Short Iron Curtain Poems
Short Iron Curtain Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Iron Curtain by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Iron Curtain by length and keyword.
Curtain Call
Crushing humidity
Like an iron curtain
Heave-ho... Lift! ~
World's lungs revive...
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Categories:
iron curtain, health, world,
Form:
Free verse
Clerihew Abakaus
Magadalene Abakaus be quite certain
lived life behind the Iron curtain
Notwithstanding& for her part
created her much beloved fibre art...
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Categories:
iron curtain, art, people,
Form:
Clerihew
Ares
An atrocity loose
Across state of Ukraine
Annexation Russian
Arms raised in defiance
Against staggering odds
An iron curtain drops
Agamemnon awaits...
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Categories:
iron curtain, war,
Form:
Pleiades
Back in the USSR
June 21, 2025
For the Beatles 'Lay it to Me' song Contest by Charles Messina
The old iron curtain came down
But soon a clown reclaimed the crown
Ruthless and hollow-souled he rose
Now a foul Soviet wind blows
From the east it battered Ukraine
Spreading such cruel and endless pain
The past returns in blackened char
“Back in the U.S.S.R.”
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Categories:
iron curtain, conflict, history, international, pain, political, violence, war,
Form:
Lay
Distant Things
A Rumble in the Jungle, a Thriller in Manila
Blue suede shoes, Elvis and Priscilla
Old blue eyes, the star of the show
Distant things. Oh so long ago
A bay of pigs and all its cold war tension
Vietnam, is it even worth a mention
An iron curtain parted, people come and go
Distant things. Oh so long ago
Distant things, that happened in the past
Distant things, that shrink remaining vast
A history of distance, that's gone but seems to last
A different event. A different cast...
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Categories:
iron curtain, history, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme