On this video: Kurama (Japan). «A poet in Novovoznesenske» — a poem about war in Ukraine 2022. Elyzaveta Slyusarenko reads.
Kurama
(Japan)
A POET IN NOVOVOZNESENSKE
Her face lights up as she recalls.
The moment of her liberation.
When the hated occupiers were forced from her village.
Novovoznesenske, in the southern region of Kherson.
She farmed there in peace and quiet.
Until ‘orcs’ arrived on 29 March.
What they did not destroy, they stole, she says.
Including forks and spoons, and the shoes from a pensioner's feet.
She says, “They were a rabble.”
Wringing her hands.
As she relives her trauma.
Freedom finally came on 2 September.
“When our armed forces arrived.
We were in the basement.”
“They asked, in ‘elves’ language.
‘Is anyone alive?’.”
“And I realized.
They were ours.
They were so handsome, so beautiful.
Especially compared to the fascists.”
“I did not know.
What to do with them.
If I should hug them or hold their hands?
I touched them and I was very happy.”
After months of deadlock.
‘Elves’ — and ‘orcs’ — are facing a new reality.
Suddenly there is momentum in the largest conflict.
In Europe since World War Two.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
Please read the original story:
Ukraine war: Shock and joy in newly liberated villages — BBC News
Please read more poems by Kurama about 2022 russian invasion of Ukraine:
"Aware of a poet?
Aware of a poet?
A poet of Cossack broods over the land.
Not noting a bullet.
Not noting a bullet.
You see a poet of Cossack in Borodyanka."
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Думки українських поетів про рідну країну, їхні відчуття до української землі і нашого народу — все це юні читачі зможуть знайти в представленій добірці віршів про Україну від Ганни Черінь, Юрка Шкрумеляка, Наталки Талиманчук, Іванни Савицької, Уляни Кравченко, Яни Яковенко, Василя Симоненка, Івана Франка, Володимира Сосюри, Катерини Перелісної, Богдана-Ігоря Антонича, Марійки Підгірянки, Миколи Чернявського, Володимира Сіренка, Іванни Блажкевич, Грицька Бойка, Миколи Вінграновського, Платона Воронька, Наталі Забіли, Анатолія Камінчука, Анатолія Качана, Володимира Коломійця, Тамари Коломієць, Ліни Костенко, Андрія Малишка, Андрія М’ястківського, Івана Неходи, Бориса Олійника, Дмитра Павличка, Максима Рильського, Вадима Скомаровського, Сосюра Володимир, Павла Тичини, Петра Осадчука, Варвари Гринько та інших відомих українських поетів.