12 October 2022

Poem

Ukraine October 12th 2022

Cue music and let's get back to the game
Whining of missiles and roaring of flame
From Lyviv in the west to Kremenchuk
If death has occurred, why must you look?
“There are no threats to the civilian population”.

He sits in his high backed leather chair
Pressing the buttons devil may care
Fuming  about the damaged Kirch Bridge
And assaults on  his proud Russian heritage
“There are no threats to the civilian population”.

Summer is over and Winter's ahead
Speak silently of our glorious dead
The champion gamer has just made his mark
Where a bomb crater's yawning in Shevchenko Park
“There are no threats to the civilian population”.

17 comments:

  1. Putin=scum
    War=threats to the civilian population

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  2. These are very good. Have you done one each month?

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    1. I made Ukraine poems in March, April, May and June but nothing inspired me to write new ones in July, August and September.

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  3. It just gets scarier.

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    1. How can it end? There seems to me no way out for Adolf Putin.

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  4. No, no, it's not war - just a short military incursion to bring the Ukraine to heel. It will all be over in a week.
    The majority of us must now be wondering why this madman has not been "disposed" of - as he's disposed of others.

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    1. "Special operation" my arse! He needs a "special operation" himself - involving the removal of testicles.

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  5. Nice work. I can imagine innocents being killed when a military installation is targeted but he is targeting residential buildings. Putin is an animal on the lowest level.

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  6. Putin made a terrible mistake by going to war. I suppose it is called empire building and he can't go back sadly. For this atrocity hundreds of thousand people have been displaced and many killed. What I have never understood about war is the sheer wickedness of it in the killing. I feel just as sorry for Russian troops as Ukranian troops.

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    1. It seems that most Russian troops have little or no commitment to this war. They wonder what the hell they are fighting for. Does anybody really know?

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  7. In grave danger of risking a few steps backwards on my way to becoming the politest blogger in cyberspace, just in time a few Brecht-lines "For those born later" come to my mind:
    Dabei wissen wir ja:
    Auch der Haß gegen die Niedrigkeit
    Verzerrt die Züge.
    Auch der Zorn über das Unrecht
    Macht die Stimme heiser. Ach, wir
    Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten für Freundlichkeit
    Konnten selber nicht freundlich sein.
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    Even the hatred of squalor
    Makes the brow grow stern.
    Even anger against injustice
    Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we
    Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
    Could not ourselves be kind.

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    1. A puzzling comment that has left me slightly flummoxed.

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    2. Sorry for flummoxing, Neil.
      Helplessness? I was just trying to calm down.
      How I despise this person!

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  8. Well put, YP, it's appalling. Every single second of it and the lies. And mass graves of children. I would kill him on sight if I could.
    XO
    WWW

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  9. Where's a sniper assassin when you need one?

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