by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor

“Putin began a war against Ukraine, and against the entire democratic world. He wants to destroy our country, and everything we have been building. But we know the strength of the Ukrainian people.”

– Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine

“Let each of us if you’re able to stand, stand and send an unmistakable signal to Ukraine and to the world.”

– Joe Biden, U.S. President

To read Irene’s poem “Putin: The Bloody Tyrant” click:

 Putin: The Bloody Tyrant

by Irene Fowler

Putin: Narcissist-Cruel-Bloodsucker, is thy dreaded, ill-famed name
You portray a corrupted, addled mind; fatally feral and deranged
And blanket humanity with venality, terror and gory shame
Your place in history, reserved, for the diabolical-criminal-insane.

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Toy-General, pitiless-leader, master-fraudster
Lawless-one, corrupter-in-chief, crime-boss
Geo-architect of irreparable, costly, and deadly global loss
Thou abhor, ridicule, that which is noble, true and just.

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Hence; hissing, seething, venomous, vipers vibrate their rattlers
Drum beats of war reverberate; warnings of vicious, bloody battle
Manifold alerts, alarms, and sirens, blare and blast
The doves of peace and quiet; for now lassoed and latched.

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Shrieks, wails, cries, and heavy sighs
How many precious, innocent bodies have to die
Unjust war; making of life and light, a charade, sham, and lie
While the unlit, pitch-dark nights of the soul, mock yesteryear’s lullabies.

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Hurry! make haste to the buses and trains
Flee! ride away from the fearful sights and bloodstains
Loved one’s, past lives, and creature comforts, left behind; forcibly jettisoned
Take heed! life is fickle, capricious; tis a cruel, harsh, unwelcome lesson.

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Putin: You threaten, menace, the world with the nuclear button
Of a truth, evidence thou art through and through; loathsome, rotten
Humanity abides, side by side, with a besieged, brave, sovereign Ukraine
FREE UKRAYINA! Our justified, strong and ceaseless; universal refrain.

© 2022 by Irene Fowler