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Excerpt from "Ukraine War in Poetry" http://instagram.com/dnewland2022 “Ode to a Comedian” To Volodymyr Zelensky President of Ukraine So, they say you were a comedian, All of a sudden became president, Yet what you are doing is no jokes, But a lesson for the world to learn. While many would have flown the coop, You are staying with your troops, This globe would have been different, If there’d been more as you so good. Running a country so tiny, Invaded by a ruthless enemy, De

“This is Not a War!” Just so you all know, I may be killing people, But it’s not in a war, It’s a favor I bestow. To Ukraine I send troops, Commanded by generals, With tanks, rockets and mortars. But no, this is not a war! My bombers drop bombs, My soldiers shoot people, Tanks level homes and stores, Schools and churches, and more, But no, this is not a war! Missiles are fired at theater, Where kids, women take shelter, Kill them by hundreds and more. But no, this is not a wa

“Why?” (Russia’s War Crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, According to News Reports) I never want to ask God why, For I can’t count all the ways, That I may not get a reply, This time I’ll ask anyway. Take Bucha, where women are raped, As tears drown their children’s faces, Men with hands tied, bullets in skulls. I really would like to know why. Burned bodies stacked up in piles, Blackened hands begging for life, Faces twisted in pain of torture. I really would like to know why. One bod

Please read "New Art of War" attached “New Art of War” “Shock and awe” has failed, Bombers been shot down, Warships too been drowned. New tactic must be found! Mariupol I cordon, Water lines I then cut off, All meat and wheat I burn Let’s see to what they turn. Food trucks come to the gate, My troops kick them away This new strategy is best; I’ll just starve them to death. I’ll just sit back and wait, For women, children to beg, On weak limbs, they genuflect Here is our town,