14 December 2022

Poem

Ukraine December 14th 2022


An unnamed girl aged  five or six,
Polina Kudrin aged ten,
Photo-journalist Macs Levin...
Irina Tsvila and Marina Kalabina
“There are no threats to the civilian population”.
 
An unnamed pregnant woman and child
The Fedko family and a lad called Ilya
Serge Zevlever and Yevheniy Sakun...
Naveen Shekharappa Gyandagoudar
“There are no threats to the civilian population”.
 
An actress aged 67 named Oksana Shvets ,
WWII survivor Mr Romantschenko aged 96,
Artem Pryimenko and Pasha Lee...
How many more deaths must there be?
“There are no threats to the civilian population”.

 

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12 comments:

  1. War is lies and death.

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  2. It's a very good poem and very poignant.

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    1. Thanks for reading it Dave. I wanted to make it extra-personal through the use of real names of dead civilians.

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  3. Putin is a piece of shit and his war is based on lies and his own sense of inadequacy, deep down in his soul, in my opinion. I don't despise many people but he is at the top of my list.

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    1. To him these lost lives have been incidental.

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  4. "We don't need to escalate
    You see, war is not the answer
    For only love can conquer hate..."

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  5. Don't they say truth is the first casualty of war? the civilians are next.
    If only our outrage would achieve something, it would be finished in a flash

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  6. I don't understand how he can claim to be defending his country when he made the first moves. I hope his Christmas Gift is a fatal heart attack, or a massive burst aneurysm. Yes, that sounds mean, but that's how much I hate him.
    Thank you for the poems.

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  7. Viva Rusia.
    Fuckin U.S.A.

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  8. Heartbreaking words and photograph. What wonderful people to risk their lives to help others.

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