Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 11, No. 3: CLRI August 2024

Vyacheslav Konoval

Dozens of civilians die every day

Dozens of civilians are dying

to the sounds of loud sirens,

houses are engulfed in flames,

photos of the nearby rusty antennas.

The earth groans, freed from the masses,

once carrying the streams to the sea,

dozens of old grimaces drowned,

The Kahovka disaster is a new national grief.

You fall asleep alive,

the alarm cries by a siren,

God save me from the rocket tonight

let my leg not fall in the gangrenous.

The creaking bench will receive you hospitably

The creaking bench will receive hospitably,

she is besieged by old chestnuts,

you sit silently, meditating innocently,

about the eternal duel between good and all-powerful evil.

Some of us die at the front,

and someone, hiding is stealing a millions.

Someone will help a little how can.

For some, money is like those promotional coupons.

The main speaker tells fables,

the owner of the villa carries lies,

a young man with the habits of an old man.

He is a pet of the system that everyone wants.

Here is a tall boar walking along the beach,

everyone knows him as the former owner of state property,

he fled cowardly to Austrian affairs,

a boar goes there and tastes ice cream for free.

There are many such figures

in power from the bottom to the top,

and many executioners among them,

a queue is formed to steal money.

What kind of state will be tomorrow?

If there are enough thieves in it.

I take my hat off to the righteous today.

 

About the author: Vyacheslav is a Ukrainian poet whose work is devoted to the most pressing social problems of our time, such as poverty, ecology, relations between the people and the government, and war. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Anarchy Anthology Archive, International Poetry Anthology, Literary Waves Publishing, Sparks of Kaliopa, Reach of the Song 2022, Diogenes for Culture Journal, among others. Vyacheslav's poems were translated into Spanish, French, Scottish, Italian, and Polish languages. His poems also have been read at meetings of various poetry groups.
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