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Yugoslavia

...Yugoslavia

My first wife and I went on holiday
55 years ago, in Yugoslavia
The tourist industry was struggling
to find its feet, we stayed in a freshly
painted barracks, which caused some
jok...

Categories: belgrade, anti bullying, birthday, care,
Form: ABC

Fallacious Wars

...Fallacious wars

 The war in Ukraine disturbs me greatly
Russia invaded and invasion is as we know illegal
with few exceptions like when NATO attacked  
Serbia, Bombed Belgrade hit the Chinese e...

Categories: belgrade, allegory, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse

Amy Whinehouse

...Amy, Amy, what a voice,
As from heaven,
You’re a jazz singer,
Of the ones we can’t forget,
Sensitive, you felt guilty,
To refuse a photo,
You had too big a heart,
We asked you a hundred times,...

Categories: belgrade, appreciation, blessing, celebrity, miss
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Alfred In the Wilderness

...Alfred and the wilderness  

Alfred, who with the greatest of ease tells, me he is not my father
and Olga, he had a brief affair with In Belgrade, is not my mother
we went for a walk across a gre...

Categories: belgrade, blessing, humor,
Form: Sonnet

Lili Marlene

...Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And fre...

Categories: belgrade, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form: Verse

Bombs Away Part One

...The TV said the bombs were falling
All over Belgrade/Baghdad, Libya, Syria 
And a thousand other lands 
All over the world 

The bombs were falling down
All over the place

Yes, the bombs wer...

Categories: belgrade, america, anger, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse

Manchester United 1958-Part 1 of 3

...Manchester United 1958-Part 1 of 3
by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015

I remember the 6th February, in 1958, 
the day before my 16 birthday, everything was great
I was working at the CIS, an Insurance...

Categories: belgrade, death, funeral,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Perfect Love

...I’d give you the perfect love
and the wretch, without which there would be no perfect love
I’d give you a night that has yet to be born
and morning with vile intentions that has not happened yet
...

Categories: belgrade, love,
Form: Free verse

Belgrade On Champs-Elysees

...my soul plunged into sadness
and this town becomes my cry
Belgrade in Paris
when I feel its beautiful avenue
singing the hymn to nostalgia
oh land of my youthfulness
my lovely Serbia

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Categories: belgrade, cry, nostalgia, paris, passion,
Form: Ballade

The Trip

...You know what I bought this bed sofa the other day
          It was the sort for a lofa,yeah it was blue and grey
          But yeah I had to take it back, because it had a rip
          And would...

Categories: belgrade, natural disasters, me, me,
Form: Rhyme

Love Thy Neigbour

...I don't want to sound like no rant nor raver
But when people say to me love thy neighbour
This woman has no once of common courtesy
It's like shes always there ready to pouce on me

A fussy old ...

Categories: belgrade, life, me, old, sound,
Form: Rhyme

Jesse Jackson - Kosovo Mission

...JESSE JACKSON - KOSOVO MISSION
         Belgrade, 1999
They thought to the west 
and the homes they all knew
in a meloncholy dark and blue,
these three of a kind on a mission of peace,
these th...

Categories: belgrade, black african american, history,
Form: Rhyme