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Nabokov Poems - Poems about Nabokov


Premium Member Dandelion Suns to Moons
...‘Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.’ – Vladimir Nabokov The humble dandelion Earth bequeaths. Oh, golden bloom which ancient lore bequeaths that fortune ‘s......

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Categories: nabokov, flower, life, metaphor, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......

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Categories: nabokov, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List



Premium Member Between the Lines
..."And if my private universe scans right, // So does the verse of galaxies divine ..." - from the poem "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov. In Wonderland, with Alice I would walk and speak wi......

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Categories: nabokov, books, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Star Spangled Banter
...The Private caressed his balls out of action during the short ceasefire the Army had scanned him for testosterone because they needed a killer He bit into a Milky Way as he cradled his crotch t......

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Categories: nabokov, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mortal Mirror
...you were a false blue sky, reflected - I, a sparrow winging to love too late realized - your heart, the cold, hard window ... to explain the truth. ~ 2nd Place ~ in t......

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Categories: nabokov, analogy, love, metaphor, romance,
Form: Monoku



Malicious Opacity
...“LIKE A MADMAN THINKS HE'S GOD, WE THINK WE'RE MORTAL”. Delaland, Speech on Shadows Transparency is the key to the social harmony. Transparent people pass through each other like light th......

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Categories: nabokov, death, life, poets,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Youth, Time, Night Sky and Heaven's Blessed Voice, Second Poets Tribute Series, Vladimir Nabokov
...Youth, Time, Night Sky And Heaven's Blessed Voice As I lay me down in lush verdant grass Gazing into night sky as Heavens pass Twinkling stars, to an old grievous soul speak "Be of stout heart,......

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Categories: nabokov, appreciation, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Forbidden Fruits
...oh my big cousin a dusk gaze beamy lashes a little temper how foggy you are forbidden fruits of knowledge through bathroom keyhole once she spanked the boy but punishment was more like a ......

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Categories: nabokov, cousin,
Form: Haiku
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...Oh, how high your brow ripe with laurus ascends above the literary world! Your multilingual bottomless thesaurus is full of diamonds, emeralds and gold. I'm sorting through these treasures in t......

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Categories: nabokov, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Autumn By Vladimir Nabokov
...Gold is covering emerald leaves, I can see cloudy heaven is numb, Asters, dahlias blooms among grieves like a garland they cannot succumb. Little rain is annoying sometimes, It is hanging like......

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Categories: nabokov, autumn, emotions, feelings, kiss,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Lolita's Conceit
...Lolita’s Conceit Obsession defined Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov An accursed passion Love’s true abomination. Literary allusion Tintinnabulation Sounding moral oblivion God’s sure cond......

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Categories: nabokov, allusion, angst, betrayal, child
Form: Double Dactyl
Rhymed Review On Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov
...In truth Clare Quilty Was clearly guilty, While humble Humbert Humbert Was fervently pervert. The issue to talk of What told us Nabokov ?......

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Categories: nabokov, books,
Form: Rhyme
Russian Books
...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 ......

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Categories: nabokov, allegory, friendship, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse

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