POETS WAITING FOR THE CAPTURED IN ‘MORDOR’

‘Orcs’ capture the land.

‘Orcs’ capture, but he’ll be back to.

‘Orcs’ capture the land.

 

Three evacuation buses entered, but only one returned.

From the front line town of Popasna, in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas.

 

‘Orcs’ everyday advance a little further.

Food supplies in Popasna are expected to run out within a week.

 

Playing a key role in helping to evacuate people.

But five volunteer drivers and staff are either missing or captured.

 

A local history teacher set off in a school bus for Popasna.

To bring out who had been sheltering for weeks in cellars.

 

His wife had begged him to stop. But “He’s a stubborn man.”

“He said he wasn’t afraid and that people needed help.”

 

 

‘Orcs’ capture the land.

‘Orcs’ capture, but he’ll be back to.

‘Orcs’ capture the land.

 

“I’m begging you very much, bring my dad back to us.

We feel terrible without him, we miss him.”

 

“Please give my daddy back to me.”

Soon afterwards his daughter said in a tearful message.

 

“I feared the worst,” said his wife.

But then he appeared on TV broadcast in ‘Mordor’.

 

Ridiculously he’d been found in ‘Mordor’.

That he was suspected of being a spy by ‘orcs’.

 

His wife received an unexpected call from himself in ‘Mordor’.

He would be returned as part of some kind of a prisoner exchange.

 

 

‘Orcs’ capture the land.

‘Orcs’ capture, but he’ll be back to.

‘Orcs’ capture the land.

 

 

*Because I read “Donbas fighting: Risking capture to evacuate the vulnerable from the front line” by Andrew Harding in Donbas region, Ukraine, on 5 May 2022, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 April 2022, on the BBC news.

So, I wrote this poem as a story of Mykhail and his wife Yulia and their daughter Varvara.

Please read the original story on the BBC news:

Donbas fighting: Risking capture to evacuate the vulnerable from the front line – BBC News

 

**My friend shows you this poem also on the Ukrainian website for their children and others!

Kurama (Japan). «Poets waiting for the captured in ‘mordor’» — poem about war in Ukraine 2022 – Мала Сторінка (storinka.org)

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