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Best Iron Curtain Poems

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Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill- the Tailor
chose material, designed fashion

Franklin D Roosevelt- the Weaver
later wove success with Marshall magic

Joseph Stalin- the Color Master
painted the Curtain with blood of...

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Categories: iron curtain, peace, satire, world war
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Invasion of Ukraine
On the twenty fourth of February in twenty twenty two
Russia invaded Ukraine and fierce fighting did ensue 
Vladimir Putin it seems, wants to restore the...

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Categories: iron curtain, conflict, death, military, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Russian Evil Will Thrive If Good Men Do Nothing
The west went in guns blazing to help their fellow man
In Syria against the Islamic State and in Iraq and Afghanistan
They brought an end to...

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Categories: iron curtain, conflict, death, war, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member DON'T FORGET UKRAINE?
Between an unjust war or peace, which would you choose?
Ukraine had no choice so we must ensure they don't lose
Russian thugs invaded Ukraine to reinstate...

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Categories: iron curtain, conflict, death, war,
Form: Rhyme
Broken England
Broken England
By Steven Cooke

My Brave ancestors of England,
Look away, for I offend thee.

For your England is no more.
Decay eats away at this fallen empire.
Your people...

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Categories: iron curtain, sad, england, green, life,
Form: Free verse



Building a Wall
I'm writing this poem in the last days of 2018. The government of the United States is shut down in a fight over the building...

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Categories: iron curtain, america, freedom, history, political,
Form: Blank verse
Pray For Rain
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against thee; if they
pray toward this place, and confess thy name,
and turn...

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Categories: iron curtain, prayer, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Greatest Figures
Figures of immense reputation and popularity they were
Attracting public attention and admiration in the pursuit of their great works
Leaving behind them a legacy of some...

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Categories: iron curtain, history, work, history, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Remember
“I remember...” an old man said,
“When the first shot rang out,
When the rebels held their stead,
The British bullets flew about,
And through our ranks they sped.”
Though...

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Categories: iron curtain, conflict, courage, freedom, patriotic,
Form: Rondeau
Draw a Line
DRAW A LINE
By: William S. Labtis

To draw a line there must be a justification
As to divide takes a distinction/ qualification from
Like a demarcation line -...

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Categories: iron curtain, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Red Bird
Worlds collide in my throat 
as the galaxy of my heart is
torn asunder. Desperation lives 
in my eyes, sweet salty sweat 
pours down the avenging...

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Categories: iron curtain, allegoryheart, song, sweet, longing,
Form: Free verse
Santa Monica, Ca
Children of the iron curtain 

Stripped of God from birth, 

Crawling on a toothless wall - 

Question marks on compass. 

Chicks growing colored wings, 

Door...

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Categories: iron curtain, introspection, life, nostalgia, people,
Form: Free verse
Captive
Vision is shadowy; I choke the steering wheel with knuckles turned white
the shifty roads are blanketed with fresh powder, day has fallen into night
a small...

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Categories: iron curtain, fantasy, imagination, car,
Form: Narrative
Schizophrenia
Memories
 become sand full of hourglasses. 
One thousand snowflakes are one thousand dead cats in the Hudson River.
 Memories hurt. 
They are Michael Schofield broken...

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Categories: iron curtain, confusion, introspection, words, me,
Form: Free verse
Distant Things
A Rumble in the Jungle, a Thriller in Manila
Blue suede shoes, Elvis and Priscilla
Old blue eyes, the star of the show
Distant things. Oh so long...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iron curtain, history, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs