Long Gorbachev Poems

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 blows.


Evacuate Pripyat, the employee’s town,
The town of 35000; first...

Read More

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 squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the...

Read More

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 squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the...

Read More

The crumbling down of the Berlin Wall finally 
ended the Cold War as a defiant Reagan challenged
Gorbachev as his famous words were spoken mightily, 
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear it down!"...And he shouted them with rage, 
while...

Read More

In great sincerity, one president                              ...

Read More

I finished high school in the 60's, a decade of 'Change and Revolution'.                      ...

Read More

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...

Read More

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
Thirty years removed, the once impenetrable barrier...

Read More

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 and sow distrust...

Read More

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 development unfurled
Which launched the first PC into...

Read More

The GDR put up a wall
in ‘61 because
they wanted West Berlin kept out.
A wall of shame it was!

In fact, the West more easily
could travel all about
while Eastern Germans were the ones
from freedom routes locked out....

Read More

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

Once the Iron Curtain

Had eventually gone

Mr Putin

Said

And rebuild...

Read More

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

Putin's delusions
unraveled Russian humanity

He could suffer no longer
he sang songs at the...

Read More