Tag: #Russia

• NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 15-Golden Chanterelles

  

  Today’s daily resource is The Shakespeare & Company Interview, a podcast recorded on-site at the renowned Paris bookstore. While not all do, many of the episodes feature poets/poetry. And now for our prompt – optional, as always! Today, we’d like to encourage you to take a look at @StampsBot, and become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and…

  Smitha V

  April 15, 2024

  Poetry

  #Destruction, #GloPoWriMo2024, #history, #hope, #mushrooms, #NaPoWriMo2024, #poetry, #resilience, #Russia, #sovietunion, #stamps, #War, #world

• Unaccounted

  

  The sad part about war among many other things is that there will be some who will leave the earth without a trace of ever having been here. Who, what, where, why, how? How is this, war?Who is the enemy here?New born babies, pregnant mothers?School going children? Patients? Doctors?Teachers? Mall shoppers? Isn’t this genocide?What do…

  Smitha V

  November 4, 2023

  Poetry

  #children, #death, #Gaza, #humanity, #israel, #life, #palestine, #questions, #Russia, #sadpoem, #stopwar, #truth, #Ukraine, #unaccounted, #warpoem

• How easy to become a refugee?

  

  Mr President, Sir You taught me something new today I thought those who fled their nation were a different breed Forgive me, my ignorance But, I thought they came from nations ruled by zealots where violence was a norm; cursed countries gave birth to them – and I felt sorry for them As I watched…

  Smitha V

  February 28, 2022

  Poetry

  #CallforPeace, #currentissues, #hope, #humanity, #irony, #people, #Refugee, #Russia, #Ukraine, #War, Poetry

• To Russia, with love

  

  You are strong, we knowYou don’t need to stoop lowTo prove your point You don’t need to sullyYour reputation. Don’t be a bullyCome on, Russia You can do so much betterBe the bigger person, play the good, ‘Big brother’.Remember the phrase ‘Love thy neighbour’? Nothing good ever comes from warsOther than deep, ugly, painful scarsWake…

  Smitha V

  February 27, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry

  #againstwar #plea, #CallforPeace, #Russia, #stopwar, #Ukraine