Leningrad Poems

More Equal

...Just because we can’t concur
Doesn’t mean we can’t confer 
Yes, the world is in a mess
But that don’t make me Rudolph Hess

They state that soon in every street
There’ll be the stomp of booted ...

Barbarossa II

...As Barbarossa roars into the East.
its southern barb cut swiftly to the core.
And as it raged the slaughtering increased,
consuming any force that stood before.
His swift barrage devoured the ran...

Barbarossa III

...A new command would counter their attack
to stay the storm that harkens at your door.
‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack
for nothing dared defy the wolves before. 
And though his pack c...

Life is a diary

...Life is a diary waiting to be written

Observe
what is obvious
what is hidden
what is experienced
what is felt

A record of life
by day
by week
by year
by any moment

Twelve diary disci...

Ukraine, Dare We Compare

...“Ukraine, Dare We Compare”

Dare we compare?
Does history tell?
Must we remind those 
Who reek of Hell?

900 days---- 

The siege of Leningrad,
Over 1.5 million starved, frozen or killed.
...

The Portrait of Simon Gelman

...Adorning the walls at Brigham and Women's
Head on his hand quite comfortably resting
The subject distinctive in his smiling position
Inspires the asking who is this physician

Over his shoulder ...

Quiet Despair

...Quiet Despair 

In a besieged town
In Syria
Snow falls 
People starves
Children die 
We are powerless 
 Against
Those who are 
Wrong
And those who are right
Snow falls
Silently on
Quiet...

Sent

...Sent
Sent out in our steel coffins to hunt enemy ships now the siege of Leningrad is broken, into the Baltic for some payback. Doing our duty for the Motherland in the Great Patriotic War, against t...

Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 1

...The ride to the country is uneventful
Except that I feel a little like
A man riding inside a cannon ball.
Yuliya's father Igor drives
I'm also up front (the honored guest)         
While Yuliya,...

Traveling To Yuliya

...What a delight to realize, 
While on my way to Leningrad, 
You've given me my first 'White Night' -
A day stretched out before my eyes, 
A night that won't exist for me, 
As 'out of time' as lov...

The Best: Brilliant, Beautiful and Young

...The huddled elite of Europe were in an unprepossessing state 

as pouring rain was damping their hopes for their future reign. 

These were the best: brilliant, beautiful and young that we oldies 

c...

Leningrad

...Leningrad...
   You are a city of Romance,
   a place to take a chance.
   Land of golden domes,
   far away from home.

   A city filled with fountains, 
   in a dream...
   beyond the mount...

Venetian Blinds

...I wonder if the homes in Venice
Have Venetian blinds;
Or if their window panes are topped
With shades of different kinds?

Are English muffins eaten
By the British with their tea?
Would Parisians rec...

The Icebreaker Krasin - David and Goliath

...THE      ICEBREAKER     KRASIN    -     DAVID    AND   GOLIATH



Between the docks* for   cruise ships and the berths for yachts of pleasure
Lies another ship,  not a purposeless cruise  craft ...

Under Hero City

...UNDER  HERO  CITY


Now  bravely  the beloved general
Leaves  the world of parade and medal.
Manoeuvres over,  he does not stay
In   night’s  Volkovskoye   -     ***
But in my heart’s day.

...

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