Haiku and photos
Winter
Interminable queues
of displaced people—
blizzard-ridden road
Mother and baby
carried off by the attacks—
trampled winter roses
War turns gentle siblings
into crazed soldiers—
a frozen battlefield
Soldiers loot,
for their loved ones…
furious snowstorm
A doll in red
on a muddy snowmelt road —
immobilized tanks
Raging winter rain
to the ashen landscape—
endless tears
Evacuees’ singing
echoes through the frozen air—
the Snow Queen’s “Let it go”
Spring
The spring sun
to both Ukraine and Russia—
more tears, more sorrows
Even plant buds
have been scorched—
silent devastation
Spring rain—
the shattered dreams of
a young soldier
New grass time and again
trampled down—
yet still it keeps growing
Sunflower seeds
sown in a battlefield—
longing for summer
And… again, winter
Soldiers’ mums
stand against the Ukraine war—
winter comes again
Chess pieces
Scattered on a snowy road—
the battles continue
New Year’s greetings
from the battlefield…
smiles and tears
On a New Year ’s Day—
a white pigeon takes off
towards a rainbow
