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Dana- Hell does not last forever



Hell does not last forever
By: Dana Michaels
Whips cracking around me
Silence enveloping words
With hope in our eyes
Hell does not last forever
Tattooed numbers
A-7713
The Buna
SS officers
The crate
With hope in our eyes
Hell does not last forever
Fear greater than hunger
Breathing air filled with fire and smoke
With hope in our eyes
Hell does not last forever
The pipel boy
Soup tasting of corpses
Long nights of tourching work
Watching young children with lives ahead of them
Perish
Does Hell last forever

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  1. AnonymousOctober 26, 2018 at 10:14 AM

    Great work Dana on your found poem! This poem is very powerful, how it is saying that hell does not last forever, and then at the end, saying that hell does last forever. The last three lines where it says, " Watching young children with lives ahead of them, Perish, Does hell last forever." These last three lines are the most powerful in the poem, as you talk about how the children would be killed, then asked if hell does last forever. Overall, brilliant job!

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  2. AnonymousOctober 27, 2018 at 8:21 AM

    Dana,
    I would suggest you add stanzas, ending everytime you say, "hell does not last forever."
    Outside of that I would also suggest putting similar or related together and/or putting events in chronological order
    Otherwise your poem is very powerful and while pointing out the Terrible events of the Holocaust still outlined the hope that the Jews needed to keep alive to survive.

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