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Best Soviet Union Poems


To Holocaust Survivors In the Former Soviet Union
You worked so hard but just exist.
Your high school grad dates you just missed,
evacuated from Ukraine.

In Russia’s army to resist,
you fought the tyrant Hitler’s reign.
You worked so hard but just exist

on meager pensions. You subsist
by choosing food or meds, that’s plain.
No other kinfolks to assist

in...

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Categories: soviet union, discrimination, grandfather, grandmother, hate,
Form: Villanelle
The Old Soviet Union
The old soviet-union 

It must have been winter when the old tank skip
Sailed through the Dardanelles into the Black sea
Which was full of ice flakes.

The ship was loading oil in a town I have forgotten
The name of, but I do remember it was sparse 
On-street...

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Categories: soviet union, best friend, blessing, books,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things