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Leningrad

Leningrad...
   You are a city of Romance,
   a place to take a chance.
   Land of golden domes,
  ...

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Categories: leningrad, city, happiness,
Form: Classicism

To One of Many Heroes of Blockade of Leningrad.

Dedicated to memory of my mother-in-law, 

                  ...

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Categories: leningrad, life, peace, people, social,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Icebreaker Krasin - David and Goliath

THE      ICEBREAKER     KRASIN    -     DAVID    AND...

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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...

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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:...

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Categories: leningrad, youth,
Form: Free verse

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...

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Categories: leningrad, love, integrity, , memorial,
Form: Blank 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...

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Categories: leningrad, art, history, nostalgia, places,
Form: Lyric

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 ...

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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,...

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Categories: leningrad, love,
Form: Rhyme

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...

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Categories: leningrad, conflict, death, history, war,
Form: 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...

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Categories: leningrad, death, devotion, history, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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...

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Categories: leningrad, on writing and words,
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...

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Categories: leningrad, conflict, death, evil, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Life is a diary

Life is a diary waiting to be written

Observe
what is obvious
what is hidden
what is experienced
what is felt

A record of life
by day
by week
by year
by any moment

Twelve diary...

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Categories: leningrad, journey, life, visionary, voice,
Form: List