Pavel Poems

Farewell to 2024

...An American perspective on domestic and world events, in no particular order

SCOTUS rules that Trump’s immune
China flies the spy balloon
Starship booster landing glee
J. Assange is walking fre...

Categories: pavel, humanity, new year, planet,
Form: Rhyme

A Rispetto of the Ghetto

...Have you read Pavel Friedmann's "The Butterfly"?
I discovered it in a Children's poem book
he only rhymes with the words "high" and "goodbye"
its imagery gives the ghetto a close look

Only dand...

Categories: pavel, butterfly, cry, flower, holocaust,
Form: Rispetto

Emagi Friedmann the Butterfly

...emagi=  reverse ekphrasis

 PAVEL FRIEDMANN: The Butterfly


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Categories: pavel, analogy, butterfly,
Form: Shape

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Charming Patterns

...Charming Patterns

An eyelet wheel models medieval embroidery
Aromatic, ornamental garden ballet steps for lovers  
Strolling in stately patterns of noble estate
Savory’s romance looping through...

Categories: pavel, garden, love,
Form: Free verse

Liberty Bow Face

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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
ne...

Categories: pavel, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Why Does the Wind

...Why does the wind spin in the hollows
and makes the leaves and powder fly,
whereas the ships lie in calm waters,
a breeze is their best desire?
Why from dark rocks, past a white tower
an eagle s...

Categories: pavel, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet

Dambu Lui Gaf

...Go to Dambu Lui Gaf, I told them
      Climb some hills and lose some breath
     Lie at a shrine on wet grass, I told them
        The earth is not fully peopled yet
      And so many now are yo...

Categories: pavel, death, love, warold, old,
Form: Lyric

Dambu Lui Gaf

...Go to Dambu Lui Gaf, I told them
    Climb some hills and lose some breath.
    Lie in a shrine, on wet grass, I told them
        The earth is not fully peopled yet ...
     And so many now are ...

Categories: pavel, warold, old,
Form: Quatrain

No Butterflies In the Ghetto

...six million stones
a railroad car streaked red
a thousand astrodomes
swollen with dead children
the population of houston
dallas wiped out

ugly striped prison uniforms
signifying captures an...

Categories: pavel, death, family, history, political,
Form: Free verse