Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Quotes
Short Stories
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Resources
Syllable Counter
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 3.133.151.181
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
ELECTRIFICATION OF UDELNAYA MARKET Thank goodness New glass steel towers are cleaning up the mess Of Udelnaya market. Traffic was too fast * Street is pedestrianised and bypassed Bright lights are lit and a secret lover Can no longer be met under the dark trees cover. 5:30 pm and the cherry girl is no more Only her wooden stall and empty boxes at the door Near the musicians in the street Still slowly tapping their feet The off-key folksinger (bit of an alcohol smell) And the old lady who can sing on key and well. Chinese tee-shirts selling for 40 roubles in a paper packet In glass steel shops are 400 (in cellophane jacket). The knife man is gone, with his machetes, kukris, Bayonets , hunting knives, switchblades, bowies, Now it’s a telephone shop Buy anything with only a five minute stop. The little café run by the Tadjiks * Where you’d get real piping-hot shashliks Is now a computer store And there’s going to be more. The steam baths are closed, no hot and cold sprays And DVD players are on sale there( 20% off always). Floating up still is a child’s balloon From the toy stall, to be burst soon - Spiked to death on the microwave antenna tower Which delivers such telephonic power. Traffic thundered past in concentrations Drowning out conversations In the tiny kiosk where I used to find Dresses for my wife - just the right kind. All this chaos is almost gone (thank goodness) Muddy in the summer, in winter icy-treacherous. Steel and glass windows reflect the bright And penetrating electric light. 5:45 and it’s almost closing time. ………………………………………………… NOTE *Udelnaya is a colorful older district in inner St. Petersburg, which had an extensive and hugely interesting market, including all sorts of goods, new and second hand, where a great deal of haggling and general chit chat took place. Now sadly being redeveloped. *Tadjiks are people from Tadjikistan, one of the former republics in the USSR. Many Tadjiks live and work in St. Petersburg. Their cuisine is exotic and tasty.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required