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The rinsed fences dry themselves in the wind.
The kneaded black earth turns softer under my feet.
Soaked soil, tousled and wanton wind,
What more can I want from you today?
It seems to me that I’ve…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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The whole day
In the roads’ realm
The whole day
Facing only wind
Just a narrow ditch between road and shoulder
Just young lids between sun and eye
What in the world
Can be more beautiful?
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Contributor:
Dovid Hofshteyn
Places:
Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1925
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This is a night of vigil for me,
in the shudder of my soul
I shall conceal
the secret of my youth.
I shall stand on guard:
No sleep nor slumber!
And in just one moment
the veil was taken away.
A…
Contributor:
Bat-Hamah
Places:
Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1954
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Day grows darker
And darker.
Mobs are advancing on the town,
Mobs clotted with blood,
Made remorseless by killing children,
Lustfully they advance,
To rip off heads,
Feeble, melancholy heads.
They…
Contributor:
Leyb Kvitko
Places:
Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919