Best Cossack Poems

Limerick : Once a Cossack in tundra cassock

Once a Cossack in tundra cassock
Crept to spy on his wife : got a shock
She lay stooped in...

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Bogdan Chmielnicki sits astride a horse
A magnificent statue in Central Kiev
To a monumental Ukrainian figure
A George Washtington-style liberator
He took it to the Poles in the...

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Hitler had a Nice Voice

Soothing to the ladies
Appealing to the masses
Wooing the elite with powerful promises
While telling the workers what they should seek

Powerful voice
Hypnotic prose...

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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...

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We Russian peasants are struggling to survive
in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and five.
The workers labor for as much as fifteen hours a...

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That's it
I'm moving to Russia
to write with the kings
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
to sit in the cafes
and watch the pretty blond
Russik girls
Cook hot in winter
and get kicked...

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Cossack Cowboys
Riding Llamas
That they dress
In pink pajamas
Teeny boppers
Blowing bubbles
Biker chicks
Causing trouble
Nuns in Habits
Punks in chains
One or two
Of the deranged
Rubbing Buddha belly
Cravers
And the band
Harvey Danger
David Bowie
Elton...

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' Me & my pal Ginsberg arrive in Poland, now more artisticly able from coffee-blood and sleep deprivation. I hear him say: "If you can...

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A curio shoppe on the edge of Khartoum
on the edge of the world
on the cusp of our doom
  smouldering incense
bade us come in
a cornucopia
whispered...

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Born in the dead of winter,
under a pale Siberian moon
Thrust from the womb
by the throes of his mother’s death,
he took his first premature breath
Cursed carnivorous...

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“Souls and Bodies We’ll Lay Down”

Ominous clouds have 
Invaded my soul;
Thrust swords into my heart.

Darker than the midnight air.
Stars gone forever more.
Bloodied hands in my...

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There is a new mythology emerging, 
Howling from the hind end of the pack, 
Scorching the composted leavings 
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of...

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American fawning pawn
wearing a king crown
How far down will you bow
to the Kremlin ground?
Peppermint kisses of appeasement
suit your licorice lips well
Shameless nude tongue abasement ......

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Argh... infamous pinwheel on macbook pro 2009

alas and alack
myopic staring eyes
bulge out their sockets,
cuz yours truly taken aback
I espied sight more frightful,
than rookie dazed chess...

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Today's a Jewish Holiday
  that fell prey to history
'Cos unless you live in Israel, the Jewish Nation
  You miss out on spectacular celebrations...

In...

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