Romania, 1990
...I never talked about the rooms
of orphans languishing in beds -
still corridors, like wombs,
that darkened pictures in our heads,
escorting us through tombs.
No unseeing their hopeless eyes,
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Categories:
ceausescu, baby, children, memory,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Promoters of Hate
...Many dictators come to a well-deserved fate
Brutally assassinated or dying at their own hands,
Consider these more recent promoters of hate
In third world countries and distant foreign...
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Categories:
ceausescu, anti bullying, death, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Histofruitsemacea
...and the taste of unknown fruits
the rough-skinned oblong bud
the smooth texture of the pyramidal shell?
now without a palate like a dead Pallas
or like all dead things
who did not absorb the ...
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Categories:
ceausescu, memory,
Form: Free verse
Leap of History
...Nicolae Ceausescu
Blood on morning dew
Severed neck for fascist crimes
As justice rings in freedom’s chimes
24th January...
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Categories:
ceausescu, judgement,
Form: Clerihew
Ceausescu
...Old man, I resemble you in inversions
With your palace plucked from
A ninth cloud and dragged as
An infant's relentless screech
Crying inevitably for attention
And contributing nothing save slav...
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Categories:
ceausescu,
Form: Free verse
Romanus " Romania "
...Romanus country
Romania to us
Iron curtain frontier
Dismantled by fuss
Like us all invaded
But by Goths and the Huns
Typical past history
Populations on the run
The Ottoman Empire, absorbe...
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Categories:
ceausescu, history, life, loss, peace,
Form: Rhyme