Day of Remembrance #2
The day of remembrance of the holocaust The sirens sing their enchanting monotonies Stopping time for only a moment,
Yet birds still fly
And grasses rustle in the oblivious breeze.
Mike Stone
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The day of remembrance of the holocaust The sirens sing their enchanting monotonies Stopping time for only a moment,
Yet birds still fly
And grasses rustle in the oblivious breeze.
Mike Stone's poem sets a national moment of silence beside the ordinary world outside it. On the day of remembrance for the Holocaust, sirens sound and time seems to pause.
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