King Vlad Redux - Second Cold War
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Author's Notes: This polemic poem entitled: "King Vlad Redux -- Second Cold War," is a sequel to the very first poem I posted on PoetrySoup on August 9th this year, named: "King Vlad." I know that some readers with my first poem probably thought I was writing about Vlad Tepes -- the historical Dracula, vice my real subject: President Vladimir Putin of Russia who President George W. Bush informally referred to, in former times, as his friend "Vlad," and could supposedly "see his very soul." Nevertheless, my topic then, and the topic of this poem now is on President Putin and his continued role in violating international law and accepted norms of behavior, and his undeniable role in negatively shaping and influencing the terrible events continuing to unfold in the Ukraine and beyond. This poem further amplifies the poetic theme I presented in my first "King Vlad" poem, and goes a step further in viewing Putin's current international mischief and misbehavior as part of his greater plan to confront the West and the Free World in general with the seeming intent of creating a new Second Cold War. This is also his prelude oriented toward bringing Russia back to the days of the old Soviet Union with no freedom, no democracy, no real economy; henceforth, a retrograde back to the Stone Age. With all this, Putin wants to take Russia back to the dark past of former Soviet times, and not lead her into the future with a sense of good governance, enlightenment, and respect for other nations and people. The ingredients are all here for a Second Cold War. I hope readers will find this poem to be of interest. (I used to work as a Soviet Specialist, among other things, when I was with the U.S. military and U.S. government.) And so my take here is based on professional insight and experience -- and not emotion. The freedom that we all have as poets and writers would be greatly restricted, if not, nonexistent -- if we lived in Putin's "New Russia." Something to think about!! (Gary Bateman - November 30, 2014) (Unrhymed Quatrain poetic format)
Categories: betrayal, corruption, discrimination, evil, international, political, and war.
King Vlad Redux – Second Cold War
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions bespeak one who’s not an architect for peace—not at all,
rather a quite deceitful dictator and a harbinger of a Second Cold War.
King Vlad’s old Soviet-style actions are clear for all who care to see,
and make no mistake about it—he’s without remorse and a soul to boot.
A Master of Malarkey and an International Bamboozler Supreme, he
certainly is, with a menacing image and not one iota of conscience.
King Vlad risks a Second Cold War with his violation of international
law concerning the blatant, illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
With his brand of new style Soviet adventurism on the march, the Old
Soviet Bear has been resurrected anew—and it’s hot on the prowl again!
King Vlad’s new spirit of nationalism for Russia is not at all progressive
as evidenced by his current war on certain ethnic minorities: Jews, Tartars,
Armenians, Gypsies—to include anyone who chooses to resist and protest
against his new age fanaticism rebranded anew in the twenty-first century.
King Vlad’s lineage to and proclivity for the old Soviet Union and its star
cast of past gangster luminaries: Lenin, Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Brezhnev,
and Andropov—to name a few, are quite telling since they reflect the real
nature of his psyche and the tragedy he brings now to the world stage.
And lest we forget, the innocent souls of the murdered passengers from flight
MH17 in eastern Ukraine who cry out, as do their families, for justice from
the criminal thuggery and hooliganism perpetrated by King Vlad in support
of proxy groups that do his evil biddings soaked in lies, treachery, and deceit.
King Vlad takes pleasure in fulfilling a fanciful role today of the old Soviet
Bolshoi Nachalnik (Big Boss), whose historical antecedents from Soviet Big
Bosses of past fame, doesn’t augur well for future democracy in New Russia,
and doesn’t align with the precepts of good governance and human rights.
King Vlad’s treachery and deception are certainly open for everyone to see
as he executes his plan of disrupting the balance of the current world order.
We all should be forewarned of the clouds of tyranny and aggression that
could be unleashed one day on the European continent and the world today.
King Vlad, despite very strong objections and economic sanctions imposed
by Western leaders and diplomats, understands only one word rendered so
poignantly in the German language: die Macht (or Power), which lurks ever
behind his public mask and psychological makeup as a former KGB officer.
King Vlad’s actions reflect his virtues of lying, denying, accusing, rejecting,
and criticizing—all poison arrows in his quiver as a Master of Prevarication.
His real mask is that of a Monster who had the very best Soviet teachers and
wishes to tilt the axis of his New Russia on a collision course with the West.
And so Generalissimo Stalin . . . how do you like your nasty little boy now???
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved (November 30, 2014)
(Narrative Quatrain)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2014
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