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Two tanka recently published in Red Lights,
Volume 18, no. 2, June 2022
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with ruins, rubble
and death on the news,
we learn their names—
Mariupol & Lviv,
Bucha and Donbas
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image after image of
bombed out buildings and corpses –
far away in my corner, prayers
& more prayers that you will
always rise from the ashes
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Image by bookdragon from Pixabay
A Poet in Time 
two deeply moving poems. Thank you.
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Thank you. 🕊
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Yes.
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Dear Mary,
Thank you for your Ukraine poems. Here in my “corner” in Australia, as I read them, a new day dawning out the kitchen window, my eyes well-up as do my prayers.
In remote friendship, Fran
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Thanks, Fran, for your beautiful comment. I pray for them daily. 🕊
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