Best St. Petersburg Poems

SAVIOUR CHURCH,  GRIBOYEDOVA  CANAL,  ST.  PETERSBURG

In defiance of its Soviet museum-death
Reflected in water moved by God’s breath
The five-domed Saviour church gives
Hope, for its bulbous gold dome yet lives


Silent spheres sing of new life glowing
With gold-edged scales reflecting, showing
In watery  ...

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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.
In the Smolny Cathedral,
the bells whisper.
On the Gulf, calm and silence prevails.
I see unearthly...

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SEPTEMBER   SUNSET    OVER     ST.  PETERSBURG


Final fling  of color and movement from the sun
Celebration of  life  before it’s   done.
Bits and pieces  of beauty  criss-crossed
And all is higgledy,  ...

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ST.   PETERSBURG   IN   JANUARY



Frozen stillness of canals:
Venice    in   aspic.

Golden-domed church......
Heaven’s    bulbs    auric.

Palaces everywhere  -
History   majestic....

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In June in the St.Petersburg the «White Night» is the all-night twilight because 
the sun is only 8 or 10 degrees below the horizon in the middle of the night. The 
sky doesn’t get at all dark.

During of it all city is very beautiful and...

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How lovely night St. Petersburg! 

Nevsky Prospekt  Is still 

one from the most beautiful views in the world, 

With his color fires. 

Through 300 years,

Through many, many days.

The silhouettes of bridges 

And ancient lanterns still – are fine!

Here the charming old lattice keeps 

Old...

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