Best Leningrad Poems
The Icebreaker Krasin - David and Goliath
...THE ICEBREAKER KRASIN - DAVID AND GOLIATH
Between the docks* for cruise ships and the berths for yachts of pleasure
Lies another ship, not a purposeless cruise craft ......
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Categories:
leningrad, historyriver,
Form:
Narrative
The Portrait of Simon Gelman
...Adorning the walls at Brigham and Women's
Head on his hand quite comfortably resting
The subject distinctive in his smiling position
Inspires the asking who is this physician
Over his shoulder ......
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Categories:
leningrad, people,
Form:
Rhyme
The Best: Brilliant, Beautiful and Young
...The huddled elite of Europe were in an unprepossessing state
as pouring rain was damping their hopes for their future reign.
These were the best: brilliant, beautiful and young that we oldies
c......
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Categories:
leningrad, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Brilliant St. Petersburg
...Ah, what beauty around!
This day began deliberately.
Even the sky and river Neva have a same a blue colour.
Between them domes fly,
and a thin steeple rises
with a little gold ship at the top.
......
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Categories:
leningrad, art, history, nostalgia, places,
Form:
Lyric
Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 1
...The ride to the country is uneventful
Except that I feel a little like
A man riding inside a cannon ball.
Yuliya's father Igor drives
I'm also up front (the honored guest)
While Yuliya,......
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Categories:
leningrad, love, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Blank verse
Leningrad
...Leningrad...
You are a city of Romance,
a place to take a chance.
Land of golden domes,
far away from home.
A city filled with fountains,
in a dream...
beyond the mount......
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Categories:
leningrad, city, happiness,
Form:
Classicism
Under Hero City
...UNDER HERO CITY
Now bravely the beloved general
Leaves the world of parade and medal.
Manoeuvres over, he does not stay
In night’s Volkovskoye - ***
But in my heart’s day.
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Categories:
leningrad, me, hero, me,
Form:
Quintilla
Traveling To Yuliya
...What a delight to realize,
While on my way to Leningrad,
You've given me my first 'White Night' -
A day stretched out before my eyes,
A night that won't exist for me,
As 'out of time' as lov......
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Categories:
leningrad, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Venetian Blinds
...I wonder if the homes in Venice
Have Venetian blinds;
Or if their window panes are topped
With shades of different kinds?
Are English muffins eaten
By the British with their tea?
Would Parisians rec......
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Categories:
leningrad, on writing and words,
Form:
Rhyme
To One of Many Heroes of Blockade of Leningrad.
...Dedicated to memory of my mother-in-law,
Nina Mihalova
Forgive me, please.
I speak these words too late.
You have been long already in the other world,
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Categories:
leningrad, life, peace, people, social,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Murder
...A man lies dying, a victim of a cause
his name not important, nor the time of his fall
Impaled in Romania, or crucified for the glory of Rome
cut are the sinews of conscience, dangling from a soul......
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Categories:
leningrad, death, devotion, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sent
...Sent
Sent out in our steel coffins to hunt enemy ships now the siege of Leningrad is broken, into the Baltic for some payback. Doing our duty for the Motherland in the Great Patriotic War, against t......
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Categories:
leningrad, conflict, death, history, war,
Form:
Verse
More Equal
...Just because we can’t concur
Doesn’t mean we can’t confer
Yes, the world is in a mess
But that don’t make me Rudolph Hess
They state that soon in every street
There’ll be the stomp of booted ......
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Categories:
leningrad, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Quiet Despair
...Quiet Despair
In a besieged town
In Syria
Snow falls
People starves
Children die
We are powerless
Against
Those who are
Wrong
And those who are right
Snow falls
Silently on
Quiet......
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Categories:
leningrad, abuse,
Form:
Chastushka
Ukraine, Dare We Compare
...“Ukraine, Dare We Compare”
Dare we compare?
Does history tell?
Must we remind those
Who reek of Hell?
900 days----
The siege of Leningrad,
Over 1.5 million starved, frozen or killed.
......
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Categories:
leningrad, conflict, death, evil, freedom,
Form:
Free verse