Best Caspian Poems

Silent Lies and Deception


In the silence of murky waters
There slithers oily snakes of the night
Wearing masks of deception
Beware of fools singing with Stalin’s tongue

The KGB...

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The whirling Dervish leaves fell…
Clouds of reindeer from the kebab 
House as well, in deepest down town 
Camberwell …a Turkish Christmas 
…he announced
“Come and hunt...

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The great Kings and Queens have now returned
to a time and a land so foreboding and spurned.
Since the time they had left what could have...

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A place where the forgotten still roam free;
of creatures and lands that once used to be.
The doorway to here could be any where;
to a time...

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The gift of life
is a word unspoken

Hurried words
are buried words,
made of glass,
that burst into
into orange tangerine
flames, as words
singe the earth

Words are buried
deep beneath the
pinecone trees,
like...

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caspian sailor
          having spousal dreams, creates 
         ...

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I waited
Under the outspread foliage
Of the banana tree, 
With ripening fruits dangling precariously, 
Wondering, 
With eyes set on the earth, 
Wishing I understood
This everlasting madness.
To...

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The Caspian Sea; is that where friendly ghosts go for vacation?
Big as a football field: don't you know about foot measurements??
The Swat Team;  I...

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Ruslan is Caucasian and he’s my true blood brother
Unlike me, he has a rare Herculean body, and mind
Strong and bold he is, yet gentle; tall,...

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A BUTTERFLIGHT’S MR. RIGHT

Last night was television and going to sleep at eight
You were exhausted even though it wasn’t very late
So upon your pillow placed...

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COME HOME SOLDIER 

 
No more sounds of tanks, 
The rain of bullets has seized, 
Grenades are no more fund, 
Remove your helmet and lie...

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It is my most special place on earth 
and no one knows that but me
Who knows where this log has been 
before it washed in...

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Water Hand Pump
I wonder whence the pipe goes?
Underground Niagra, Mississippi or Caspian Sea?
Working the Up-Down Handle like Punching a PIN,
A Subterranean ATM of Cool Crystal...

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the shadow of
the grim 
reaper carving 
out the 
Indian white moon
swinging his scythe
splitting the moon
back and forth
through pitch-black
Russian sky
and soon
hanging over
the Black
Caspian Sea 
are these
Gemini...

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Panthira tigris,
gone extinct.

The way of the Caspian,
the Javan and the Bali.

Forgotten in history;
to be replaced
...by man's folly.

The majestic, muscular
orange facade.
Peppered with black
and spicy shag.

...And those...

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