Long Zhivago Poems

On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...

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Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...

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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)       ...

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"The Silkworm’s Birthday"





Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast 
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in a laugh, no bitter pill
magic never rests, like a crystal...

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Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father’s 50th floor study watching New York City. It’s a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city...

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Every time I get happy
the Nana-Hex 
comes through.
A dog's canines 
change into chainsaws,
toothpicks turn into knives,
coral reefs diverge into dirty sponges,
a sandcastle into a mausoleum,
a soldier-ant burrows deeper
into my borrowed grave,
reveille trumpets tap 
a tip-toed...

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Black Sheep 

Her beleaguered parents, had it 
with her.
That daughter and her mouth,
forever causing a mighty stir!
They went to downtown
Chicago,
To see Dr.Zhivago, hoping this 
might quiet her.
But no, in their daughter, it was 
more like...

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Through The Keyhole of Time

The houses were made of old timber, like a Russian village 
on the endless steppe - maybe I had Dr Zhivago on my mind. 
But where was Lara? I was in...

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LONELINESS, LONELY AND MUSIC 

The pianissimo makes the violins softly cry, 
the cellos sympathize with the sadness of the theme Barber’s Platoon 
the sublime adagio quells the overwhelmed heart
sending vibrations moaning through my body 

I’ve...

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Dr Zhivago is not Putin 
Nature yes, it does its own thing it will never be tamed and behave 
in a predictable way. Outside mild rain falls there is no wind and 
the weather is...

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Dr. Zhivago
        
                        Dr. Zhivago...

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Dr. Zhivago, 12 angry men  Valdez is coming Clear and Present danger Scent of a woman Armageddon Medicine Man

Top Gun the ninth gate Dangerous minds, Milk money wings of the dove
Cider house rules and...

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From Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment,
to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, not to mention
Nabokov, Chechov and of course Zhivago, 
your books have lined my shelves.  As a boy,
I lived inside and tried to find myself.

As a man...

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After Seeing Dr. Zhivago
Gawaine Caldwater Ross

The tragedy of human life
Can be condensed into some lines
Which, by the very barest bones
Convey the happiness and dreams of youth:
The grand adventure you would take,
The friends who come and...

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