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Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy

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Dr Mikhail Tyaglyy


Go, young man,
and conciliate cravings,
menacing palls the cherished
realm. Shelves are left barren
for frantic looks, as aisles
reload a virtuous plunge of
cobwebbed books, decaying
prints accolades of vice barren 
save one issue ...
record stamped BUNKER.

Youths immersed
in causality and confidence,
protest keeps step as discord
spreads outward.

Mein Kampf now theirs,
whimsical misfits and loose
ends, melee erupts as age and
gender are trivial.

Young Romanis heed,
while zeal enlivens heels
as a body passes by,
in lieu of a gurney --
a wheelbarrow suffices.

Cadaverous festers,
for the emboldened few,
dare pierce opacity,
glimmers flit defiant palls,
as capricious spells
law books are easily tainted,
usurpers once blind,
struggles timorously
in their judicial robes.

If e'er survivors
from off the streets,
perchance a hearing,
they'll hear an echoing
in the silent courtroom,
'tis the calm ere the
storm, calamity on
trial, as justice for the
dead is made more dead
than death itself.

50s long gone bigotry kept
Santayana periods of disorder
a bedlam of societies rise
aphoristically said,
"Those who cannot remember 
the past,
is condemned to repeat it".
   
~~a floor lies hope, shift ends, dustpan waits a couple more years.


2022 July 29
*1st Place*
Dr. Mikhail Tyaglyy
~~Joe Maverick: Judged 2022 July 31

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Joe Maverick August 1, 2022 at 11:14 PM Hello Hilo, thank you for putting this out, How can people learn or reflect? If the mirror Of reality is covered? Though it be a diphanous One, the full cloak is in the wings.' Therefore The fire of truth must be tended, whereupon Such props can be placed ' I appreciate the time You took here, on behalf of those who seek Enlightenment, many blessings.' William Kelii Kekaula August 1, 2022 at 11:27 PM Your deep sentiments are far-reaching, Joe, and I've felt them, for it pleases me to be a vessel of light, for knowledge is a compelling force that freely steered me. Aloha, my friend, William~