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Past Translating Present

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Dictators, Joy, MAGA, Nazi, Perspective, Power, Regret, Trump / January 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In her youth she'd been a Hitler Youth
filled with purpose and power
and the joy of pre-teen camaraderie

All now dimmed and damned wheen seen
through smoke from Auschwitz ovens
though somewhere in her still it shines
brightest diamond of her life

This was the story, or was it two
she sought my help to put to poem

That was thirty years ago
I might do a better job today
informed by watching rallies
filled with power hope and joy
and how it will look in their regret

And Still They Waltzed

Audio Recordings / tagged Fascism, Nazi, Occupation, Politics, Trump / January 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That was Vienna then

When jackboots glid
from note to note across a polished floor
with local girls that did not want to die

Will this be America now

Translating from the German

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Authoritarians, Belief, Belonging, Community, Dictators, MAGA, Nazi, Totalitarianism, Trump / January 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes - Mark Twain
A German woman rich in years and living now in Austin
asked for some help with a poem she was trying to write

As a young girl she had been part of the Hitler Youth
whose slogan was Strength Through Joy and she felt both
and more alive than she had ever felt before or even since

What she knew now had a choke-hold of “You can’t write that”
the truth of pure feeling bemuddled with the truth of leaders lying

With help she got it written - it might mean something to you now

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Nancy Fierstien on Titanic America IIJanuary 28, 2025
Thanks for the disciplined stroke of the pen you used to write every line! I hope it gets some folks…
Gail on In-TuitionJanuary 2, 2025
Love it! “The cost of this is only in the not.”
Ken Christopher on Missing the MysteryDecember 30, 2024
Yes, the Mystery is what keeps it exciting
Ken Christopher on Christmas CardsDecember 29, 2024
Yep, the sleigh got us to town on train day and me to school every day, the poem is a…
Anonymous on Why Children Are ChristmasDecember 23, 2024
So simple, so captivating! Nice Neil to give me the feel :) Murray A

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