In Search of Ukraine

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Heroes, Ukraine, War / March 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A country to be a country
must have its heroes and its stories

One need not look past recent weeks
for a hero calling forth the hero in all

As for stories of stories I invite you
to the picture of Taras Schevchenko
In place of honor in most every home

Born into the slavery of serfdom
the skill of his art gained him freedom
a freedom which he also wished
for his family and for his country
and wrote verses to their worthiness

A step that won him ten years on the steppes
and a No pens or paper order from the Tsar

And still he wrote, and somehow shared
so that, on the banks of the Dnieper in 1861
his friend Mikhaylo Chaly could say in eulogy
The poetry of Shevchenco
has won for us the right of literary citizenship

Solidarity and support for Ukraine on the one month anniversary of the Russian onslaught.

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