#haikuhorrorprompt
#war
#InMemorium
#Belarus
#Soldier
#Warrior
#Neverforget
#MariaZaitseva
#InternationalLegion

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standing on a mine—
colleagues see you are jinxed

Emma, I never met you,
It hit me
Just now, that
I guess I never will

Oh I remember Bakhmut,
It got too tough to stay, but you stayed put,
Fire scorching your hair,
Explosions deafening
In almost continuous roar,
Acrid smoke in the air,
The tears, the dead,
Head shellshocked,
Permanent buzzing in the ears—

And then Bakhmut got you, too,
While checking for those still there,
As always, one more time—
Emma, you never had a nobler cause, true to your soul

Am so proud of Saudi Arabia. Sure, it's a country with a long way to go, and maybe longer to come back from, but not everywhere is milk and honey, in fact everywhere isn't.

It is a country of hospitality, humour and golden desert sands, where bedouins share tea, and coffee brewed at dawn in the quiet, morning air and sunset never lingers, while conversation laughs long into the night.

It is, in many ways, the right country to start the peace process to remove the Ruscist scourge from Ukraine.

popular in ukraine—
buy one while stocks last
something for the children
a real blast

imagine
having to give one
to your son or daughter
for when under fallen mortar

I never want to hear a whistle blow again
to have to dig, as fast as I can
whistle blowing, blowing weaker