My Dream Vacation
...Dream vacations, many I had
from Trinidad to Petrograd.
Stood on great pyramids, great walls,
watched dying swans in gilded halls.
Threw a penny in a fountain;
flew around the highest mountain.
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Categories:
petrograd, vacation, war,
Form: Imagism
World War Three
...Putin's just started World War Three
though if anyone had thought to ask me
You could see it coming back in 2008
when he rolled over Georgia, then sat back to wait
And the world stamped a...
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Categories:
petrograd, history, leadership, war, world,
Form: Couplet
Somewhere In the Middle of a Desert
...In the bleached whitish sky
I am flying on a bellied pelican,
contemplating from above
a pastoral landscape
and I’m writing these lines.
Below are small people
on the slopes of a small hill
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Categories:
petrograd, destiny, emotions, inspirational love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
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:
petrograd, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Young Stalin
...A time of revolution...
of a poet was at hand.
Of turbulence and triumph,
independent in a land.
On Golovinsky Prospect
to the main street of Tiflis.
Exploits of Djugashvili...
Tilipuchui Ta...
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Categories:
petrograd, history,
Form: Classicism