on Ukraine

innocents murdered
becomes standard war practise
death of innocence

~

n.b. Has the war now reached Moscow, from whence it came?

CLP 31/05/2023

on Moscow

allegations thrown
child killer fears for his life
threatens more killings

~

n.b. Moscow is run by a mass murderer, who throws a squinny when he claims, without independent verification, that drones were sent to Russia assassinate him. No comment about the hundreds of thousands of lives lost as a result of his orders. No words can describe the contempt this man generates.

CLP 03/05/2023

On Moscow

Spiders eating each other in a jar

I saw one, a Pholcus phalandgioides
the Daddy Long Legs spider
Eat a Crane Fly, THE Daddy Long Legs

It was a warm autumn evening.
Fluttering, where wall met ceiling, caught my ear

The spider's small round body, an impossibly small pea-sized pea size
determinedly consuming its larger prey

The crane fly's slow-motion crumpling
joint by joint, papery wing by papery wing

flutter, flutte, flutt, flut, flu, fl, f
Then gone

It took a while.
To be honest, I was shocked.
Still am.

Spiders eating each other in a jar.

~

n.b. NaPoWriMo 2023 continues, but the Earth spins on. I was interested to read of an incident in Moscow, a pro-war blogger assassinated.

The spiders reference came from a comment by Mykhailo Podolyak, an official in Kyiv, when asked for his thoughts on the restaurant bomb. Even in war, poetry.

CLP 03/04/2023

on Ukraine

witness destruction
meted out by Earth's shaking
you men are feeble

~

n.b. The instantaneous chaos of an earthquake takes seconds to kill thousands, Russia determined to replicate Nature’s awesome strength in suffocating slow-motion. What does Moscow gain from the slaughter?

CLP 06/02/2023

on Ukraine

man angry after
the great humilation
no one must mock him

~

n.b. It was his, then he lost it, so he smashes it. No one can enjoy Kherson, if he cannot. Man, or toddler?

Moscow, you are proud to be led by such a creature?

CLP 29/11/2022

on Ukraine

somewhere someone sits
game controller at ready
distant drones despatched

~

n.b. Hey, Moscow! Why sacrifice the blood of your sons when you can just murder people in their beds in Kyiv remotely?

How low can a human being go?

CLP 17/10/2022