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Leo Tolstoy Poems - Poems about Leo Tolstoy


Leo Tolstoy
..."Yeah, Tolstoy, the guy could write like he was carving his name into a mountain. A real heavyweight. He saw the whole circus of life and didn’t blink. Kings and peasants, love and deat......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christinas World by Andrew Wyeth - American Artist 1948
...“Art is the medium by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others” – Leo Tolstoy A bleak monotonous landscape, Had been her outlook for years. She so vehe......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, art, stress,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and Bound
...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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Categories: leo tolstoy, art, imagination, inspiration, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Get No Gifts Sans Giving
...Only so pleased by sacrifice Proffered through sacred flame, Graceful gods do give gifts of choice So deserved by unselfish aim; He that eats fruits by them bestowed, And gives not so in turn, ......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, giving, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member War and Peace: That Midst Nations and Nationals
...War and Peace: That Midst Nations And Nationals War and Peace, a classical fiction by Leo Tolstoy, first published as Voyna I Mir in 1865–69. This picturesque reflection of early 19......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, allegory, angst, life, marriage,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
... “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” –“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats “I lo......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, friendship, fun, happiness, journey,
Form: Romanticism
The Carnival
...And the revelers move in a parade Belly dancers, clowns and people with masks Ending with music, food and dance This a preparation for the arrival of LENT What kind of repentance is this ?? Para......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Kreutzer Sonata
...(In 1807, Beethoven wrote a piano/violin piece with this title. Count Leo Tolstoy followed in 1890, with a short novel of the same name, in which he argued that matrimony can never work.) Wha......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, marriage, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Anna Karenina
...Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, approximately 800 redundant pages of Kafkaesque scoffing at relentless banalities of economic and political elitists. Rather like transcribing often inebriated co......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, books, humor, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Making a Personal Change
...The world looks to us such a mess so we think we’re able to do a fix but how we expect to change the world it’s too big a prob for our few tricks Take a deep long think inside ponder a lot on ......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, change, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Part 2, Fully Booked
...Destruction, devastation, murders, mayhem, anarchy, ravages and the ruins of wars... Lost therein is peace. ~Part 2, Fully Booked contest by nette onclaud ~Title: War and Peac......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, peace, war,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Part 2 - Fully Booked
... Part 2 - Fully Booked War and Peace Praise the rights that all mankind live together in sweet peace. Damn the wrongs of bitter war... choices...live or die. Sandra M......

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Categories: leo tolstoy, peace, war,
Form: Dodoitsu

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