Exceptional 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       Recognized 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 ================================================= 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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