Cry, My Beloved Kyiv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF EGH EEIJ HKKE LMLE MNE MO KMMKKE| bring back the blue skies | A |
| coloured red | B |
| by rages of bloody wars | C |
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| bring back the shiny sun | D |
| made pale by weary plumes | E |
| of greedy need | F |
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| so my heart can meet with your's | E |
| bickering aside | G |
| division away | H |
| - | |
| so our children can play in winter's hands | E |
| and sunny haze | E |
| oblivious of the masquerade | I |
| ghosts steering behind | J |
| - | |
| so that we can display | H |
| our beauty | K |
| fairly and squarely | K |
| in our once safe streets | E |
| - | |
| o tell me it's a dream | L |
| we wake to another world | M |
| another reality realer than dream | L |
| patched up in Kyiv hills | E |
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| like another life unlived | M |
| we dance to unfamiliar song | N |
| sad one in Babylonian rivers | E |
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| like white stallions stumping around | M |
| in the southern plains of Ukraine | O |
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| will stones direct our paths from city to sea | K |
| and in whispers decree our creed | M |
| in secret | M |
| that holds the fishes in harmony | K |
| and restore our reality | K |
| in fine lines of peace | E |
Ifeanyichukwu Onwughalu
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 03/04/2022
Poet's note: The conflict raging in Ukraine is uncalled for. It is a beautiful country undeserving on war.
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