After The Storm Hurricane Milton
...They kneel in water that once was their streets,
hands, like small boats, lifting the broken
pieces of each other—what is left
of their homes sway in the wind’s aftermath.
But in the hollows of...
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Categories:
saint petersburg, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Charm of Toksovo
...Toksovo is the place near Saint-Petersburg, Russia
When the Luminary was in the sunset,
On the hill top, in summer, in the old house,
We were drinking usually evening tea -
I was a guest on tha...
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Categories:
saint petersburg, friendship love, house, nature,
Form: Lyric
Irma Sunday Evening
...Irma Sunday Evening
By Franklin Price
9/10/2017 - 6:22PM
For six hours we've been watching
The eye of Irma twitch
As the winds and rains around it
Are making life a *****
Since I last wro...
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Categories:
saint petersburg, rain, storm, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme
The Secret of Total Gentleness and Aggression
...Why people somewhere so kind and gentle
and somewhere not?
Why people in Saint-Petersburg ,
Moskow, Astana, Bishkek
Look so impolite, inhospitable and unfriendly?
Ask about it the happy inhabitant...
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Categories:
saint petersburg, social,
Form: Verse
Winter's Xanadu
...WINTER’S XANADU
Boreal Venice with canals of ice
Built on frozen rock and sand
Of the Pleasure Dome, we have a slice.
Spires of gilt and bridges a thousand
City of gold from Russia’s ...
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Categories:
saint petersburg, urban, city, river,
Form: Sonnet
The Icebreaker Krasin - David and Goliath
...THE ICEBREAKER KRASIN - DAVID AND GOLIATH
Between the docks* for cruise ships and the berths for yachts of pleasure
Lies another ship, not a purposeless cruise craft ...
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Categories:
saint petersburg, historyriver,
Form: Narrative
Neglected Beauty
...NEGLECTED BEAUTY
Beauty-mica granite sidewalks shining
Fontanka and Moika Canals like Venice boreal
Boats flopping, tourist cameras aligning
Gold-domed architecture monumental
Kazan c...
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Categories:
saint petersburg,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)