Beauty Cannot Be Banned

Posted on by rita kowats
BBC Ukrainecast- graffiti left in Bucha by Russian soldiers
Katarzyna Modrzejewska Pexels.com





Beauty Rises

Beauty rises.
No matter what.

It rises from rich loam
and from tomes teeming
with dreaming.

A sunflower in Donetsk region
lifts its face, offering seeds 
to a waiting lark.
One errant seed clinging to a claw
drops into the rubble 
of the besieged city.

The seed pushes up 
through a crack in the rubble.

Beauty rises.
No matter what.

c. Rita Hemmer Kowats 
June 2, 2022





			


	



						
	
					



	
		


		

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