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🌻Poems For The People Of Ukraine From The People Of The World🌻
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🌻Poems For The People Of Ukraine From The People Of The World🌻

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🌻🌻🌻 THIS POST IS REGULARLY UPDATED 🌻🌻🌻

We have a friend in Ukraine. Her name is Alyona Plotnikova. Despite the 8,243 km distance, she knows so much about Malaysia because she has many Malaysian friends.

We’re in touch with her on a daily basis, constantly asking if she and her family are doing alright, and consistently sending poems to her via Facebook Messenger.But there’s a small problem: We’re running out of poems.

If you have any poems or art centered on the themes of hope, peace, love, and courage, please email them to [email protected] or submit them directly and we’ll send them to our dear friend, Alyona so that she may read them aloud to her fellow Ukrainians to uplift their spirits.

🌻🌻🌻 #PoemsForUkraine #NoToWar 🌻🌻🌻


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art for ukraine
Kids from Wiz Kids Extended Care in Kuching share their artworks for the people of Ukraine. “We decided to make a symbol of peace for Ukraine in response to what is going on there. We created pictures of doves using colourful scrap papers, used food wrappers, mask wrappers, gift wrappers, magazine cuttings, etc. We would like to share with your friend and her friends and family especially the children so they would feel encouraged that we are supporting them in prayers and love,” Angelina Bong explains. Image by Angelina Bong.

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Dedicated to the people of Ukraine:

I yearn to be with you

To walk with you into the unknown

To face it together with courage, with trust

To hold you in warm arms

To give you a warm fire’s safety

To delight you with many kisses and embraces.

Though I am here and you are there

I am with you

We are together in the broken heart of sadness

We will always be together in our broken-hearted world.

What else to do but feel, let go, open, open, open

To each other, to our broken heart of sadness.

– Joan Whitacre


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Courage

Let it so be

Even if this destiny seems to lead

Only to desolation

Somewhat greater despair

Than what was before

There will be no regrets

Evermore no turning back

Hope has never worn thin

Despite the longest bend of road

And greater nobility lingers yet

To make for heroic tales

That will one day be told

And so, on the journey goes

Endless as it may seem

The determination that girds the weary traveller

Keeps the soul from growing old

And each battle of the unexpected

Brings the heart closer to home

As unseen observers stare enthralled

At these unparalleled victories of present day

But this hour will pass

And I will stand steady

As I hope you will

Courage, dear friend.

– Susanna Khoo


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Art for Ukraine by Color Nice.
Art for Ukraine by Color Nice.

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Hope

Dream a million dreams tonight

While rest falls upon your eyes

For better moments yet to come

To cast light upon despondencies

And champion heroes unsung

If only to be free of fears unspoken

To expectantly greet the beckoning dawn

Wistful yet ever aware

Of the resonant realities

But faith does not desert us here

Beyond these towering shadows

Lies our alternate ending

While we live, there is yet hope

– Susanna Khoo

 


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Sunflowers

The world watches in horror

Ukrainians fleeing in terror

Escaping from dusk to dawn

The plunderings by a madman,

Obsessively clinging on

Like an old, toxic friend

Overhead I hear the warplanes

Above the sunflower plains

They shine the brightest gold.

The resistance, brave and bold

Waving blue and yellow high

Fighting without a single ally.

Amidst the military clashes,

Sunflowers rise from the ashes.

The people may feel the strain

But they will and are rising up again.

May Ukraine reclaim its sovereignty

Write its own history

Once again, a free country!

– Emelyn Lee


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Art for Ukraine by Anna Yong
Art by a 4-year-old Anna Yong. “I have taught my niece about the news with current war situations, sunflower & its flag, so she drew up this small piece of artwork & wishing for peace to the country. I have added on with the word “peace” We don’t have a scanner at home, so I took a photo of the artwork,” Sienny Yong says.

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Grandstand

Men in power make grand

plans

It makes them feel

grand

They’ve got to grandstand

All the women and men

Die on their command

The blood’s not from their hand

We’ll never understand

How they can

But we will always feel it

But they

Can’t.

– Ista Kyra

 


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Hope

She buried her grandparents

Then had to follow them underground, still breathing

A sign of the times when the sun shines over the dead

And the living hide beneath bunker beds

But good neighbors keep watching

5,125 miles away but we’re not forgetting

we’re praying and hoping

you stay strong, keep it up and keep it on,

for your sons and daughters

mothers and fathers

brothers and sisters

we’ll hold each other up

keep our hopes up

the sun will shine again

as sure as the living will smile again

And the victor is not the one who takes up arms

But the ones who linked hearts.

