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“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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Paula Goldsmith

Date: 3/24/2022 1:55:00 PM

I love your "“Sunflowers”" write and picture. Both so beautiful. It is all so very sad. I wish it was over so they could rebuild. I hope you are OK. Have a great/blessed day................

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/24/2022 3:20:00 PM

Yes it is the World's shame at this point. I am ok, although some might debate that ...:). I trust you are doing okay over there. At least, I am safe in Australia, I am not in Meriupol - however, it is like a hole has been blasted inside me somewhere. It is hard for me to write about any other topic at present, as it has consumed me. I worry for everyone over there and in the world , but most of all I worry for the children. So many children in Ukraine now, have been torn from their families along with the multitudes already orphaned prior to the Ukraine/Russian war, have been uprooted and trafficked or will be trafficked and harmed psychologically, physically and mortally by what they have experienced and seen in this war.