Poetry from Mykyta Ryzhykh

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alley of non-existent views

despite the fact that the birds did not return 

from distant countries:::

spring has come

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small misfortunes ooze from all cracks

birds die as soldiers lovers become unloved

and only the swallow flies overhead as freely as before the war

the swallow does not ask for names and secrets but simply flies

and together with the bird with a scalpel flies the potency of years forgotten by doctors

not taken into account by seconds of happiness when you are next to me

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what are you doing while the world around you becomes dead

what do you crave

how many needles are in your skin

how much need + thirst is in your skin

we part forever as strangers

I will forever forget that you appeared before me 

as a swallow of new days 

and forever captured the long-dead

where to get the air that will no longer fill our bedroom

where to get warmth for a person with a sweater instead of a body

in what language to kill the past in which I still live stomping in the future

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my duty is over

another boy not born in the dark sailed away to nowhere

soap bubbles of pink walls of the red night

when I came into this world fresh

and now I’m squeezed into the tea of death like an iron lemon

if my ex-husband decided to write a novel about me

then black poems of white darkness would turn out

the purity of the stars in the sky

among the hearty voids of the mountains the wind of change roams

a grown old child who will forever wait for his mary poppins

infinity murder

all in vain 

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crunching feet and feet of foliage under our boots

trees have long wanted to punish us for our violence

but all trees can do is grow deeper into the ground and be silent

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Drops play with their own transparency

I’d like to know what’s really in your head

I would like to know what’s really in my head

The ice grows over and acquires new scars

The hope inside me is the last to die

But outwardly I’ve been dead for a long time

Steam rises up as if there were no dreams at all

I bury birds on the pier and trample sand castles

This is how I trample and bury your portrait painted in my head

It starts to rain and your mouth opens to drink

I still love you like at the beginning

I’m still dying like the unborn Jesus

I’m still alive but in vain

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masters of dreams

beetles hide 

in autumn leaves

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other free birds sit in the trees

fear of freedom in feathers sits in the trees

people sit around blood and murder

people sit inside the blood and murders

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What are we looking for instead of freedom?

a man walks alone along the road

and the road seems to him to be the road to heaven

what should we do during the war?

only to move on and seek peace

just live at any cost

What is a person in essence?

The whole gamut of despair from red to white

and that child who walks along the main road

where will the child go?

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a storm is brewing

inside my heart