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JIYU-SHI Japanese Poetic Form
One Thousand Cranes
: Twenty-Five Hundred by Gypsy Blue Rose
In Honor of the Ukrainians and Worldwide Mercenaries Soldiers Fighting the Russians


Two Neptune missiles  
charged in the dismal Black Sea
 

hit Russian Moskva 
aiming to sink fast and deep
 

with sailors and all  
into the ocean, was sunk 

twenty-five hundred 
soldiers that never gave up 

they stood for freedom  
willing to die for their land 

they had fought so well 
avoiding the jaws of death

where life is true hell 
as brave soldiers plunged ahead 

twenty-five hundred 
souls stood for bombed motherland 

mid childless mothers 
and dead men with bounded hands 

in the raped seaports 
the hazy ashen smoke rose
 

swallowed Russians horde 
that killed many valiant men
 

who were outnumbered
but all with honor did fight



 


 

 

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Author Notes
*It's hard to tell how many Ukrainian soldiers have died because many have disappeared.

"Half a league, half a league/Half a league onward/All in the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred/Forward, the Light Brigade!/Charge for the guns!/he said/Into the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred....." --The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- click here to read the complete poem

My poem was inspired by the Russia and Ukraine War of 2022 and the similarities with the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856. for more info on Crimean War click here

The Russian soldiers' siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has culminated in the last stand by 2,500 Ukrainian troops, including 400 foreign mercenaries, who are outnumbered six to one. Regardless, the brave Ukrainian soldiers vow to fight to the end and not surrender. Recently, the Ukrainian troops sunk Russia's most important warship, the Moskva. Russians didn't take it well. to read the New York Times article click here

The CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE on October 25, 1854, was a disastrous British cavalry charge against heavily defended Russian troops at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (1853-56). The suicidal attack was made famous by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his 1855 poem of the same name.
Poem: The Charge of the Light Brigade BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
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JIYU-SHI (means freestyle) is a Japanese freestyle poetry introduced to American poetry between 1912 to 1926. The only rule is to write in 5/7 stanzas, you can write as many stanzas as you like. I recommend keeping complete thoughts in each line and connecting the lines grammatically for excellent flow. click here to read more

Thank you very much for taking the time to read and review my poem.

Gypsy

     

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