On this video: Irpin before 24.02.2022.
Kurama
(Japan)
POETS IN IRPIN
Irpin is on the doorstep of Kyiv.
A haven for families before the war.
In a red coat for four weeks.
In a street of the leafy town.
Lying where she’d been trampled once.
Under the wheels of ‘orcs’ armoured vehicles.
In a red coat for four weeks.
Not once but over and over again.
From her hands, she seemed very young.
A handwritten shopping list in her purse.
An older man’s body on the other side of the street.
From his age, he could have been her dad.
Irpin is on the doorstep of Kyiv.
A haven for families before the war.
"I heard shots in the middle of March.
Beneath the windows of my flat."
"Every morning for over two weeks.
I came to my window to check if.”
“Then every time I looked from my window.
After shelling I saw her again.”
“I knew nothing about her.
But my heart was broken."
In a building on Pushkinska St.
There was nothing she could do.
Rather than leave her home again.
She decided to stay where she was.
She’d fled her home in eastern Ukraine.
When war broke out in 2014.
Irpin is on the doorstep of Kyiv.
A haven for families before the war.
“I never thought I would live.”
A young territorial defence recruit.
“On our third day we heard a whistle.
And ‘orcs’ started to bomb us directly.
We sat in the basement and the ceiling started to crumble.
We were pretty scared.”
“It's still not safe here, but in due time we’ll rebuild.
Probably it will take years.”
“I’m trying not to think about the fact.
Every house destroyed was built by someone.”
“I’m trying not to think about the fact.
Sometimes it was built with their own hands.”
“I hate ‘orcs’ from the depths of my heart.
There are no excuses for this.”
Irpin is on the doorstep of Kyiv.
A haven for families before the war.
Source: https://www.koryu-meets-chess.info/
On this video: Irpin after the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
Irpin: Russia's reign of terror in a quiet neighbourhood near Kyiv — BBC News
Battle for Irpin: Russian forces pushed out of Kyiv suburb — 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.