Birkenau

The Railway Track

Looking at photos to stimulate my poetry skills (cough) seems to be working for me. This is a photo of the railway track at Birkenau in Poland where Jews, gypsies and other victims of Hitler's Final Solution arrived to be gassed, cremated and starved. Looking at these images of the utter hell they all endured make me feel as sad as I did on the day I took the photos.

Although I prefer typing straight into my word processor for my clusters and freewriting, I'm taking notice of the course book and doing poetry using paper and pen. Have to really as so much to alter and also keeping each draft for reference as there could be some good bits in there.

I wish I could attempt this without the need to rhyme lines because I see how that can look contrived, yet I can't do that - yet - hopefully with practice I shall be able to.