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 upwards
waving towards their God
silently saluting
blue and gold
seeking the 1
to Light the way
ancient stories
approaching
closer
day by day
(LadyLabyrinth/ 2022)
“Ukrainian woman confronts invading Russian soldier” / News.com
https://youtu.be/PJJ8zmcBH2A
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukraine, Poet Laureate)
“MY TESTAMENT” -
When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnieper's plunging shore `
My eyes could see, my ears could hear
The mighty river roar.
When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears
Into the deep blue sea
The blood of foes ... then will I leave
These hills and fertile fields —
I'll leave them all and fly away
To the abode of God,
And then I'll pray .... But till that day
I nothing know of God.
Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
Remember also me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko
Sunflowers
https://symbolhunt.com/ukraine/national-flower/
Coat of Arms Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ukraine
Flag of Ukraine / History
https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Ukraine
Gog and Magog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog
Magog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magog_(Bible)
"Josephus refers to Magog son of Japheth as progenitor of Scythians, or peoples north of the Black Sea"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japhetites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2022/february/are-we-living-in-the-biblical-end-times-what-scripture-says-about-gog-magog-and-russian-chaos
Ezekiel 38 (NIV)
Matthew 24:6-8 (NIV)
Israel/Ukraine/Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/27/ukraine-israel-russia-negotiations/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-israel-is-having-trouble-picking-sides-in-russias-war-on-ukraine/
1 true word
“LOVE” / Peace
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