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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See previous poems in this series:-
War is lies and death.
ReplyDelete...and it never solves anything.
DeleteIt's a very good poem and very poignant.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading it Dave. I wanted to make it extra-personal through the use of real names of dead civilians.
DeletePutin 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.
ReplyDeleteTo him these lost lives have been incidental.
Delete"We don't need to escalate
ReplyDeleteYou see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate..."
Marvin Gaye was perfectly right.
DeleteDon't they say truth is the first casualty of war? the civilians are next.
ReplyDeleteIf only our outrage would achieve something, it would be finished in a flash
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.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the poems.
Viva Rusia.
ReplyDeleteFuckin U.S.A.
Heartbreaking words and photograph. What wonderful people to risk their lives to help others.
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