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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