Today's rhaps is on ... "My Sunny Art"
Maria Primachenko lived to see Ukraine free from the Soviet Union, but not into the current invasion by its Russian neighbor. She died in 1997. Her painting "Dear Friends, I Give You the Sun and My Sunny Art" - Дорогі друзі, дарую вам сонце і сонячне мистецтв - was, however, painted under Soviet oppression.
"My Sunny Art"!
Take that, you oppressors!
You bullies!
You tsars and autocrats!
We shall hide in the woods
Silent as Resistance
Until our
Sunflowers and
Blue skies
Overwhelm your dark evil
With Life
With Freedom
With Art
In the Sun
What grows is
Life
While you try to
Hold up
Nature
Force souls into slavery
Chernobyl grows green
Again
While you smash the
Truth
That you are not loved
Even
God
Does not want
Coerced
Love
10 JULY 2022