Yuri Poems

White Flower

...yuri of pure white 

essence of nobility

temperance of soul...

Vostok 1

...Vostok 1

Within the time allotted
of eighty-nine minutes,
to orbit the planet
at 17,500 miles per hour;
The Russian Cosmonaut
inside the Vostok capsule
espies the distinctive
feature...

Actually I Like Russia

...Actually, I like Russia
But want her to join Asia:
Doesn’t really belong to Europe;
Like she is there tired with a rope:
So much Asian bravado:
Others under my shadow!

Shall I forget her Brez...

The Seashore - a Tautogram

...Annabelle Albatross’s amazing aquatics astound audiences at Atlantic airshows.

Bill Beaver’s barrel-rolling barely bumps bobbing buoys.

Crustaceans crowd cramped coves.  Charlie Crab cowers, ca...

To the Lost

...So many women,
Lost to time.

Mileva Maric,
Helene Kaufler-Savic,
Chien-Shiung Wu.

In a world of men,
Their lights in shadow,
We’ve left their memory to fade away.

The pedestal they dese...

First Man In Space

...As much fame for Yuri Gagarin was never afforded
First man in space in 1961, was Yuri who completed one orbit
A Soviet Air Forces pilot
The acclaim was more quiet
A gigantic achievement b...

Kremlin Postkard of Kandor

...

A missive postkard from Russia to Amerika:

Deer Amerikan elekted leaders:
Yuri headlight Magnitsky bad policy,
of swift monetary attrition Ru$$ian decision, 
have sanktion krashed ou...

The Knife

...Yuri,
as elegant as a knife is, danger comes with it.
and so are you.

The closer you come to a knife, the more you can feel its beauty,
untill the point you start to feel the fear.
and so are ...

To the Moon

...In April of '57 the US got quite the shock
   The Soviets launched Sputnik
   The space satellite rock  
We fell behind in the race from that very day,
That is, until we elected a President named...

Kremlin Gremlins

...About an hour later she slipped
Yuri Andropov into the conversation:
*“I have to drop off a blouse at the dry cleaners.”*
Suddenly it was May Day &
I’m back in Red Square,
Dwarfed beneath larger...

My Words

...My words are one, and mine alone, there nor right or wrong,  just are mine to own, 
Nobody can take them away,  only I can have word on what I say or feel. I know what I have to say about life, kids...

Hello There, Runt

...Hello There, Runt

By Elton Camp

A cry of outrage comes from the politically correct
For the very word “runt” they will angrily reject
But I have used it only to gain for this poem attention
...

Twentynet'60s-W

...Venera one
Mission Venus
Yuri Gagarin on Vostok
First man in Space.
Mars One
First woman
Valentina Tereshkova.
In space.
Leonev’s ten-minute walk in space.
An unmanned Soviet Craft Luna Nine...

Gagarin and Columbus

...GAGARIN  AND  COLUMBUS

Brave or foolhardy
He was a dreamer of voyages 
Into  unexplored, unknown, undiscovered country,
The first to pursue the visionary images
That few had even seen clearly....

Yuri

...An unusual lady I barely see,
My love for you will drown the wide seas
And in the wide seas I shall find you, o’ black pearl
‘Cause staying beside you is my unfathomable lair.

But they always s...

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