One envisions a swirl of mayhem <br />With an oceanic perpetuity splashing <br />Against the involuted classes marching <br />Stoically providential as in the masterpiece <br />Repin's 'Religious Procession in the Kursk Guberniya' <br />To what destination awaiting fulfillment <br />Freezing vodka and a boiling samovar <br />Tempered by the revolution of Slavic spirit <br />Somehow never abandoning its true mistress <br />Whose love of verse transcends all creeds <br />Discovering an unknown poem by Pushkin <br />Worth all the gems of a Faberge egg.<br /><br />Pasquale DiMeola<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-russian-treasure/
