Immediate Ceasefire!
Considering all.
His “propaganda bubble.”
Must not sustain him.
Putin as warlord must fall.
The West must consolidate.
NATO as defense.
Must engage all their allies.
To holdback Russia.
The stakes of nuclear war.
Must thus be countermanded.
Ukraine’s sovereign claim.
Accord of Twenty Fifteen.
Is historical.
A pact in February.
And the Minsk II Agreement.
Russian aggression.
Against a sovereign nation.
Targeted Ukraine.
Day of Innocent Children.
Slaughtered so mercilessly.
Day of Remembrance.
In freedom-loving Ukraine.
On the Fourth of June.
Of all the children who died.
In the year Twenty Sixteen.
Twenty Twenty Two.
In the sovereign state Ukraine.
Warfare strikes again.
Crimea is a target.
Again children are slaughtered.
At time of writing.
A “Technical Pause “ declared.
By two sovereign states.
Each seeking to “save faces.”
With sanctions against Russia.
With Peace Talks resumed.
“Immediate Ceasefire.”
Is the world’s object.
Withdrawal of Russian troops.
And peace with neighboring states.
To sustain the peace.
Discussions must continue.
Russia and Ukraine.
Human Rights must be preserved.
For all engaged in warfare.
Children in warfare.
Are the most vulnerable.
Women too — mothers.
This poem is an appeal:
“Immediate Ceasefire!”
About this poem
On the eve of The Ides of March, this poem makes an urgent soulful plea for immediate ceasefire in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Lord, have mercy on us. Lord, hear our prayers!
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Written on March 14, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on March 14, 2022
Modified on April 24, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,282 |
Words | 250 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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