[World Inker II]

A sextet is a group of six. You may write poems composed of six lines on the ongoing conflicts worldwide, including Ukraine and the Rohingya genocide among others. To start the conversation, I share my sextet.

War Child

we are unaware of our standing

when your smile is silent,

such silence is bitter as wormwood

and deeper than dark woods.

how can we save the spirit

of your beauty without you?

[Melissa Chappell]

Dustin, Thank you for this movini:g and poignant poem about which so many are forgetting or have already forgotten
I love the title War Child as it demonstrates the tragic clash between innocence and the catastrophe that belongs to a not-so-innocent world.

[webmaster]

The Donbas Conquest

Toed away from blurry sky;
To our kins, we bid goodbye
As we left the white kolas
On the soil of doomed Donbas…

Dreadful rain and thunderstorms
Weed away our wheat and corns…

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