– Ista Kyra

 


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Ukrainians Live Without Regret

When people have the right
The might within themselves
To do according to daylight.
The flag firmly does fly,
The colours are blue and yellow, so true.
Untarnished by ill-will
Where loving the neighbours
Has never been a rue
In this era of cooperation
Ukraine advances with
hope, peace, love, and courage
United in responsibility with the
World to maintain the proper and fair exchange between each other.
Where today, the sovereignty of a people
Never be given away
To the rage of a bully.
Long Live, Ukraine!

– Kamini K Arichandran, Malaysia


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Art for Ukraine by Lisa Ng
Art by Lisa Ng.

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A Call for Peace

I see skies of yellow and blue,
Covered with smoke and rain of ashes.
People swimming in ruined grounds.
Frightened, worried, and uneasy.
When will it come to an end?

Its beauty is tormented by blazing flames.
With roaring missiles and gunshots,
Blooming trees and flowers turned to gray.
Colder than the midst of winter.
The world will never be the same again.

Armed men in camouflage suits,
Fighting for their beloved home.
Children wailing in their mother’s arms,
Not knowing what their future holds.
How much lives will be sacrificed?

In our hearts, we held the most powerful defense.
Stronger than any nuclear weapons.
It is the love of God from heaven.
Listening to our cries and broken souls.
He will heal this planet Earth.

I see skies of yellow and blue,
A free and peaceful country.
You are not alone in your darkest hour.
Endless prayers for a brighter tomorrow.
Be strong and have faith, God will prevail.

– Ma. Angelica Gaceta, Philippines

 


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Ukraine

Though war upon rains
The spirit of your people rise
We are at helpless awe
Inspired horror
Rooting for the warrior
That you are
Ukraine
May you reign Free
Of Putin’s tyranny

– Sky Lark Crow


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Screenshot from Twitter. Poem by @ajlawauthor

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Who Caught Your Laughter

Who caught your laughter

At the throat

And crushed it in a vice?

Who caught the dreaming

In your eyes

And shuttered it in a void?

Who

Ripped

Your heart

And made you raging Kali?

These are not my questions;
We both know the answers.

I will not also ask:

Why did you enable him

Through the days weeks years

Why did you allow

The silence of the victim

To speak your only role

I will not ask that either

For you and I know

The sinews of invisible prisons

Draw their strength from a thousand-year history.

I will ask this:

Now that you are finally free

Why do you bind him to your back

And watch him smash your skull?

Why do you let him

Still

Infect

Your waking breaths?

In perpetual motion

Your Kali destroys herself;

Your Kali dances

Intoxicated by grief;

Your Kali rages

Sorrow into bloodlust.

We learned from the womb:

When the goddess Kali

Vanquished the demons

She couldn’t stop her dance

And when her wrath

Threatened

The entire universe

Her Shiva stepped before his beloved

And lay on her path

Complete in his knowing of them in her

You have no Shiva, you think,

To stop your dismantling –

You have no Shiva, you think

To vanish your pain

Caught in the lie
That we can’t do it both ways –

You are Kali.

You are Shiva.

You

Are

Shiva.

– Saras Manickam, a writer 

 

 

 


 

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The Real Leader

One man who claims to be a world leader,
Sits in his air-conditioned palace,
Ordering bombs to fall,
To a city located 875km away,
As one leader who claims he’s just human,
Wears a vest and lifts his gun,
The bombs fall and fall they do,
Yet they only bring the world closer,
A lot closer to one another.

– Sukhbir Cheema

 


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Art by Kopi Soh
Healing art by Malaysian artist, Kopi Soh.

 


 

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Valiance in the Face of Darkness: We Stand with Ukraine

The skies grow dark

They hear a song-less lark

Flap its wings

And can’t help but think

‘Bring me his sins’

Florid and lurid

Aberrant and crooked

The sins of a man

Who begat a plan

To incinerate a land

The skies grow dark

And they fearlessly rally

Every hallway, every alley

Every nook, every cranny

Fortitudinous and valiant

Oh, those young combatants!

Hushed in a valley

Embraced by artillery

Ready to fuckin’ sully

The sins

Of a beast

In the guise of a man

Whose anathema began

As the skies grew dark

– Karisshma Kaur, Malaysia 

 

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What messages of peace, love, courage, and hope do you have for the people of Ukraine? Send your poems, koans, artworks, and even words of encouragement here. We update this post on a regular basis. 

Saras Manickam Karisshma Kaur Kopi Soh Sukhbir Cheema

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