Long Crimea Poems

During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
Tomorrow I'd...

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Wishing for 1984

'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance 
is Strength Big Brother…'

is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility, but wait everything goes and now we are on to...

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NO COMPROMISE

If we were to take just three countries, Afghanistan, Syria, and now Ukraine, where there is still an answer for Syria, and Ukraine 

First Afghanistan to which at the moment is it to late,...

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War used to be some other place
Out of sight and mind;
But now we see on our tv
The worst of humankind.

An army has just marched across
Another country’s border,
Wreaking murder, unprovoked,
And violent disorder.

Are we so blind? We...

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Britain used to war with France and then the USA, 
Allied with the Russian keeping Napoleon at bay 
2 wars fought in 1812 Europe and North America 
all in all no one did better, all...

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Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo

My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
needed between the ailing ballot box,
sho’ ain’t Louisiana Purchase forthcoming

Lady Liberty is bowing...

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Russia, my lovely

Why do I remember this now on a Christmas day 
galley boy on a tank ship that was old in 1956
as the youngest of the crew of mostly middle-aged men
it is safe to...

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On the twenty fourth of February in twenty twenty two
Russia invaded Ukraine and fierce fighting did ensue 
Vladimir Putin it seems, wants to restore the iron curtain
And sadly he will succeed, of that it looks...

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Adventure Days
They say a cornered man will fight till the end
For simply has nothing to lose
Except his life when the cards are revealed
The dice is rolled balls to the wall kaput
You know what I mean...

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The augury of him in Crimea was so
That Ekaterina said she was tired of sandwiches
But I did have black tea, black Latvian bread with her black Ikra near Black Sea
Hundreds of kilometres from Kiev and...

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Sonnet: The Ruins of Balaclava
by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, barren Crimean land, these dreary shades
of castles?once your indisputable pride?
are now where ghostly owls and lizards hide
as blackguards arm themselves for nightly...

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Staring at the stubborn facts
I stand face to face with a sneering fate
Legalized pot. Transitive 
Bondage sold as liberty
Man made destructive phase
Don't lie to us as if we're back at puberty

I see you Bobojan, hiding...

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FIGHTING FOR REGIONS PRO-RUSSIAN
 
Putin claims he will have victory, in a few days, or a few weeks
So I worry about Ukrainians soldiers trapped within a fish bowl
Kharkiv, down to Kherson maybe trapped by the...

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two islands and dynamite 
 
There are two islands in the stream, one is big  
and called the new island the other is small and  
called the old island, the pair is linked...

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Putin's just started World War Three
  though if anyone had thought to ask me

You could see it coming back in 2008
  when he rolled over Georgia, then sat back to wait

And the world...

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Let Me See if I Have This Right

Let me see if I have this right
And it’s not just an oversight
Ukraine buys its energy
From Russia cause it has to be
Russia gets most revenue
From selling gas to...

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How many Friends Have You Now?

How many friends have you now?
How many write you everyday
Say they are sorry and their nation will pay?
How many have apologised?
How many have realised?
How their relatives have taken part?
Shot your...

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The Russians are coming

Skiers complain it is too cold, most of them are from the cold country
is the frost in China different than say, Scandinavia?
A newspaper gleefully telling us there fewer spectators this time
then in...

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Dense With No Common Sense

Boy her buttocks were really a beauty
Half crazy and called her Totty Fruity
Which half it was never would knew 
Until War of Crimea had been through.

War was fairly fought for criminy's...

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The Western world will breathe easier when Kim Jong Un
starts the denuclearization of North Korea.
And the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin gives
Ukraine back its lost peninsula of Crimea.

There will be celebrations worldwide when Israel
and Palestine stop...

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When entering negotiations with a criminal mastermind
Who just happens to be a dictator, cruel and unkind
   of a country with a long record of opposing freedom
   and crushing opponents to death...

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Changing Map 
Europe is like a carpet made of left over textile and it is quite malleable 
and can be changed shortened or made bigger. I used to know Crimea 
as a part of the...

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I sense a feel of panic in the air
As if the Ark is not quite waterproof
I wonder if we’d welcome Tony Blair

To the poor this life was rarely fair
But now it seems unreal, is it...

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Give me Greenland, make it mine,
Let me buy it just in time,
For Thanksgiving so we can
Induct these folks into our clan.

Why waste time debating ‘why’
This proposal shouldn’t fly,
Surely Denmark needs the cash
Here’s your chance if...

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When the imperial waves
came rushing in,
century after century upon 
kneel capitulation
The khanate carnage
was pale tears
in a vassal vale devastating —
What a Caucasus burial field

O how those royal tributaries
ever thus did yield!

From Alupka to Perekop,
the blue...

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