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P O E M S
Poems can be better at expressing feelings
Rudi Stern wrote very good poems, quite long, really beautiful poems. I write shorter ones, but that’s enough for me.
I have the feeling that if I think about something and something impresses me, I can express my feelings better in this way. I have a poem which I like to read out at the end of my visit to schoolchildren here in England every year.
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TO MY PARENTS
You gave me live and nurtured it with love.
You taught me right from wrong, trust in the one above.
For fifteen years I stayed within the family fold
Then sent away from you, to England I was told.
You gave me life anew with greater pangs of pain,
Since you were well aware we' d never meet again.
You made a choice so many years ago,
Such selfless love when you did need me so.
And, in a way, my need was much the same
Though never given voice, adds sadness to my shame.
Could I have known or felt what you went through,
I should have been much more in debt to you.
For, I am here and live my live so free,
What you twice overgave so generously to me.
Written in 1989 – on the occasion of the first Kindertransport re-union in London.
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