Wasn't that a day -
Peter and the Wolf
in the Bolshoi Ballet.
Yet, in that regard,
Peter - and a wolf
in a leotard?
From Moscow to Kiev
It is not too far.
Putin wants to be
The new Russian Czar.
The Russian ballet
In Moscow's Bolshoi
Became a death dance
In Putin's war convoy.
Sanctions are sweet bullets
Never punish bad behavior
Always hurt innocent people
Never believe any nation's saviour.
Tolstoy, Gorki and Dostoewsky
Great works they wrote.
Putin's future biography
An odious bloody note.
Rolled slushy snow balls an old hearty boy.
Boy, he played with his gal, a scene so coy;
Never ask me if it's me
Or that sporty gal is she;
In laundry, we blow now soap balls, bolshoi.
Bolshoi, in Russian, means ‘big’, ‘large’
Syllable count: 10/10/7/7/10
Dec. 30, 2020
Winter Snow or Ice Limerick Contest Poetry Contest
Contest sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Ploughing
The farmer has ploughed the land around the almond trees
the earth is rust red I took up a handful it was lumpy, full
of dead plants and still warm from the sun.
A breeze was blowing shaking dust of trees and upending
parasols in gardens of those who do not till this land, but
want to be a part of the rustic idyll, tend rose bushes with
gloved hands to avoid callouses on hands used to type on
a word processor, where they try and fail to share the peace
they have found among small farmers travail.
I have the camera with me, but use it not how does
one shoot a picture of the wind or branches of a tree
moving rhythmically as the second dancer at a Bolshoi
performance attended by the prime minister.
Think I will leave the wind to a painter friend of mine.
once a young student from gilroy
wished to marry a tomboy
parents protested
had him arrested
forced him to join the bolshoi.
Bowled over completely
By the sight of flowers
Beside the babbling brook
Breathtakingly adorned
Balancing on tiptoes
Before my eyes, poised like
Bolshoi ballerinas.
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Contest: Pleiades- B
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Placed 2nd
15th August, 2016
King Vlad the Greatest
Supremus-Dictatoris
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Bamboozler-Provocateur
Arrogance absolute.
Master of Malarkey
Bolshoi-Apparatchik
Mask of a Monster
Hooliganism to boot.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
August 20, 2015 (Double Dactyl)
I wonder what ether infuses consciousness
Why this delirium after last night’s show?
What’s in a name?
Oh how I’d watched her
Every skillful every reckless change of face
Every dancing change of pace
Her outrageous fling of clothes
from Flatbush
to Paris
Dominating every set of scrambled spangled disarray
She might have jigged the crown at old Bolshoi
No one would be aware
No one would care
Posy
Wild flower
All alone
I wonder at the indelible ghostly mix
In that face
Such delicacy
a breeze-filtered smoke
clouding my eyes
Or is it all in a name
Posy?
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