Balalaika Poems

Premium Memberthis poem has been written for the lute

...or the spoons
but read it accompanied by something
the French horn
the harpsichord
the balalaika at the bus stop
the burping of a favourite uncle
on the runway as passenger planes take off arou...
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Categories: balalaika, anger, confusion,
Form: Free verse

The balalaika

...It includes Sopka Veles speaks
                       the balalaika
Eumetopias Jubatus spoke this to the people.
from the  Stone area of Mesozoic and Paleozoic.
Severo-Kurilsk in the Kuril Island...
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Categories: balalaika, character, culture, film, music,
Form: Ballad


Premium MemberI am Lara

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Relaxed and warm I'm feeling
under this warm blanket,
I can sleep out from the cold.

Sometimes I wonder
if others are so lucky, 
I guess many don't,
then I get upset about my luck.

A h...
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Categories: balalaika, allegory, allusion, animal, appreciation,
Form: Personification

Gypsy Life

...Adventurous gypsy
         Mild Balalaika,
         harps and wine
         ...daggers in the heart
         dragostea illusion......
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Categories: balalaika, adventure, allegory, allusion, life,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberVisiting Euthanasia

...There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where you meet your maker to a balalaika...
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Categories: balalaika, farewell,
Form: Limerick


Festive Bohemian Heart

...Delusional scimitars
festive daggers
soft balalaika
captive sword ...
Mandolins,
hot nights
harps, wine
poison,...
dangers
daggers
Banjo and
boldness,
gypsy waltz,
ruby joy ...
I desire...
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Categories: balalaika, allegory, allusion, celebration, extended
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEuthanasia

...There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where you meet your maker to a balalaika...
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Categories: balalaika, death,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberEuthanasia

...There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where you meet your maker to a balalaika...
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Categories: balalaika, age,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberDancing

...To jitterbug and jive, perhaps to feel alive;
Dreaming that I too could dance as well as you;
Strutting to a tango in Chichicastenango
Touring a veranda edged with jacaranda.
Four eyes eagerly da...
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Categories: balalaika, dance, dream, imagery, music,
Form: Imagism

Gypsy Heart

...Gypsy heart
Delusional Scimitars
festive daggers
soft balalaika
captive sword ...
Mandolins,
hot nights
harps and wine
venom of passion, ...
dangers
daggers
Banjo and
boldness,
gypsy wal...
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Categories: balalaika, allusion, analogy, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Tragedy of Poet and Poetry

...Oh, how sweet you are, Russian poetry! How unapproachable! Let the poet up to your balcony while no one's looking. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, that…* But why don’t you send your ...
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Categories: balalaika, poetry, poets, relationship,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberVisiting Euthanasia

...There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where we meet our maker to a balalaika...
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Categories: balalaika, scary,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberEuthanasia

...There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where we meet our maker to a balalaika...
...
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Categories: balalaika, life,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberVisiting Euthanasia

...There's a town in Switzerland called Euthanasia
It's a happy place very much like Fantasia
With pretty flowers
Singing songs by the hour
Where you meet your maker to a balalaika...
...
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Categories: balalaika, silly,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes: the How of Democratic Kill - Xxxix, Part One

...Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill – XXXIX, Part One

Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the chief proponent of Soviet literature, the ...
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Categories: balalaika, anti bullying, courage, dedication,
Form: Lay

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