
Confession of a poet after a year of war
If you think of yourself as a poet or a poetess and you are considering taking this path seriously, most likely sooner or later you will ask yourself this question: what can I do for poetry?
Yesterday was one of the most disappointing days in the past 10. We stand alone.
Despite pleading for days to NATO to cover our skies, our “friends” said no.
President Zelensky said it right: the blood of Ukrainian civilians is now on the hands of the West’s weak leaders. He expressed hope that these same leaders would be capable of defending their own countries when (not if) the Russian invader comes knocking. In the meantime Ukrainians will defend “our common European home”, and will forever remember that in our hour of greatest need, our “friends” choked.
NATO leaders fear that their planes will be forced to engage Russian aircraft in the skies over Ukraine. Supposedly this might cause nuclear war.
I have some news for you: your countries are already at war. Yesterday, you could have won this war without risking your armies or populations. You chose the path of greater death.
Putin will lose in Ukraine. Occupying a country where civilians stop invading tanks with their bodies, and hundreds gather in town centers to face armed invaders with flags (and refuse to move even when shot at) cannot be occupied.
When losses in Ukraine become obvious even to Russians, Putin will escalate. And then NATO will be engaged not of its own initiative, but of his. Then the casualties will be yours.
In the meantime, Ukrainian cities will continue to be destroyed by Russian rockets falling from the sky.
We stand alone.
* Thoughts from Kyiv is a series of flash essays by Mychailo Wynnyckyj from February 2022
Author: Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Social Scientist, Public Intellectual. Academic Development Officer, Professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Illustration: Olga Protasova, plasticine panel fragment
Content Editor: Maryna Korchaka
Programme Directors: Julia Ovcharenko and Demyan Om Dyakov Slavitsky
If you think of yourself as a poet or a poetess and you are considering taking this path seriously, most likely sooner or later you will ask yourself this question: what can I do for poetry?
Few weeks ago (mid January it was)* I took part in a writer’s conference with other international writers in Kolkata, India. It was a panel discussion addressing the topic of “Writing for the post-pandemic world”.
The morning begins with a final farewell to a soldier in our yard. He died in the war. A message about this appeared in the neighbor chat yesterday, indicating the building number and the entrance. High-rise buildings, just like low-rise ones, can’t avoid loss in wartime. There are more than 800 apartments in our building. Is there at least one unaffected by the war?
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