Rasputin
Dark, Evil
Threatening, Deceiving, Plotting
Enemy, Sorcerer, Cambion, Hero
Guiding, Protecting, Reassuring
Good, Bright
Hellboy
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Categories:
rasputin, appreciation,
Form: Diamante
Johny johny johny
Mat karyo anhoni
Neither this cricket
Nor you dhoni
Johny johny johny...
After failing to become a monk,
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin became a wanderer.
Categories:
rasputin, atheist, black love, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
A mysterious guy
who was devilishly gifted
wore a healer's dress
like a clergyman
kind of wolf in sheep's clothing
but his eyes bared another ego
he crept into women's hearts
and strangled their resistance
with fervent thrusts
untill the souls were slashed
a cemetry of trophies
he bent men's iron will
and got what he wanted
and finally his manhood
made the queen whisper
his wishes to her husband
he changed the course of
country's destiny.
Categories:
rasputin, history,
Form: Free verse
When they disinterred his corpus
they kicked up quite a sizeable rumpus.
for they found no slight trace of toxin
in what remained of Rasputin.
His end must have been gory,
but this news from the grave makes me sad
not so much on account of the madman
as the disproof of his end-of-life story.
Categories:
rasputin, death, gothic, sad,
Form: I do not know?
A Russian Mystic Outré
Mystical-Strannik
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
A charlatan to many
A prophet to some.
His hypnotic effect
Incomprehensible
His eyes uncanny
A saint to none.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 18, 2018 (Double Dactyl)
Categories:
rasputin, allegory, allusion, crazy, dark,
Form: Double Dactyl
Rasputin, known as the Russian mad monk,
Was wandering through the abbey quite drunk,
He was caught somewhat unawares
By a descending flight of stairs,
His long cloak causing an ecclesiastical slump.
Categories:
rasputin, funny,
Form: Limerick
These are very bad times for our nation.
We are in a very dire situation.
Our tsar is not in his palace anymore,
since our country is embroiled in a war.
The tsar is supervising the front line armament.
In St. Petersburg, a mad man is heading our government.
The tsarina is very difficult to convince
since Rasputin has hypnotic power over the prince.
We must come to the aid of Mother Russia.
Let’s murder that little monkey from Siberia.
Categories:
rasputin, history,
Form: Rhyme
There once was a sage man named Rasputin,
With filthy beards, and wore cross made of tin.
While preaching his holy crafts,
He met the queen and her staffs.
He slept with them that got him in a bin.
Categories:
rasputin, funny, history, life, people,
Form: Limerick