written on the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
news after news
of death from the war
an ocean away
a boy's stare at the camera
interpellating me
Added: Protests marking the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
the T-72 tank covered
with rust and moss
an old man
blasts a siren at 3 am
a skull
on the blood-stained cake
Russian Embassy (in Belgrade)
the Eiffel Tower
lit in blue and yellow
Russian Embassy (in Paris)
Added:
one year on
in the world of snow on snow
blue and yellow flowers
at Taras Shevchenko's statue
in Saint Petersburg
FYI: Taras Shevchenko was the best known 19th century Ukrainian poet ad fighter for the independence of Ukraine and the freedom of all mankind. Of many monuments/statues built for him around the world, The first one in Russia was unveiled in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) on December 1, 1918.
The inscription says: "To the great Ukrainian poet-peasant T. G. Shevchenko (1814 - 1861) from the great Russian nation."
And ABC News, Feb. 24: Russians mark Ukraine war anniversary with flowers, arrests:
Russians in Moscow and other cities brought flowers to Ukrainian poets and held one-person pickets with antiwar slogans to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.