A re-posted villanelle from last year commemorating the one year anniversary of resistance.  It means "All Glory to Ukraine: All Glory to the Heroes.

 

A thousand years will not expunge this stain

Nor sate the Devil’s craven appetite

All Glory to the People of Ukraine

 

He smiles as children speak their prayers in vain

And laughs as Death reaps Innocents in flight

A thousand years will not expunge this stain

 

Lamenting in excruciating pain

As only mothers, daughters or wives might

All Glory to the Women of Ukraine

 

“This is all lies; there are no infants slain”

So spins the puppet with his bile and spite

A thousand years will not expunge this stain

 

Defying from the skies Death’s fiery rain

Reluctant heroes scrabble in a bombsite

All Glory to Defenders of Ukraine

 

Unconquerable spirit thus remains

And refuses to submit their nation’s plight

A thousand years will not expunge this stain

All Glory to the People of Ukraine

 

SLAVA UKRAINI : HEROYAM SLAVA