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Poetry
The Revolution Speech
By Blade
06 April 2005
I hesitated on adding this because it is a very strange work. It's stylized for a speech from the period of Russian Revolution in october 1917. Before anyone asks, I do not symphatise with the communist idea.

Long live the greatest revolution!
May freely go the fight of class!
We won't make the stupid constitution
Tie the reign of the working mass!
The time's long gone for tsar the tyrant!
All power to the counsel's hands!
No time for mercy, punish exploitants!
Those not with us - against us stand!
We go to battle, fellow comrades
That will rearrange all the world!
It is not a walk to open gates!
It's blood of struggles yet untold!
Glory to our beloved party!
The truth is in the bolshoi boil!
Death for reaction's White Anarchy
And to the weak liberal choir!
Imperialstic war in Europe
Is not the one of our own!
The Civil War we have to cope
With in the rising new red dawn!
The proprietors' scabb agenda
Lies Lenin helps the German claim!
Contrrevolution's propaganda
Will not grow in Russian domain!
Long life for the Central Committee!
Land for the Russia righteous sons!
Victory to our bolshoi party!
We'll be praised in thanksgiving songs!
When the torch of the revolution
Will soak it's flame in all the realms,
Children brought up in Soviet Union
Will say that right was Lenin's deal!

Reviews
"Allons, enfants ..... !"
Written by PaulMcDermott ( comments posted) 7th April 2005
8) I can almost hear the brass bands playing as I read! 
? line 6: did you mean "council" rather than "COUNSEL"? 
and is the "bolshoi boil" (line 14) on somebody's backside ....?? :grin  
 
Not (I hope!) nit-picking: this was a thoroughly enjoyable (if somewhat "dated"!!) picture of revolutionary Russia in its heyday! 
Keep 'em comin' !!
Attention!
Written by Betsie (30 comments posted) 15th April 2005
Well done - you have achieved what you set out to do and evoke the feeling of revolution. 
 
Not quite my cup of tea - (from a samovar) 
 
Loved Paul's backside boil! 
 
Sorry for my flippancy - a well constructed poem.

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