Best Stalingrad Poems

the soldier.  the pretty city girl.

in a room of rust and patterned blood
cover
ash all in the riven air
ash of city, ash of sacrifice, ash...

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Stalingrad
During moments I yearned for forests grown for me alone,
Caressing them in a dream,
I could sense the throbbing of the heart 
Hidden beneath my ribs...

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Stalingrad 1942
City surrounded
Bloodied human zoo
 
Shattered buildings
Architecture ruin
Walls of peace
Blasted and strewn
 
In the rubble he crawls
Suited white
Background blend
Silent
 
For hours he lies
Corpse still
Eyes in...

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Snow fell upon the marble eyes of the dead,
And the magpies pecked the buttons on the coats,
Drawn by the gleam of dulling brass attract,
As the...

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It comes every once so often
Seeking the searing cry of pain
With the persistence of starving men
     It finds the throne to...

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The Champion

Controlled by remote desires  I trip the laurel fuse of longing ancestry
My Mom had been chosen to compete diving from the high platform...

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the bombs 
the guns 
the blood shed
no humanity done
all is lost
under the strick and pain
of all the bombs 
every day 
WW1 WW2 
the Cold War...

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Led down from the tower
Head high and hands bound
Blindfold declined against the wall
Black square pinned to his heart
His eyes afire and shining
And he sang...

He sang...

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I have found my voice

at humanity’s eleventh hour

I have found my voice because

I called upon humanity’s wisdom

and asked if I can help to deliver

to you

some...

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Putin's just started World War Three
  though if anyone had thought to ask me

You could see it coming back in 2008
  when he...

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Rile up the rifling rowdies
at the Red River rawhide rally
A new Mustang Sally came rip-roaring muscling in
from the lower Staten Island end of Stalingrad
Treachery forged...

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twiglets embrace as thorns and flowers

                   ...

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Operation Barbarossa 
the panzers start to roll,
Breaking out from Poland’s Baltic,
towards Sevastopol, 
Ten million soldiers strong,
go goose-stepping east,
The Fuhrer’s Wehrmacht, 
alongside his waffen SS elite.

No...

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He had taken the last train to Stalingrad. ´Join the Army and see the World´. 

The track of events unfolded when the tank chains came...

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Rigor mortis shivered in frozen soil

Four trumpeters bid a farewell to arms

The flag was draped around the coffin

Speeches salutes medals on uniforms

The pastor clicked his...

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