
Six men with pride
Backs to the wall facing the crowd
Work will set you free
The men stood in silence
With strange smiles on their faces
The crowd stood in horror looking up at there loved ones
Work will set you free
They where smiles of contentment
The soldiers raised their guns and fired
God will set you free
C904951
January 8th, 2009 at 11:00 am
These poems are dark like mrs. colmen said they would be but they are very good. It is interesting how they came out to be from words scrambled together.