Month: May 2022

POETS IN THE VILLAGES WEST OF KYIV

Update Date：07/05/2022
Post Date：05/05/2022

AS A POET

Was it only blind bad luck? Vanished. What does that mean? Was it only blind bad luck? Disappeared. What was that cause? A father went out on an errand, and didn’t return. In the village of Hurivshchyna. She is waiting for her father. “He left home and never came back. And nobody saw […]

A POET IN LYSYCHANSK

Update Date：12/12/2022
Post Date：05/05/2022

AS A POET

Red-brick and stone walls. Blue sky and a white cloud. The glory of the heritage. Survived two world wars. Black smoke poured out. Red flames blazed up. Through a targeted shelling. In the school of hard knocks. Grey ashes overspread. Charred red-brick and stone walls. Standing on the ground. The heritage of Lysychansk. […]

POETS WAITING FOR A HOSTAGE IN ‘MORDOR’

Update Date：05/05/2022
Post Date：04/05/2022

AS A POET

‘Orcs’ torture the land. ‘Orcs’ torture, but he’ll be back to. ‘Orcs’ torture the land. Delivering food and medicine to her and her neighbours. Her son had just arrived. But ‘orcs’ were a few feet away. In the town of Makhariv, west of Kyiv. On her car ‘orcs’ sprayed painting ‘V’ and […]

A POET BACK FROM ‘MORDOR’

Update Date：04/05/2022
Post Date：02/05/2022

AS A POET

‘Orcs’ tortured the land. ‘Orcs’ tortured, but he’s back to. ‘Orcs’ tortured the land. Sitting on a hospital bed in Zaporizhzhya. Over a terrifying journey to ‘Mordor’ and back. With the bandage where his toes used to be. “It still hurts. The wounds are still fresh.” Hiding in a cold, damp […]