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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.”

Categories: soviet, conflict, history, international, pain,
Form: Lay

A Century Turns: Soviet Union's Life Expectancy: I

Chapter 1: The End of the Eastern Gilded Age


'Twas thrice yon 'ere time clichés galore, albeit, one two many times, that fairy tale's opening wouldst hitherto a harp. History, the effects of narratives indulgences of a period, like an opening performance as a harp is being tuned then it's time to play expressively to narratives

Categories: soviet, analogy, appreciation, death, family,
Form: Other

Born To Dance

Born wearing ballet shoes
without knowing,
far in the deep nature, 
in the Sakhalin Islands,
a ballet star opened his eyes
for the first time.

Warmed by the love of his
family, he grew up happy
until his life changed.
He travelled without ballet shoes to Riga, 
where he saw a new beginning, 
still warmed by his mum.

A beautiful blond seven year old

Categories: soviet, absence, allegory, blessing, dance,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Joys Bloom

They went to the spar hotel and got it on. One time was enough to revive the old socialist. He was fully revived. This was similar but different than before. They bonked away one session and did other things. This was better than being in the reading room studying revolutionary doctrines. The human body needed

Categories: soviet, conflict, devotion, history, war,
Form: Blank verse

Perestroika, a Love Letter

Perestroika, a love letter


Glasnost beaten by the devil
prison camps revitalized
repression modernized
 	for the new world
	new wars the same young men die
Ukraine's children bleed red

Putin's delusions
unraveled Russian humanity

He could suffer no longer
he sang songs at the piano
in reminisce
languishing in time
that seemed to move backwards
solitude became intolerable

A marked man buried
never forgotten
in the wind a soft voice whispers
come

Categories: soviet, america, death, integrity, leadership,
Form: Free verse

To Holocaust Survivors In the Former Soviet Union

You worked so hard but just exist.
Your high school grad dates you just missed,
evacuated from Ukraine.

In Russia’s army to resist,
you fought the tyrant Hitler’s reign.
You worked so hard but just exist

on meager pensions. You subsist
by choosing food or meds, that’s plain.
No other kinfolks to assist

in taking care of you in midst
of tears and shakes of

Categories: soviet, discrimination, grandfather, grandmother, hate,
Form: Villanelle

The Old Soviet Union

The old soviet-union 

It must have been winter when the old tank skip
Sailed through the Dardanelles into the Black sea
Which was full of ice flakes.

The ship was loading oil in a town I have forgotten
The name of, but I do remember it was sparse 
On-street lights had a wide boulevard and few cars.

We found a

Categories: soviet, best friend, blessing, books,
Form: Blank verse

Soviet Jet

Soviet Jet
Soviets are like mosquitoes
Always there in the environment
There’s no escape from them
They get in your head

So they rule you remorsessly
By power of paranoia
A bite is a bullet
An infection is a bomb

A disease is a nuclear blast
Mosquitoes are Russians
Russians are mosquitoes
Waiting to be eradicated

By a superior power
Always ready for war
Endless circle of deceit
Mosquito flight round

Categories: soviet, anger, conflict, insect,
Form: Free verse

Soviet Story

Hungary 1956
The innocent flowers peered gingerly
Through the stench in the iron pavement
   Hesitating, then stretching the petals greedily
   To drink of the sunlight of Possibility...

       Czechoslovakia 1968
Beaming, grinning, grown men giddy with laughter
Liberty unleashed! Gone Repression's manacles
   Now marching, shouting, swelling to a

Categories: soviet, freedom, happiness, hope,
Form: Free verse

Union of Sanders Soviet Republic Ussr

Union of Sanders Soviet Republic USSR

There is a union of socialists who like Sanders
Phallic symbol of those who are philanderers
That have come up with a huge cavalcade
Of many solutions seeming to be readymade.

When things happen and are in much doubt
Put is a disk so some answers will pop out
After many things were over-exaggerated
While in long

Categories: soviet, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Soviet Sex

SOVIET      SEX

An old professor,  communist  and wed,                      
Had recently been  rather  emotive:

Categories: soviet, love
Form: Sonnet