Babushka Poems - Poems about Babushka

The Bloody Chapters of Stalingrad

...From moments when love was cherished in Stalingrad,
Like stories written on the walls 
With the song repeated by Babushka 
And not long after that, the war reached its gates.

Hands turned into ...

Camouflaged Babushka

...Try not to notice the stand-out babushka I was told.
I immediately whipped my face around, so big and bold.
She was really something with kerchief of green and gold.
I said not to look! Said my fr...

My Better Half

...White, blue and red
With you in life I wed
Babushka you may not like
Moya supraga I will surely like....

Matryoshka Marriage

...The Matryoshka marriage bound
with plush roses and spiced tulips.
Bride’s xanthous babushka, face-crowned
in Matryoshka marriage bound.
The groom peacocks with lively sound -
a bottl...

Christmas Snow

...Wanted to write a Chastushka
But Christmas snow dampened my hair
So I took out my babushka
And said, “Let it snow, I don’t care!”




* December 18, 2020
For Andrea’s Chastushka Contest...

Antipoem 4 Santo and Johnny

...AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”

(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)

Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mel...

Irene My Mother and I

...Irene....My Mother and I.

I cannot believe I am her daughter!
She always dressed in the very best taste.
Very little jewelry, conservative
dresses, no slacks, are you kidding?
A white-gloved p...

Dandelions For Ariya

...Another loss.
 It's hard to explain, it just feels like an empty pit in my stomach where a smile once so easily crossed my lips.

A lady I once called “Babushka” was laid to rest after struggling ...

The Handkerchief

...THE HANDKERCHIEF

heavy babushka
wrought with widow’s drawn out tears 
a brief lover’s note

6/28/2017
haiku form...

Kremlin Gremlins

...About an hour later she slipped
Yuri Andropov into the conversation:
*“I have to drop off a blouse at the dry cleaners.”*
Suddenly it was May Day &
I’m back in Red Square,
Dwarfed beneath larger...

Oh Beautiful Gypsy

...Oh beautiful Gypsy,
I see you there, in amber campfire mist.
On the banks of a crystalline pool, a bronze skinned lovely moving with intoxicating rhythm to the strum of guitars.
Sable eyes, gleami...

Babushka

...Babushka


The whole village busy looking at the new star
*Babushka busy cleaning her house entire
So busy to tidy her house failed to hear
The sounds of the drums and pipes
She missed ev...

The Red Babushka

...Nineteen twenty-four and the wind was cold,
When men in uniform entered our town;
Forced us to leave in their boxcars,
Made us believe that it was for our own safety.

With no time to fix our things
...

39 Lomonossov St., Kiev 252101, Ukraine

...A horde of weary eyes
at the false fountain of youth
in demo against
the fading of the majestic night;
their hushed voice vibrates against 
my seat, as I enjoy the skyline
while the silver moon...

Chernobyl

...Over a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka
And slices of kalbasa…. and cold breeze 
Of first September, you proudly spoke to me 
Of Lenin; we sat beneath the apple tree.

I disagreed not, with your thou...

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