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| Poems of Nature and the Spirit written over a period of nearly forty years on Iona and South Uist in Scotland, the Dnipro Valley of Ukraine, and the Hudson Valley and Adirondack Mountains of New York. |
| Fallow Fields from The Promise of all Living A whistling wind brought dancing on its twirling toes the light yet pregnant autumn chill; pregnant with frozen winter's promise of heavy cold. And dead leaves a dance of death did make o'er fallow ground. Some were tricked to see the image of infertility . . . But in the autumn dust, under the leaves and the whistling wind, all the seeds, all the seeds were waiting. Nothing is ever fallow except, at times, the human mind which cannot grasp fertility. And there are no pauses ever in the lithe and joyful dance of life. (C) 2000, Walter William Melnyk All Rights Reserved Please do not save or copy without written permission. |
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| Poems of Walter William Melnyk and his brother, James Stanley Melnyk, written while traveling the Dnipro River through the heart of Ukraine. |
| Prymorskyy Boulevard (Odessa) from Ukraina Cool breezes drift along Prymorskyy through shading chestnuts on a spring morning. Two women, hand in hand, stroll along the stones with gentle laughter that lingers aftertheir passing, as though a tender warning given to a land steeped in blood. A century of tears and sorrow have taught them not to trust tomorrow, so as they pass the steps where so many died, and glide along the gentle street, there is, today, within their joined hearts a place where hope and sorrow meet, and turn to love. (C) 2006, Walter William Melnyk All Rights Reserved Please do not save or copy without written permission. |