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Gorbachev Poems - Poems about Gorbachev

Premium MemberA Nuclear Future

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   The specter of nuclear war haunts the world again
      not long after we all thought it might end

   As agreements of Reagan and Gorbachev are trashed
      the angst of Krushchev and ...
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Categories: gorbachev, fear, history, war,
Form: Couplet

Tear Down This Wall and Rebuild It Instead

...Tear down this wall

And put an end to this

Cold War

Said the then 

President of the U.S.A

Ronald Reagan 

To the U.S.S.R leader 

Premier Gorbachev 

Only for much later on

On...
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Categories: gorbachev, political,
Form: Free verse



Nato's War

...NATO's war.

It was on a bright day in 1949 the Washington treaty was signed and later called NATO.
This treaty was purely an American undertaken and designed to surround Russia with enemy troops ...
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Categories: gorbachev, age, america, angst, april,
Form: Blank verse

Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories: gorbachev, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPerestroika, a Love Letter

...Perestroika, a love letter


Glasnost beaten by the devil
prison camps revitalized
repression modernized
 	for the new world
	new wars the same young men die
Ukraine's children bleed red

P...
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Categories: gorbachev, america, death, integrity, leadership,
Form: Free verse



Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika

...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories: gorbachev, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOur Walls

...In great sincerity, one president                                                                                                                                     
said to another president,
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Categories: gorbachev, perspective, prison, relationship,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberGorbachev

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Glasnost, unmuted voice, long overdue 
Once Berlin Walls and Iron Curtains fell,
Regime of old school fools he overthrew
Brave Afghan Soviet troops still live to ...
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Categories: gorbachev, death, history,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberRussia's Back and Shootin'

...From Lenin to Stalin
Khrushchev to Gorbachev
The USSR tried to
choke the West off

Now with Vladimir Putin
Russia's back and shootin'
Masters of duplicity
Executions through toxicity




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Categories: gorbachev, history, leadership, violence, world,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnniversary of the Fall of the Wall

...President Reagan's dulcet tones breathed fire and brimstone
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall," demanded he, histrionically
When the wall did us all a favor, complying, falling of its own accord
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Categories: gorbachev, anniversary, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Pantoum

Remembering the 1980s

...Regarding fashion,Punk set out to gauge
The style of hair and clothes which would outrage.
John Lennon's voice was silenced at this time;
Mark Chapman was convicted for the crime.

A technical d...
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Categories: gorbachev, birth, death, fashion, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDecade of the 80's

...I finished high school in the 60's, a decade of 'Change and Revolution'.                                                                                                                      Got marri...
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Categories: gorbachev, america, family, history,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPresidential History Reprise Surprise

...George Washington chopped down a tree as a lad
   Then told his dad that he'd been bad

With the stroke of a pen, Thomas Jefferson kick-started a nation
   Touting revolution every so often with ...
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Categories: gorbachev, america, history,
Form: Couplet

Chernobyl

...Chernobyl.


A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before it b...
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Categories: gorbachev, cry, death, sun, world,
Form: I do not know?

Let's Talk

...we're just talking

you know?

a conversation

you know?

like the one Gorbachev and Reagan had to end the cold war?

now why can't all of humanity have one

to save the human race from extinction?

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Categories: gorbachev, political,
Form: Free verse

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