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Best Russian Poems

Below are the all-time best Russian poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of russian poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Russian Evil Will Thrive If Good Men Do Nothing
The west went in guns blazing to help their fellow man
In Syria against the Islamic State and in Iraq and Afghanistan
They brought an end to...

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Categories: russian, conflict, death, war, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Russian Roulette
Playing
          Russian roulette
          With fate

  ...

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Categories: russian, death,
Form: Verse
A Ukraine Soldier and Russian Soldier Are Transformed
This story  tells the reality of the Ukrainian, Russian war. Not all Russian Soldiers want to be there but are forced by their Russian...

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Categories: russian, christian, death, deep,
Form: Free verse



Listening To Russian Poetry
The odor of turnips,
of seasoned cabbage water - borscht
flushed through musing kidneys.

Listening to Zhukovsky, Vysotsky, Tyutchev,
not comprehending a word of it.
Working my way backward
through an...

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Categories: russian, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Russian English Russian
I am pure Russian and I am the bear
I have  deep dark eyes and black , black hair
Russian girls are very pretty and very...

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© Jim Joyce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: russian, funny,
Form: Free verse
Krasivaya (Beautiful In Russian)
You shine like the stars in the sky,
You are the sparkle of my eye,
Like the rays of the sun,
You give life with your touch,
And with...

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Categories: russian, loveme,
Form: Free verse



Russian Mountain
Sacred and pristine Russian mountain;
here I am to ponder on your beauty;
From photographing you I cannot abstain!
Sacred and pristine Russian mountain.

Dear Russian mountain: 5861 miles...

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© Ivo Cos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: russian, beauty, journey, language, mountains,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Russian Dreams
Russian Dreams

Ukraine screams
In the deep of night
The death squad’s March and gaily sing
The motherland is great
Jews are all dead
Russia is the new Reich
No matter what...

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Categories: russian, abuse, freedom, racism, winter,
Form: Light Verse
The Upas-Tree By Alexander Pushkin
In desert that is poor and dull
On soil that is scorched with fire
The Upas-tree stands as a hull
as guard who's one who knows no tire.

The...

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Categories: russian, allegory, death, metaphor, pain,
Form: Lyric
You Don'T Love Me, You Don'T Have Compassion By Sergey Yesenin
You don't love me, you don't have compassion, 
Maybe I am handsome not enough, 
You don't look in face with wild passion 
putting arms on...

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Categories: russian, emotions, feelings, longing, lost
Form: Lyric
Come On Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Hear By Sergei Yesenin
Come on kiss me, kiss me, hear,
Let I'm hurt, let I am bleeding,
Cold's inside, it isn't greeting
boiling heart and falling tear.

Mug is overturned in revel,
But...

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Categories: russian, drink, emotions, feelings, kiss,
Form: Lyric
Wait For Me and I'Ll Be Back By Konstantin Simonov
Wait for me and I’ll be back
Only wait for me,
When your sadness turns in black,
Yellow rains are free.
When the snows fall down like fate,
When there...

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Categories: russian, emotions, feelings, hope, love,
Form: Lyric
Winter Morning By Alexander Pushkin
There're frost and sun, the day is fairy,
You're sleeping yet, sweetheart, you're merry,
It's time, wake up, my pretty lass,
Open your eyes that are so tender
towards...

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Categories: russian, emotions, feelings, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Say No To War
say no 
say no to war
how pity it is 
to see young innocent children
innocent of the evils of this world
crying for their dead mothers and...

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Categories: russian, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Nocturne By Vladimir Mayakovsky
I oiled the card of daily being
splashing the paint from glass; I pointed
slanting cheekbones of ocean streaming
on plate of jelly, I was joyed
to read the...

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Categories: russian, allegory, color, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Lyric

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