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Confess if I dare

...Dare me to diagnose my condition?
 
I'm diagnosed with depression
Or rather does depression have me
Even the sad rain cries for me
Or do I cry because of rain

I’m bipolar type one
Or so I’ve...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, addiction, depression, father, identity,
Form: Free verse

Evil

...“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”                                                                                            
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Categories: solzhenitsyn, evil,
Form: Free verse

The Evil Within

...Within the heart of everyone
There lurks an evil mystery.
Undermining good intentions,
Spurring on to malefaction.

God declares, our hearts are wicked,
defiled by sin and selfishness.
Yet in ...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, corruption, evil, sin,
Form: Free verse

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In Our Hearts and Prayers

...“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the l...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, conflict, political, war,
Form: Villanelle

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
Imprisoned under the communist dictatorship 
Of Joseph Stalin,
Survived the horrific conditions 
Of the Gulag Archipelago, 
And believed that all these 
Terrible atrocit...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, courage, discrimination, hate, political,
Form: Free verse

His Kingdom Come His Will Be Done

...In the winds, old histories tossed, 
To speak of it, freedom that’s lost,
From the hill tops Dostoevsky screams aloud, 
Lost their God indeed, the proud.

Much can’t say but, tis I tell,
Where ...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, freedom, international, leadership, military,
Form: Quatrain

50 Words For Poe: Immaculate

...
"50 Words for Poe: Immaculate"




Love Immaculate
Souls now in sync
Souls merge in time
Powerful Immaculate

Hunger comes fast
Hunger for Lo...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, dark, freedom, judgement, love
Form: Free verse

Just As Bad As Nazis, Part Ii

......Then, of course, there is the idea
that people are nothing but groups,
whether lumped by skin or income
there’s nothing further from the truth.
A group is but an abstraction,
it’s the one whe...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, corruption, evil, how i
Form: Rhyme

Power of Journeys

...Power of Journeys

New horizons speak in hope and pull me to Pablo Neruda’s country
                   ‘Twenty poems of love’ inspired by Santiago Robinson Crusoe Island
Serene landscapes volcano...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, love, travel,
Form: Rhyme

I'M Moving To Russia

...That's it
I'm moving to Russia
to write with the kings
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
to sit in the cafes
and watch the pretty blond
Russik girls
Cook hot in winter
and get kicked out for talking too...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, emotions, romantic,
Form: Prose

An Ode To That Which Is Given

...I
Moby Dick is a classic, so I've been told
tried to read when was younger, tried to read when more old
chastised my own self severely each time
for not having interest in words so sublime.
II
Billy ...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, introspection, thank you, words,
Form: Ode

I Saw Him Standing There

...
I see you there,
painting a literary facade,
thumbing through Cervantes
as though it has usurped your very being.
Your unenthused stance reveals your ruse
as do your constant glances i...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, imagination, life, on writing
Form: Free verse

A Literate Interlude

...In a stolen moment
of solitude I sit
at the base of my
bookshelf and
surrender to swirling
synaptic symphonies of
Solzhenitsyn

In yet another
purloined pause
I pensively peruse
Poe’s peda...

Categories: solzhenitsyn, life, mother, on writing
Form: Free verse