Five Poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh

 

who are happy

 

We are like worms we are like worms

We crawl underground

               *

The weather forecast was for

Tears instead of rain

Nobody is resurrected

Dahlias have blossomed

In every petal a breath of air

In every breath of air

God was called by his patronymic

They believed in God according to the national

Calling a patch of unfortunate land a state a country

Ripe apples in the garden

Tomato juice through the veins in spring,

The weather forecast deceived

In spring, bones come down on the grass

And nothing happens

               *

Snow leopard in the snow

Snow and wool glitter in the snow

 

The white bird turns into snow

And jumps from a height

Onto the black earth

               *

The deaf write their songs in white night

Because the deaf are sighted

 

In the black night they rise into the sky

And recite loud lines to themselves

To not scare

Those who are happy

 

(Reprint by QLRS, Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan 2023)

 

 

This poem smells blue

This poem smells blue

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The colour of wrinkles in the sky

Black shapes in clear water

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This verse will be picked up by crows in the morning

And they will be thrown from heaven

On icy concrete heart rocks

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All in vain

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(Reprint by Stone Poetry Journal)

 

 

Haiku

aluminum birds

even they come back

from warm countries home

 

(Reprint by Divotlit)

 

 

Haiku

sakura gave me silence 　

the flowers of the soul open

and the sky is bright

 

(Winning poem by EJCA Haiku contest 2023)

 

 

No title

in the black box of the plane is stored the black night of the soul

we are not born on this day

we are not dead this day

we are not alive today

we are in eternal night in a dispute with God and Lucifer

 

(Reprint by Big Window Review)

Mykyta Ryzhykh - is the winner of the international competition Art Against Drugs and Ukrainian contests Vytoky, Shoduarivska Altanka, Khortytsky dzvony; laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik, Lyceum, Twelve, named after Dragomoshchenko. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Published many times in the journals Dzvin, Dnipro, Bukovinian magazine, Polutona, Rechport, Topos, Articulation, Formaslov, Literature Factory, Literary Chernihiv, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal, dyst journal, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route, Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, Littoral Press, Book of Matches, on the portals Litсentr, Ice Floe Press and Soloneba, in the Ukrainian literary newspaper.