Poland Writing

5 creative works found

• The Dybbuk's Tale
  by smitisan

  I can’t think of any juicy bits that, taken out of context, wouldn’t offend just about everybody. Let that be a warning to ya.

  This is a play now, a one act I’m working on a companion piece for, both dealing with possession via reincarnation.

• Lest we forget.......
  by Graham Ettridge

  I took a long slow walk up the middle of the camp along the side of the railway line. The rain kindly disguised the tears that ran down m…

• Poland
  by cosine

  Then Russian soldiers invaded. The Germans fled, but not before they had set fire to the houses.

  Oral History

• Eastern Horizons
  by rononbjr

  How many times I do / remind myself / this isn’t home

  The very noticeable, very mellow atmosphere is the first thing that catches me in Poland. It is so notable you could swear you crossed a definite ordinate line of some kind. I very muched enjoyed it and this poem is just to dscribe that mellow ambiance.

• Like a leaf
  by Wanagi Zable-Andrews

  Silhouettes of passing figures wind between a web of streets / and under giant figs, / their shapes morphed in dark reflections / on the age…

  My grandfather Meier Zable was Polish Jew who immigrated to Melbourne before WWII. The rest of his family died in Poland at the hands of the Nazis. A prolific poet, he wrote his last poem in Yiddish on the final page of an exercise book before dying from a heart attack. A line translated from this poem was: “I feel like I am a leaf, falling into eternity”