Short Moscow Poems

Violence all round...
Haitians, Houthis and Hamas...
Moscow massacre...
The world we've inherited
is hell in a handbasket....

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Let our girls remember artists from Arbat in Moscow,
Where the roofs are for fairy life and stories for - children,
Waiting us, poets!...

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Mitch McConnell believes in fair play
Just as long as it all goes his way
There is no fact
Mitch can't redact
Or Donald J. Trump will make him pay!...

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powdery snow-drenched
coldest in seventy years
eyes frostbitten from hot tears

frozen mustaches
stalactites dripping with chill
million ruble lunch to thaw...

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Growing Glitch in Moscow Mitch

What we found was a growing glitch, 
That would appear in Moscow Mitch;
Chews his cud;
Real dumb dud, 
Then it tight together he must stitch.

Jim Horn...

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I have traveled, I have seen the world,
Let me tell you what I once was told -
Whether it’s Moscow, Prague or Rome
There is no sweeter place than home.



January 23, 2022...

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There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw
She was the dumbest I ever saw.
She was bound for Krakow
But wound up in Moscow
Holding a kielbasa in each paw.


Who says a limerick has to be Irish?...

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Warsaw, Moscow
       cities in Indiana

     Pekin, Paris
       towns in Illinois

     All four northwest
       of the Iroquois...

     Don't ask me why I wrote this
       Ask me instead for a kiss...

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Whether you are in St. Petersburg or Moscow,
if you want to thank someone, here's how:
To any native citizen of Russia,
all you have to say is "spassiba".
In return, they will say "pazhalusta".
...

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Santa looked out it was bleak with snow
Got the reindeer all ready to go
But dispite all the snowing
There's one place he ain't going
You've probably guessed right it's Moscow.

Written 11th December 2022 ...

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as i gaze over
the soft granduer 
i'm drawn to rows of violets 
the nectar daintily 
dances about quiet scents
of calm breezes
chafe and yet tempting
while i rise beyond
the granite structures
industrial past times
gently i wave back at moscow...

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I snowed love
   In Moscow
I showed love
   In Warsaw

I kissed love
   In Paris
I romanced love
   In Rome

I showered love
   In London
I lived love
  In Sweden

I sited love 
   In Dubai
I tasted love
   In Mumbai

I burnt love
   In Jamaica 
I fell in love
   In Africa...

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Oh how much I pity the coming generations 

                                               That 

                   Have to pay for crimes they never committed!*


 

© Demetrios Trifiatis
   23 December 2015

* No snow in Moscow, cherry trees bloom in Germany,
London enjoys warm weather. Nature will retaliate....

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In K-5, K-8 or K-12 is drained
    the curiosity from eager brains

  Then off to college most folks go
    where Truth is disseminated from Moscow

  A nursing home's a spruced-up jail
    from which residents would love to bail ...

  In between, we're on the job every day
    where we're overworked and underpaid...

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the day the Russians
are pushed back past their boarder
there is already unrest in Moscow
and Russia's idea
to invade Ukraine
caused a civil war
on their own soil
pro Ukraine militants
taking over towns
as they prepare for
soviet implosion
hey I'm here
I'm an American
and I think this is just
what Putin needs
or has this been
the plan all along
to become a democracy...

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This Grand Opening
I attended: Scene
McDonald’s, Moscow,
Queue extended over
Under Pushkin Square
(Some saw the poet’s
Spirit rise and sniff
The air).  No
Royalty to cut
The ribbon, courtesy
Of Comrade Lenin,
Just some shivering,
Hatless Business Guys
With Cheeseburger Eyes,
Cutting Communism down
To size with French Fries,
Beating back
The Russian Winter
With Hot Apple Pies....

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From Moscow to Kiev
It is not too far.
Putin wants to be
The new Russian Czar.

The Russian ballet
In Moscow's Bolshoi
Became a death dance
In Putin's war convoy.

Sanctions are sweet bullets
Never punish bad behavior
Always hurt innocent people
Never believe any nation's saviour.

Tolstoy, Gorki and Dostoewsky
Great works they wrote.
Putin's future biography
An odious bloody note....

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TOM'S SECRET MISSION
Tom; who has been, in training, for some while nowAs starting with him taking his first parachute jumpNow, on a secret mission, due to drop in on MoscowWhere it's off, to the Kremlin; to give Putin a thump
Indiana Shaw . . ....

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There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw
'twas the dumbest blonde I ever saw.
She was bound for Krakow
but wound up in Moscow
holding a kielbasa in each paw.

This dumb blonde headed back to Warsaw
without kielbasa in either paw.
Under a chair beneath
she had lost her false teeth
and had to eat sausage through a straw.

written March 15, 2011
I checked the syllable counts in each line myself
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Your waist is tiny, you face is cute. 
I wasn't wining, your tongue's acute. 

As we walked the streets of Moscow 
Already knew what I would allow 

You to do with me. How exciting! 
Your hands, spirit are so inviting. 

Good thing it is, I was not lonesome. 
You seem content, your soul is wholesome. 

What do you dream of? I wanna know! 
What are you thinking, although don't show? 

Right! No long-term planning! Way to be. 
Go on slamming words 'bout you and me....

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a spurge, a spruce, a creamy spume
of Moscow mayday tree in bloom,
a crush, a diffidence innate
to youth, a long-awaited date,
a me, excited, nervous, pale,
a garden seat, a nightingale,
a slice of sun in strongest tea 
of dusk, a braid, a trendy tee,
a checkered knee-length skirt, a you, 
a sigh, another one, a few
looks at the wristwatch, an abyss
of desperation, a… a kiss. 


05.30.2019
Going Deep Within An Emotion Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sheri Fresonke Harper...

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Nadia Comaneci 
Gymnastic Queen
Olympic starlet
Romania's dream
 
Montreal summer
As this young girl bloomed
Three Gold Medals
Young boys swooned
 
Moscow 1980
Another two Golds won
For this Romanian girl
The darling one
 
America bound via Montreal
This young gymnast stool so tall
Her dance routines, amazing and hip
From her somersaults, to her back flips
 
She was one of my idols
When i was in my teens
Her Perfect 10
Has to be seen
 
" Dedicated to Nadia Comaneci "...

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