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Perestroika Poems - Poems about Perestroika


Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...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 squ......

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Categories: perestroika, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Perestroika, a Love Letter
...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 P......

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Categories: perestroika, america, death, integrity, leadership,
Form: Free verse



Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...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 squ......

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Categories: perestroika, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What About China
...What about China? When they compel you to stay home, imposing cloaks on nature's beauty as a fellow friend becomes a foe and the media unhorsed propaganda Can we all all ask what about chin......

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Categories: perestroika, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
I-N-D-I-A
...india first,india lasts india first,india lasts arab spring revolution china tiananmen square uprising russia perestroika collapse world's most time-tested country india india first,india lasts......

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Categories: perestroika, celebration, freedom, hindi, independence
Form: Sonnet



Marxism For Dummies 14
...Though Canton claims it’s communist, it’s not. Beijing, like Belarus, breeds oligarchs. There’s nobody alive who’s heard of Marx: a rickshaw ride’s the only kind of trot. Seek Mensheviks in Min......

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Categories: perestroika, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Build Your First Brick
...trouble then you must build your first brick blow hard to make your bubble That first step's so important to go forward at that time once it's taken you're on move life's hit your peak in your prime (I have written this poem inspired by the word "perestroika". The best translation from Russian I can come up with is "rebuilding", but it is not quite so, the word means tearing down for the purpose of building better.)......

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Categories: perestroika, change, life, work,
Form: Rhyme
Perestroika
...“Who are you going to call for; what do you have to say?” ~ R.E.M., “Good Advices” from the album Fables of the Reconstruction (1985) It’s really for the best you know Those apples we......

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Categories: perestroika, conflict, food, freedom, home,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things