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on Ukraine
‘Bakhmut is Gone’ nowits name remains on a mapshells have left mere shells ~ n.b. Today the New York Times shows film taken from a drone of the broken city. Three people huddled by a wall, checking whether it is safe to creep around the corner of a block, on their journey to god knows →
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on Ukraine
talk of days changesfour hundred and more turns tocounting passing years ~ n.b. We are becoming used to news of terror, criminality, invasion, cruelty. Attention! Attention! Attention! Daily attacks on Ukraine’s people continue. CLP 19/05/2023 →
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on Ukraine
We wait for the cuckoosTheir calls prompting dreams of summerYou wait for the cuckoos to leaveTheir absence prompting dreams of peace ~ CLP 10/05/2023 →
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on Moscow
allegations thrownchild killer fears for his lifethreatens 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 →
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Naming
Let us not pretendNames are unimportantWords are deployed likeBooby-trapped IEDsIf you trip the wireIt cannot be defusedNor put backIn the groundShrapnelPiercing heartsFragmenting argumentsThrough misnomersCall this warOf words and mindsWhile children lieBrokenUnder collapsedApartment blocks ~ n.b. Day 427 (I think). CLP 26/04/2023 →
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on Ukraine
twenty-five years forVladimir Kara-Murzafor calling out war ~ n.b. Mr Kara-Murza stayed in Russia to inform Russians about the invasion of Ukraine under the orders of Moscow. Sentenced to twenty-five years for being critical of Russia’s leadership, an exemplary sentence has been imposed. As a holder of Russian and British citizenships, it is thought he →
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on Ukraine
oh by the way, foodBlack Sea Grain Initiativethe world needs feeding ~ n.b. Would you mind passing the bread basket, while you’re at each other’s throats? The blithe expectation that wheat grain from Ukraine will not only be sown, grown, harvested, but shipped out, despite the nation being invaded by Moscow and the mercenaries, strikes →
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on Ukraine
another Spring dawnswar without clear beginningwith no end in sight ~ n.b. The men in Moscow prefer a war economy to something better. Ukraine is being steadily reduced to the new Flanders Fields, where the prospect of better weather, leads to the prospect of increased conflict. CLP 29/03/2023 →
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on Ukraine
how low will he go?the pied piper of Moscowsteals children from streets ~ n.b. ‘Re-education’ and ‘adoption’ awaits the children of Ukraine transported by the man behind the terror campaign against Ukraine’s people. CLP 19/03/2023 →
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on Ukraine
rockets hit Lviv”It’s been a difficult night’we complain of snow ~ n.b. Compassion fatigue, anyone? The war is unrelenting in its cruelty. CLP 09/03/2023 →
Journey of Words 