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socialist realism

by Peter Humphreys

images
in darkened rooms
russia
before all that
in a way
before the war
that finished all

the artists seem
to intuit
the coming dark
of red and black
when being primitive
ruled
and those who could
preferred to die
in attics
in Paris
not gulags
in Siberia

09/12/2013

Author's Note: Reactions to a stunning exhibition of Russian Art, pre- and post-Communist Revolution at the Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht, NL)

Posted on 09/12/2013
Copyright © 2024 Peter Humphreys

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Linda Fuller on 09/14/13 at 06:16 PM

Stark is the word that comes to mind, and weighty.

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