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Best Octosyllabic Poems


Back in the USSR
June 21, 2025

For the Beatles 'Lay it to Me' song Contest by Charles Messina


The old iron curtain came down
But soon a clown reclaimed the crown
Ruthless and hollow-souled he rose
Now a foul Soviet wind blows
From the east it battered Ukraine
Spreading such cruel and endless pain
The past...

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Categories: octosyllabic, conflict, history, international, pain,
Form: Lay

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