THE SOUL JUMPS WITH JOY
Slava Konoval
The soul jumps with joy,
she’s surrounded by British care
and twenty years of drunken life in Ukraine.
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A former alcoholic mother flaunts herself
by the colored pictures in a web.
Her peasant neighbors are jealous of her,
their fields are not plowed, their fields are not sown,
as they are all alone.
How is it in the blood to live peacefully?
How is it to thank God?
He had released a mother from an impoverished life.
Mother’s house is bequeathed
by the descendants of English barons.
A smoke has settled in Ukraine,
never to see their mothers
on Ukrainian railway platforms.
Slava Konoval
My creative works are dedicated to the central themes of modernity, and the main one is the exposure of the concepts of “good” and “evil” and their transformation into a gray shade. Poetry is a weapon against consciousness, which feeds on cheap informational garbage, cultivating a consumerist attitude and civic indifference for the future of the society in which individuals live. Since I am a lawyer by profession, poetry is my additional tool that allows me to fight where politics mercilessly and maliciously defeats the law. I am an active member of civil society and perform the functions of the Commissioner for Prevention and Counteraction of Corruption on public grounds. I adore the poetic satire.
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I have never attached much importance to the naming of my poetry, as I believe that poetry should be devoid of advertising content. The heart of poetry is the power of words. That’s the main thing. Ideologically, my works are in the canvas of a poetry group called Voices from Ukraine.