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Iron Curtain Poems - Poems about Iron Curtain

Back in the USSR
...June 21, 2025 For the Beatles 'Lay it to Me' song Contest by Charles Messina The old iron curtain came down But soon a clown reclaimed the crown Ruthless and hollow-souled he rose Now a fo......

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Categories: iron curtain, conflict, history, international, pain,
Form: Lay
A Deer Stalks
... Night stampedes wind-horses. I edgily negotiate the sharp corners of swerving shadows. The hind hoof of a doe slaps the reflection of my startled face, the Chevy twitches, plows on -......

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Categories: iron curtain, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Angler
...I am an Angler. I sit in the dark. The walls suffocate me with my agitation. I am an Angler. I am not like you. I am from the depths of the ocean. I am an Angler. Predators may eat me alive.......

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Categories: iron curtain, analogy, animal, fish, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom falling
...First Russia fell, a vast land, Nine time zones, Stalin took command. Millions of Russians died due to his rule But Russians don't learn that fact in school. FDR called him "Uncle Joe," Mistoo......

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Categories: iron curtain, africa, christian, freedom, jewish,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member It’s Coming
...Computers computing have pinpointed here This planet, it seems, has something to fear I look to the skies and they’re beautiful…… now The stars are quite static, yet I mop my brow A spacecraft ......

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Categories: iron curtain, angst, fear, space,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge
...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge, Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended. Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse Te......

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Categories: iron curtain, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge
...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge, Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended. Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse Te......

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Categories: iron curtain, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Momentary Blast
...Invigorating rock and roll shakes the morning air Bandsmen play Comanche, on the marble stairs People that I used to know, tap their feet and smile Iron curtain rusty folds melt down for a while ......

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Categories: iron curtain, memory, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member DON'T FORGET UKRAINE?
... Between an unjust war or peace, which would you choose? Ukraine had no choice so we must ensure they don't lose Russian thugs invaded Ukraine to reinstate the Iron Curtain And this is only ......

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Categories: iron curtain, conflict, death, war,
Form: Rhyme
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: iron curtain, political,
Form: Free verse
1940 To 1949
...I am the decade of nuclear Reaction. I am the Japanese surrender Reads the caption. I am the Iron Curtain speech By Winston Churchill. I am Congress passes The G.I. Bill. ......

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Categories: iron curtain, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clerihew Abakaus
...Magadalene Abakaus be quite certain lived life behind the Iron curtain Notwithstanding& for her part created her much beloved fibre art......

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Categories: iron curtain, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Russian Evil Will Thrive If Good Men Do Nothing
...The west went in guns blazing to help their fellow man In Syria against the Islamic State and in Iraq and Afghanistan They brought an end to a campaign of terror and a killing spree And made t......

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Categories: iron curtain, conflict, death, war, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Missile Over Kyiv
...There's a trail in the sky, licked by the moon, like blood vessel passing the blue, thin lines on the horizon, in frontier dust, splitting the land with fleeting aversions. In a moment of des......

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Categories: iron curtain, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ares
...An atrocity loose Across state of Ukraine Annexation Russian Arms raised in defiance Against staggering odds An iron curtain drops Agamemnon awaits......

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Categories: iron curtain, war,
Form: Pleiades

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