Classic and Contemporary Poetry
1648 : FOR COSSACKS, by ANONYMOUS First Line: Bitter times / the cossack krivno Last Line: Jewish prey Subject(s): Cossacks;jews;mysticism - Judaism;pogroms; Judaism | ||||||||
bitter times the cossack Krivno in the town of Bar stood with Lysenko all those decent people set a cross up led our brothers doomed men broken boned out of a dark pit a black grave Krivno who comforts them says "spoke to your old men "your bosses says it gives forth a laugh "now I speak final words "both for my men & you "whose wives & children "suffer long from "hunger thirst cold "ask you to bow to "cross end blindnesses "happily live on earth Jews answer "silence evil man "no other words "better you kill us here "no change of minds nay nay "mind's bright as sunlight "evil man can't work it "mind knows no other faith "though we be cut up burnt "at stake et cetera image of terror follows o genocide for Holy Name & leaves a desert wilderness strewn with the bones of Jewish prey Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD A LITTLE HISTORY by DAVID LEHMAN FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE NATIONAL THOUGHTS by YEHUDA AMICHAI SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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