Archive List for AS A POET

At dawn one morning. You drive towards. The battlefield outside. The city of Pokrovsk.   Fields of dried sunflowers. Line the sides of the roads. There is barely any cover. And so you drive.   At breakneck speed. In order to protect. Yourselves against. ‘Orcs’ drone attacks.   You hear loud explosions. As you near […]

There are those who. Are not yet leaving town. Close to Pokrovsk. Among them are locals.   Working to repair. War-damaged infrastructure. “I live on one of the streets. Closest to the front line.”   “Everything is burnt out. Around my house. My neighbours died. After their home was shelled.”   He says. As he […]

“Why does ‘the One’? Want more land? Doesn’t he have enough? He has killed so many people.”     From a mattress. On the floor of. An evacuation van. A 80-year-old has no sympathy.   For the advancing. ‘Orcs’ forces. “Damn this war! I’m going to die,” she wails.     “Why does ‘the One’? […]

“So many of our boys. Are dying. So many are wounded. They’re sacrificing their lives.”   “And this is going on. And on,” she says. “And this is going on. And on,” she says.     Most of Pokrovsk. Is now without. Power and water. At a school.   There is a queue of people. […]

The drones are. Also a threat. To the remaining citizens. Of Pokrovsk.   “We constantly hear. Them buzzing. – they stop and look. Inside the windows.”     Says a woman, 50. One of the remaining. War-weary residents. But even she has now agreed.   To be evacuated. From her home. On the particularly dangerous. […]

In the treatment room. Of a cramped makeshift field unit. – the first point of treatment. For injured soldiers.     “This is the most dangerous. Of all front lines.” Says the head of a medical unit for. The ‘elves’ army’s 25th Brigade.   “The ‘orcs’ Federation. Is pushing very hard. We have not been […]

Her home in the small. Mining city of Vuhledar. In eastern Ukraine. Was her pride and joy.   17 Sadova Street was. Little more than a shell. When she and her husband. Bought it.   They lovingly renovated the house. Painting cherry blossom and doves. – symbols of love and well-being – In their bedroom. […]

One unfortunate ‘orc’ soldier. Became an unwilling test subject. For a new kind of ‘elves’ drone. This week.   With the ‘elves’ army’s. 118th Mechanized Brigade. Holding the line. In southern ‘elves’ Zaporizhzhia Oblast.   A drone operator. Was patrolling the front. With their quadcopter-style drone. When they spotted.   A solitary ‘orc’. Marching along […]

An ‘elves’ attack on. A warehouse in southern ‘Mordor’. Blew up 400 Iranian-made. Shahed attack drones.   That’s nearly five percent. Of all the 440-pound Shaheds. ‘Mordor’ has deployed so far in its. 31-month wider war on Ukraine.   Video of the resulting. Conflagration near Oktyabrsky. Seems to confirm. The strike.   “An accurate hit […]

Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, An’ aa’ll tell ye aall an aaful story, Whisht! lads, haad yor gobs, An’ Aa’ll tel ye ‘boot ‘the One’.   On Sunday morning who went? Afishing in the Moskva, And catched a fish upon whose heuk? Who thowt leukt vary queer?   But whatnt kind oer fish is it […]