At the next peg
the Queen turned again,
and this time she said,
‘Speak in French
when you can’t think of
the English for a thing
– turn out your toes as you walk –
and remember who you are!
she did not wait for Alice
to curtsey this time,
but walked on quickly
to the next peg,
where she turned for a moment
to say ‘good-bye,’
and then hurried on to the last.
How it happened,
The US President is often said.
To favour the views of.
The person he spoke.
To most recently.
So there is little faith.
In Ukraine.
That he won’t be swayed.
By ‘the One’.
Particularly in.
A one-on-one meeting.
Particularly in.
A one-on-one meeting.
‘She’s all right again now,’
said the Red Queen.
‘Do you know Languages?
What’s the French for fiddle-de-dee?’
‘Fiddle-de-dee’s not English,’
Alice replied gravely.
‘Who ever said it was?’
said the Red Queen.
The very fact of.
The closed door meeting.
Was bad for Ukraine.
Said an ‘elf’ MP and.
Chair of the country’s.
Parliamentary committee.
On foreign affairs.
“Knowing the US President.”
“He can change his opinion.
very quickly.
There is great danger.
In that for us.”
Alice thought she saw a way
out of the difficulty this time.
‘If you’ll tell me
what language “fiddle-de-dee” is,
I’ll tell you the French for it!’
she exclaimed triumphantly.
But the Red Queen drew
herself up rather stiffly,
He said he feared that.
Such was the US President’s.
Desire to be seen.
As a dealmaker.
He may have privately.
Made advance agreements.
With the ‘orcs’.
With the ‘orcs’.
“The US President doesn’t.
Want embarrassment.
And if nothing is achieved.
He will be embarrassed.”
“The question is.
What could be?
In those agreements?”
In those agreements?”
and said
‘Queens never make bargains.’
‘I wish Queens never asked questions,’
Alice thought to herself.
‘Don’t let us quarrel,’
the White Queen said
in an anxious tone.
‘What is the cause of lightning?’
Various possibilities.
Have been suggested.
For arrangements that.
Could lead to a ceasefire.
From a freezing of.
The current frontlines.
– with no formal recognition.
Of the seized territory as ‘Mordor’’s –
To a maximalist position.
Of ‘Mordor’.
Annexing four entire regions.
In eastern and southern Ukraine.
Alice never knew,
but exactly as she came
to the last peg,
she was gone.
Whether she vanished
into the air,
or whether she ran quickly
into the wood
(‘and she can run very fast!’
thought Alice),
there was no way of guessing,
but she was gone,
and Alice began to remember
that she was a Pawn,
and that it would soon be time
for her to move.
*Because I read “’About our lives, but without our voice’: Sidelined Ukrainians look on” by Joel Gunter on 15 Aug 2025, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, including a story of Merezhko, led by ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Sidelined Ukrainians look on as Trump and Putin meet for Alaska talks
