A Nuclear Future
...
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
Perestroika, 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
Our Walls
...In great sincerity, one president
said to another president,
".....
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Categories:
gorbachev, perspective, prison, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Gorbachev
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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
Russia'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
Anniversary 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
Decade 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
Presidential 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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