Thursday, 1 September 2022

A Russian Cocktail

September: Wow, the sun still shines!

I trawl the news these troubled times

For some choice nugget to relate :

ThOlympics - Munich*  a dark date …

 

Israeli athletes lost their lives

To scary Black September guys…

Spotlight on Russia (not the war):

Mikhail Gorbachev - no more.

 

World leader who changed Kremlin’s face;

Think Thatcher, Reagan, the Arms Race

A wind of change; chess moves - detente

In Russia though, mixed memories haunt…

 

Back to the mundane – fuel costs rise

Why is that no real surprise?

But as I said, the sun still shines,

Rays of hope for better times?


(c) Poet in the woods 2022


*11 athletes died (September 5th, 1972)


Mikhail Gorbachev  2.3.1931 - 29.8.2022


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