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Shostakovich Poems - Poems about Shostakovich


Verse of Burgess
...Sprawling, against a backlit Sun. Magenta the Clockwork of Time and its infinite antinominies ..................of timeless aimlessness and Void of Time fades as a memory the pu......

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Categories: shostakovich, 11th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Acrostic
Same As Ever
...It rained. A long dead dog got wet. I fell head over heels in love again. I think I died - thought - thunk. Hot coffee revived black no sugar. Walking now on pins and needles same ol same ......

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Categories: shostakovich, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Clerihew Shostakovich
...Dimitry Shostakovich a gifted composer so slick With a prolific reportoire symphonic &for a choir......

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Categories: shostakovich, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
An English Adaptation of Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea From Faust
...There was a king once reigning Who carried a great, big flea— And far from him complaining, The flea filled the king with glee! For to him that flea was dearer Than even his only son, And to ma......

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Categories: shostakovich, allegory, humorous, irony, political,
Form: Light Verse
Grand Pianos
...In that place which is North of normality where insanity's just a formality I'm sat listening to Dmitri Shostakovich.......

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Categories: shostakovich, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme



The Call of the Alpha Male
...Robin Hood, man in tights Julius Caesar, might makes right Alexander, called "the Great" Sitting Bull, righteous hate Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun Charlemagne, Napoleon Hear the c......

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Categories: shostakovich, funny, hero, humorous, men,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Why Bother Dying
...Why Bother Dying Instead... Revisit the child within Ask if Van Gogh hadn't experienced the sunflower Would we know yellow and ochre as intimate friends Would music's rapture remain alive without ......

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Categories: shostakovich, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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