Benefactor robinjojo Posted July 3, 2023 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted July 3, 2023 Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian writer and poet, died on July 1 from wounds sustained from the Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk last week on a restaurant she was in with some colleagues. Here's one of her poems, inspired by her work interviewing women who lived through Russian occupation. Poem About a Crow In a barren springtime field Stands a woman dressed in black Crying her sisters’ names Like a bird in the empty sky She’ll cry them all out of herself The one that flew away too soon The one that had begged to die The one that couldn’t stop death The one that has not stopped waiting The one that has not stopped believing The one that still grieves in silence She’ll cry them all into the ground As though sowing the field with pain And from pain and the names of women Her new sisters will grow from the earth And again will sing joyfully of life But what about her, the crow? She will stay in this field forever Because only this cry of hers Holds all those swallows in the air Do you hear how she calls Each one by her name? 9 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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