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Cossacks Poems - Poems about Cossacks


Butterfly Effects
...Last night a powerful force was juggled between ocean-going butterflies. A little ripple in Bermuda blew its lid in Indonesia. People died and survived to be recalled by the living in the mornin......

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Categories: cossacks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Sycophant
...Only sack scratcher one who harasses cossacks It sucks and tiresome........

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Categories: cossacks, allegory, allusion, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member He Sits Astride a Horse
...Bogdan Chmielnicki sits astride a horse A magnificent statue in Central Kiev To a monumental Ukrainian figure A George Washtington-style liberator He took it to the Poles in the 1600's A lone ......

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Categories: cossacks, celebration, dark, hero, history,
Form: Free verse
Listening To Russian Poetry
...The odor of turnips, of seasoned cabbage water - borscht flushed through musing kidneys. Listening to Zhukovsky, Vysotsky, Tyutchev, not comprehending a word of it. Working my way backward th......

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Categories: cossacks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Poetry On a Lower East Side Morning
...Awakening from "Slavery in Egypt" I head downstairs to check my e - mail and eat a free breakfast My stomach satisfied I pick up a pen and write an ode Poetry grows on the fabled Lower East ......

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Categories: cossacks, america, grandmother,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Limerick: No Cossacks Charge Down Arc De Triomphe
...Limerick: No Cossacks charge down Arc de Triomphe No Cossacks charge down Arc de Triomphe Champs Elysée hourra! in triumph For World Ruler no less Come to check French prowess World rivets ......

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Categories: cossacks, america, farewell, french, military,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Till Ragnorak Comes
...From Valhalla’s fortress of spears and shields, Valkyrie riders make their daily runs… Crossing Bifrost to Midgard’s battlefields, Harvesting warriors till Ragnorak comes. Flying from Valhal......

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Categories: cossacks, death, mythology, religion, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Alexander the Tsar of France
...Alexander a Tsar of ideals A man of heart and noble thought His mentor, Swiss, Monsieur La Harpe From childhood, molded to play histories part He built his armies, to defend his land His imperial cr......

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Categories: cossacks, adventure, history,
Form: Light Verse
Catherine the Great
...A czarina whose needs couldn’t wait. Rumored to have a private stable, with horses….if her Cossacks weren’t able. For the clerihew 2 contest......

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Categories: cossacks, funny, history,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihews Fini
...PEE WEE HERMAN Thought cops wouldn’t determine, he put himself in that popcorn box. Maybe he should have used his socks. HOWARD HUGHES A world famous recluse. Millions for planes, women and c......

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Categories: cossacks, funny, life, people,
Form: Clerihew

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