Gershon Wolf Poet Rhyme

The Drumbeat and the March

  
      For a century and more
        the socialist drumbeat and march
      Workers of the world unite
        no more capitalist oligarchs

      Bloody Soviet-style communism under Vladimir Lenin
        gave way to mass murderer, Iosif Stalin
      The Weimar Republic fell before ‘enlightened socialism’
         swiftly changing to jack-booted Nazi fascism       

      Cuba’s revolution, North Korea’s, the Viet Cong’s
         O, Civilization, where has the world gone wrong
       Today we see misery in Venezuela, Pakistan and Iran
          Repeating the tragedy of China’s Mao Zedong

       For a century and more, the socialist drumbeat and march
          food deserts abounding, humanity’s throats dry and parched

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sara Etgen-Baker November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM well said capturing the tragedy of socialism. Has no one today read history and of the lessons it reveals about socialism. People are such sheep!

Daniel Henry Rodgers November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM Hello Gershon, I like how you bring history and current events together in a way that feels urgent yet poetic. Makes you pause and think about the bigger picture. Autumn Blessings, Gershon, Daniel

John Lawless November 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM I learned at an early age that...THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE MEAL......somebody somewhere is paying for it....