Long Ukrainian Poems
Long Ukrainian Poems. Below are the most popular long Ukrainian by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ukrainian poems by poem length and keyword.
Blue Sky, Why
"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet children,
now war torn,
some the battle's orphans,
daily lose their lives
lying in their sick beds
bombed in...
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Categories:
ukrainian, courage, humanity, leadership, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Narrative
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
ukrainian, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and PerestroikaWhatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely
experience bitterness at the...
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Categories:
ukrainian, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful, betrayal, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...
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Categories:
ukrainian, abuse, age, anger, bereavement, bullying, corruption, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
Glory To the Ukrainian Freedom FightersGlory to the Ukranian Freedom Fighters
Democracy and freedom are under attack
Beaurocracy and greed man,
Don’t let this war criminal come back
Putin is lootin’ the streets of Ukraine
His crimes against humanity are bordering on insane
His unprovoked aggression...
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Categories:
ukrainian, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and PerestroikaWhatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely
experience bitterness at the...
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Categories:
ukrainian, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence, destiny, grave, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, UsurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.
Impossible mission to comprehend
the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,
indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self anointed totalitarian zealot.
Gross violation of human rights
blatantly carried out
courtesy diabolical...
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Categories:
ukrainian, abuse, anger, conflict, death, discrimination, evil, hate,
Form:
Free verse
ukrainian regretsThere was poetry,
In the open fields,
On the slanted blueberries,
On the skirts of schoolgirls,
There was poetry,
In the sunny cupboards,
In the quiet gardens,
In the sweet air of spring,
There was some poetry
In the caressing hands,
In the chalk of...
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Categories:
ukrainian, poetry, war,
Form:
Free verse
No CompromiseNO COMPROMISE
If we were to take just three countries, Afghanistan, Syria, and now Ukraine, where there is still an answer for Syria, and Ukraine
First Afghanistan to which at the moment is it to late,...
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Categories:
ukrainian, conflict, how i feel, proposal,
Form:
Haibun
Sunflowers
“Sunflowers”
She planted the seeds
in their minds
that perhaps
something of beauty
could come from the bad time
could grow there
in their dead pockets
spreading like wildfire
futile men in their beds of disarray
across the battlefields of Magog
Sunflowers
faces turned...
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Categories:
ukrainian, humanity, peace, war,
Form:
Free verse
Me very late mum, a funereal dayMe very late mum, a funereal day...
courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian,
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.
Another anniversary of her death occurs
upon advent of
May fourth two thousand and five,
not quite seventy years since her...
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Categories:
ukrainian, absence, age, america, anniversary, atheist, birth, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks IXLimericks IX
Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch
The world’s first antinatalist limerick?
Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In the dark of the night,
In the end what remains from...
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Categories:
ukrainian, fire, giggle, humor, humorous, life, light, nonsense,
Form:
Limerick
Ukraine PoemsThese are poems for Ukraine and Ukrainians.
We Are Here
by Michael R. Burch
“We are here.” – Volodymyr Zelensky
We are here. Were are here.
And we won’t disappear.
We are here. We are here. We are here.
We are...
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Categories:
ukrainian, butterfly, child, children, conflict, mother, urban, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Sappho's LullabySappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep unaware of the nightingale's call
while the dew-laden lilies lie
listening,
glistening...
this is their night, the first night of fall.
Son, tonight, a woman awaits...
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Categories:
ukrainian, desire, Lullaby, moon, mother son, night, song,
Form:
Lyric
Ber Horvitz Translations of Holocaust PoemsTranslations of Holocaust poems by Ber Horvitz aka Ber Horowitz
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray ...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes.
The birds have...
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Categories:
ukrainian, holocaust, horror, race, racism, violence, war, world
Form:
Verse
Trump Poems and Epigrams VTrump poems and epigrams V
The prez should be above the law, he sez,
even though he’s no longer prez.
—Michael R. Burch
Mercedes Benz
by Michael R. Burch
I'd like to do a song of great social and political import....
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Categories:
ukrainian, america, political, presidents day, today, usa,
Form:
Epigram
Gratitude by Max Burchett"The gift I got was a lesson of life about gratitude, friendship, and more I was taught." Gratitude poem by Max Burchett
by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett
I once received a gift
Not much did it cost.
For me no...
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Categories:
ukrainian, friend, friendship, giving, humanity, life, poverty, war,
Form:
Lyric
A Ukraine Soldier and Russian Soldier Are TransformedThis story tells the reality of the Ukrainian, Russian war. Not all Russian Soldiers want to be there but are forced by their Russian Commanders to fight. This is such a story, the ending...
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Categories:
ukrainian, christian, death, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Has World War 111 Begun In Europe Part OneThere is at least one USA politician in Congress that believes, "World War 111 is happening in Europe!" And yet the USA and the rest of NATO are offering no military support to Ukraine because...
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Categories:
ukrainian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
The Winds of War Part FourUkraine is not being fully supported by Europe because Russia has been putting pressure on it. Because Russia has threatened Germany, they are only sending Ukraine 12,000 helmets and what good will that do!...
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Categories:
ukrainian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
A Ukrainian Mother Cries OutPicture in your mind, a 70 year old mother and grandmother, hitchhiking from her village into a war shattered town of Bucha, desperately looking for her son's dead body. Wanting to bring his body home...
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Categories:
ukrainian, farewell, grave, heartbroken, heaven, jesus, mother, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
The New Axis of Evil Part OneMore than seventy years ago, during WW 11, the original Axis of evil nations first existed.
It was the nations of Germany and of Japan that spear headed that former Axis of evil nations. Concerning the...
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Categories:
ukrainian, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Putin's Great BlunderPutin said he wouldn't invade, but then he's known for his lies
So when he sent in his murdering scum, it came as no surprise
It will go down in the annals of history, as Putin's...
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Categories:
ukrainian, america, death, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Sneaking a President To KyivSneaking A President On Presidents Day
Sneaking President Biden to Kyiv without anyone noticing, sounds like something out of a movie. It really happened. He arrived in Kyiv on a surprise visit, signaling 'unflagging...
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Categories:
ukrainian, presidents day,
Form:
Free verse
Hockey TimeYou know that summertime is gone
when a chill is in the air
when snow is in the forecast
and hockey sticks appear
when kids with toques and earmuffs
show up on every street
stick-handling wayward tennis balls
on tar and on...
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Categories:
ukrainian, sports,
Form:
Blank verse