Tsarist Poems - Poems about Tsarist

...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation... Maternal grandfather of mine long since passed among the living; He left his Motherland before onset of Holodomor, a policy of the Soviet Union......

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...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation... Russian soldiers in general and Vladimir Putin in particular perpetrate outright injustice against Ukrainian population. Impossible mission to......

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...In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye" A follow up from Leo Tolsty's, "War and Peace" I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die" Re......

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...Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill – XXXIX, Part One Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the chief proponent of Soviet literature, the ......

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...Unquotable quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men – XXVIII for Colin Wilson (1931-1913) regrets for the “provoked” faux pas To each his own: to Colin Wilson his......

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...Second Quiz with even broader hints for blind poets The Princess Anna stood arms half-akimbo at the scrawny edge of the receding bank her Polonaise pollarded down to her exposed ta......

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...Limerick: Once the Great Grandson of Queen Victoria Once the great grandson* of Victoria Heir to the throne of tsarist Russia Saved by “Doc” Rasputin Killed by Lenin-Stalin Lo! Heir to Queen Vic’s h......

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...AMBER CHANDELIER Late October and dark trees Bare of branch and bark Mask an airy golden volume yet: A leafy brightness in autumn’s aura. Gloom of day but the spreading maple’s As if seen t......

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...Kulaks never acquisced* Stalin's regime of hierarchical Russia, for it made them very prosperous growing grains for brewing Vodka, and because of the prosperity, they seemed extremely rambanctious*......

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