
Photo by Anastasia Magazova.
A mountain of sandbags protects the statue of Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko, in Kharkiv.
Sandbags is a bilingual tanka in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) by Gabriel Rosenstock:
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táid ag rith as am
bailíonn siad málaí gainimh
dá mbard náisiúnta
chosain seisean a dteanga
in aghaidh scrios is díchuimhne
sands of time run out
and yet they gather sandbags
to protect their poet:
he once shored up their language
against winds of destruction
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Source:
https://roghaghabriel.blogspot.com/

Photo by Bogdan Kinvshchuk.
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Gabriel Rosenstock — poet, tankaist, haikuist, novelist, essayist, playwright, author/translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish (Gaelic). Rosenstock is one of the foremost poets in Ireland in both English and Irish. He also writes haikus and he works as translator and as assistant editor for an Irish-language publishing house. He writes primarily in Irish and is the author or translator into Irish of over one hundred books. He is member of several literary societies and organisations, such as the Innti group and Aosdána.
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