4th Period Poets

The Newspaper with the Picture of the Little Boy Standing with His Arms Up, Afraid to be Shot

Louis Rios

I am not a
journalist,
but I would
write a thousand
newspapers to
let people know
how it might've
been for the little
Polish boy standing
with his arms up

probably scared
he might
get shot by
so many guns
and the first thing
that comes to mind
is to put his hands
up hoping they'll find out
he's harmless.


Innocent People Attacked by the Nazis

Juan G. Caraballo

Simple and humble people
they're injustly punished
suffering because they're Jews
they're injustly killed.

Having no idea for their punishment
they're injustly incarcerated
crying even though they don't deserve it
they're injustly suffering.

Crying when they're separated from their loved ones
crying when they're hungry
crying when they're thirsty
crying when the world is on top of them and they don't know why.


I Wish I Could

Layla Sheik

I wish I could stand there beside you
feel the fear that you're going through

I wish I could wipe the tears in your
eyes
try my best to hold you tight

I wish I could whisper in your ears
"Everything will be alright"
hold you close until the moon
comes up at night

I wish I could put you to sleep
happily
read you a bed time story that will
leave you sleeping peacefully


I Want to Have Peace

Elizabeth Garcia

I was so sad.
I stood in the middle of the street.
I didn't know what to do.
I said to my mom, "I love you" for
the last time.

Everybody is crying and that makes
me feel bad.
I don't want to see people crying
every minute.
I just want to have peace
I believe that some day my people
are gonna have the freedom that I
don't have now.
I hope the Nazis leave every person
free to live their life like every other person does.


To the Policeman Standing like a Snowman

Anguei D. Masham

Since no one seems to be your advisor, well, I'll
be, because people seem to be
scared of your long nose look

I see why people don't touch
you? because of your sensitivity Mr.
Snowman, you're like a worship thing
for them
Wake up Mr. Lucky, the sun
is out! I'm just warning you so
that you don't melt!

You see before the winter time
no one ever thinks of you or even
has an image of you

Now's the winter time, you had just
appeared and got people all packed in front
of your cold weather, begging you for
forgiveness without thinking of their health!

Some of them
hoping for another
season to come
for you!

Like a summer
time so watch
out for the sun
Mr. Snowman!

I had a desire
for unjust
laws to
come
for
you!


To the Soldiers with Guns Pointing at the Jews

Samson William

If only you would know what
you are doing and what you are
doing it for, do you care about
them, well it doesn't look like
you care by pointing guns
at them. Imagine if it was
your family that was being forced
out of their houses with everything
they could grab. I know that you
don't know why you are doing it, is
it because Hitler can kill you
and he has control over you, but
all I can tell is, if you help them,
Hitler will be defeated and don't
just stand there like you don't know
we are all one people and one nation.


The Poor Mother Having a Hard Time

Fartun Abdi

Poor mother, I would like you
to be the richest person in
the world.

But, standing with your
hand rising, with your children
and the Nazi who's looking
at you like a bad person makes
me feel sad.

I wish you would be
a queen one day with a
lot of jewelry and
money so that you would
just forget everything
that happened to you when
you were having a hard time
because of the Nazis.


A Little Polish Boy

Sitra Gatur

A little Polish boy, with his hands in the air.
Uncomfortably standing and crying for help
But none paid any attention to his tears
His mother stood next to him full of fears
Praying to God to save her little boy
His life shouldn't be destroyed.

A little Polish boy, wearing father's hat and
Coat, freezing and shaking from the cold
Like a frozen statue, he stood in the first
Row waiting for the gun to explode to
Blow his dreams away. And steal from
Him night and day.

Oh little Polish boy, oh little Polish boy
I wish I could help your innocent soul
Wherever you are, let angels be with
You. That is what your destiny brought
To you in a young age, you last your life
And I only ask why did you have to die,
Why?


My Own Life

Waldemar Viera

Life is really hard
Life is really strong
If you would be here
right now you would
know what I'm going
through
I'm scared, scared of my
life, my people, why,
why did it have to be
this way? God, oh god
please help! Not me
but my people
Life is really hard life
is really strong the only
one who knows that is God.


My Son

Anthony Caba

I was standing in Poland in the
ghetto and I thought I lost my son
but I saw him in the line where all
the people were,
I was the happiest
person on Earth when I
saw my son, he was
lost, did not know
where he was at
he was crying, then
I grabbed him and told him
that I love him and promised
that I will never leave him
again.



To All the People who Suffered in the Holocaust

Kariam Figueroa

I'm sorry
I am sorry to all the kids and people
who were in the Holocaust
I know what you people went
through, all the suffering you people went through
It makes me feel sad
for just look at you people in a photo
My soul gets sad really sad
sometimes it makes me cry
and while I'm crying
I ask myself,
Why did they do that?
What kind of heart have they got to do such
a thing like that?
One thing that gets my sould really sad
is seeing the kids in a photo crying
while some of them are looking for their
parents
I'm sorry
I am sorry to all the kids and people
who were in the Holocaust.


The Little Polish Boy

Eduardo Vargas

My own life
Their own life
Our own life
Why, why should we be
afraid when I've got God
Why are people just standing
there and not doing anything
for us why aren't you doing anything?
My own life
Their own life
Our own life
Why, why should they be afraid
when they have God
My own life
Their own life
Our own life
Why, why should they be afraid
when they have God
My own life
Their own life
Why, why should we be afraid
when we've got God.

To the Boy with his Arms Up

Aleksandra Kajzaz

I wish I could have helped you

I wish someone did something to stop this

I wish people were more understanding

I wish that war doesn't exist.

Kids like you are innocent

And didn't deserve for this to happen

I wish the guns were not pointed at kids

I wish nobody got this started

I don't think it was fair

For kids like you to get killed.

I wish somebody paid attention

To what was really happening.

I Want to be Someone and I'm not Scared

Bekim Avid

I see a little boy holding his
hands up, and I see officers pointing
their guns at the little boy and
lots of people around him and his
mom telling him "move out of the
way son!" The boy does not want to
stay in the ghetto he wants to
be someone so everyone will know
him, and put a big poster with a
picture with me in it, so everyone
would se me, he said.


To the Little Polish Boy

Abdirizak Abdi

I wish I could come up with an idea that
will help you, little Polish boy with your
hands up in the air surrounded by the Nazis
pointing a gun at you in the middle of many other
people. I wish I was there for you, put my
hand around you, wipe tears from you eyes when
ever you cry.

I would like to be an artist, so I could make a
painting of you, little Polish boy with the small
hat on your head, the star of David on
your coat standing in a camp controlled by
the Nazi people. I would point a flash
light at you or take a microphone and announce
you little Polish boy so that the whole
universe can see you, hear you, and remember
you being treated miserably.

I would write many books about you or sing
songs of you to the world
who ignore you or say nothing when they hear
about you. For those who don't see you I would
make a painting so bright that it will
make you blind.

You little Polish boy with a small hat on
your head, the star of David on your coat, I would
blast the eardrums of those who heard
nothing. I am very sad that you are
treated like this and it happened to you not me.