Chechnya
Chechnya
Retina less windows
Bodies strewn in foul streets
A photo of Grozny
Summary executions
Death sways from unlit lampposts
Friend or foe who knows
Conspiracy of peace
Both sides declare victory
The truth is debris
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Money Signs
Money Signs
God is a dollar sign
A mark we truly believe in
Amen
But there are many gods
One bears the name of Euro
An arriviste
Given too much publicity
Loved by bankers
Cursed by the destitute
Who deify obsolete punts.
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Misunderstanding
Night outside was not as dark as the bedroom,
I could see its greyness through the window.
Lifted up my arm and with flat palm blocked
the outdoor night. Wife switched on bedside
lamp, asked why I was doing Nazi salute in bed?
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Housework
Wash the dishes dear.
A bard doesn’t do dishes.
William Shakespeare did,
wrote his best work when cleaning windows,
for his wife.
I didn’t know that darling; anyway
windows look ok to me.
I didn’t mean the windows but the dishes.
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Happy Poems
Two Sadorma poems
Path unknown
Yet walked before
My footsteps.
Trees know me
Turn winter into April
Just to gladden me.
Saw a saint
Walking down the street
Brutal rain
Cold as frost
But the saint, comfy and dry
Under his halo.
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Camera Angle
Camera Angle
We have
been
to Rome,
look here’s
a photo of
St. Petersburg’s
square.
Isn’t that’s
in Russia?
Is it?
Sorry,
we have
travelled
all over
Europe
been so
busy taking
pictures,
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Love Letter 2
Love Letter
Behind long eyelashes
Your brown eyes spoke
Of untold passion
Our cafe table was an oasis
Of tranquillity
I hoped time would stop
Forever be this moment
But it was not to be
I saw you as a daydream
When I woke up
You had gone.
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Silk and A Rabbit
Dark at eight o’clock
and the night is like black silk
wrapped around a tired landscape.
A rabbit crosses the road
confused by the car’s light
it stops.
Lights dimmed it continues
and I hope it will live long enough
to see the sunrise.
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Fragment
Fragment.
And there comes a time when the said sinks into silence,
the story teller has no more to say. Around the fireplace
the listeners look at the teller who looks into the fire, and
as the fire slowly turns into ember they leave him alone.
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Love
Love.
The joy of first love
can’t be copied,
but man tries and tries
to repeat this experience,
and on his way causes
much unhappiness
for his craving of love’s
impossibility.
This last till he gets old
and settles for simple
friendship
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