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
Tag Archives: Ukraine
on Ukraine
this is the future
unmanned aerial vehicles
war without soldiers
~
n.b. Eventually, no human risk to intervention, weapons fight weapons, just civilian casualties.
Who will prevail? The belligerent with most money. Something not previously the case, as the wealthy nations don’t like to see too many of their poorer sons sacrificed. See Vietnam, Afghanistan, Suez, Iraq, Sudan.
CLP 30/05/2023
on Ukraine
'Bakhmut is Gone' now
its name remains on a map
shells 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 where, through the rubble.
An explosion splays dirt and debris in the air, as another another artillery round lands. Vandalism on a municipal scale.
So, this is what Moscow argues is the price Ukrainian people must pay to be ‘freed’ from self-rule and government by their own elected representatives. This is liberation?
CLP 23/05/2023
on Ukraine
talk of days changes
four hundred and more turns to
counting 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
on Ukraine
"...if real peace talks start"
the newspaper suggested
what a bloody game
~
CLP 12/05/2023
on Ukraine
We wait for the cuckoos
Their calls prompting dreams of summer
You wait for the cuckoos to leave
Their absence prompting dreams of peace
~
CLP 10/05/2023
on Ukraine
one hundred years on
names carved into monuments
parents must explain
~
n.b. One day this horror too will be history. The battle then becomes preventing another.
CLP 04/05/2023
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 Ukraine
attack on suburbs
a three year old child victim
where remains safe now?
~
n.b. The bereaved mother thought the war was “far away” from their home on the outskirts of Dnipro, but sadly not, The Guardian reports this morning.
What, with killings like this and the forced deportation of children from occupied areas of Ukraine, the men in Moscow and their hand-maidens in the ministries, have clearly given up hope of any salvation under the terms of their Orthodox religion.
CLP 29/04/2023
on Ukraine
how could I complain
of broken sleep caused by wine?
you wake to sirens
~
n.b. Day 429. Cruise missiles launched at Ukraine’s cities before first light. Moscow’s unending terrorist attack on Ukraine persists.
CLP 28/04/2023
Journey of Words 