See two my poems in my translation in English, the transliteration and in the Russian and Ukrainian original:

                                       to Birgitta Ingemanson

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11 sentyabrya 2001

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© Lyubov Sirota 

International Annual Action "The Saved Planet"

LYUBOV SIROTA        

   THE MODELLING OF THE FUTURE – IS A REALITY

                                AS YOU SOW – SO SHALL YOU REAP

And it is not casual, that some years ago among former inhabitants of Pripyat (now members of Kiev club " The Fellows Townsmen") was born the idea to give to the world famous sorrowful day on 26 April positive momentum, so that this day would become still and the Day of the Hope on the rescuing of humanity, for which necessarily the yearly 10-minute (from 17.00 to 17.10 on Greenwich) unification of earthlings in the common aspiration to Peace, Agreement, Goodness and Love. And the publication of "An appeal to the citizens of the Earth from the victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe" 28.01.98 (from submission of one of initiators of the action of the poet and journalist Victor Grabovskij in the newspaper "Your Health" has started the International Annual Action  "The Saved Planet", which already from the first step – on 26 April 1998 – has united hearts of numerous people at the Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Russia, USA… I think, this occurred because of the gradual learning of the main lesson of Chernobyl – it is that without the spiritual revival the humanity is doomed to the global catastrophe, when whole planet would become "dead zone", as our beautiful Pripyat. However then there will be no place to move more than six billion earthlings!..

       I will note, that this Action is not the substitution of the efforts of religious-spiritual, cultural-educational and socially-political organizations, but it only supplements to their daily labor on the cornfield of spiritual renovation, preparing soil for the beneficial sowings.Therefore it is not surprising that in the Ukraine this project found support, also, on the state level. However, sometimes we encounter with the complete incomprehension of importance and practical significance of the action: some people consider "The Saved Planet" only as religious action; others – as naive or declarative action; and some – as generally unimportant action, because, in their opinion: in the society too many topical problems in order to be occupied by similar "stupidities"…

        Yes, of course, the vital problems must be solved today, but without forgetting in this case about tomorrow, remembering that all most acute, most topical problems (from the economic decline and an increase in the criminality –  to the wars and the ecological and technical catastrophes) have very "long tail"  in the past!.. Layers terrestrial and overground are saturated by the phenomena of human crimes. Epidemics, cataclysms and other troubles physically and spiritually depend on these stratifications. – I.e., what we sowed in the past, it we reap in the present!..  And it is not to be surprise, what does occur on the planet, when the consciousness of many people is still not capable of rising higher than the everyday, material needs? For such consciousness it is difficult to understand, that every his thought changes his environment, also that, besides body, he possesses spirit, manages energies, which create or destroy peace around him every instant. Person, who does not think about the highest, turns into the reptile and attracts the lowest energies. Many diseases, many murders are generated by the thoughts of destruction. Thought, this great gift, disappear in the ignorant actions.We are ready to betray even our Mother-Earth, only that not to think about the consequences of our behavior and thoughts. But you see, the spiritual degradation and irresponsibility has brought the humanity into the vicious circle of constant topical problems and eternal fight with the consequences of his own imperfection and nonacceptance of the way of the spiritual renovation, which was indicated by our Saver (Christ) of already 2000 years ago… 

        For the people, who not believe in the highest wisdom, for the people of pragmatic I will give some positions of the "noosphere’s concept" of well-known Ukrainian scientist, academician V. I. Vernadskiy, which may be as the scientific base of the action "The Saved Planet". And it is nonaccidental among the scientists, who immediately signed under "An appeal to the citizens of the Earth", there was the follower of V. I. Vernadskiy academician D. M. Grodzinskiy.

         Still before the Second World War V. I. Vernadskiy wrote:"Idea about the unification of whole humanity becomes reality only in our time. It is clear that the creation of this unity is the necessary condition of organization of the noosphere of the Earth, and humanity unavoidably will arrive at it". If these words were heard then, as far as would be less the dark energetic stratifications, which cover the civilization from the aid of the high forces now! By the way, other well-known scientist, pupil of V. I. Vernadskiy academician P. A. Florenskiy has named the real existence of the sphere of the Earth implicated in the action of the thought and spirit of human by the "pnevmatosphere". But how we would not call this thin layer of planet ("noosphere" or "sphere of human’s thought", or "sphere of the mental energy of the Earth "…), each person today must know that from the quality of his thoughts and feelings, from the orientation of his actions depends everything that  occurs on the Earth. As says the law of Vernadskiy:

                           "MACROCOSM – IN THE MICROCOSM"

                                LOVE WILL RESCUE THE WORLD     

         In this eternal truth are placed the basic principle of the renovation of world; the key, capable to open for humanity the gates into better future.Taking into account the judgment, that before death of human, the Highest Wisdom may be opened to him, I will give the fragment of the last interview of still one our famous compatriot – of operatic singer Anatoliy Solov’yanenko: "Love must  move the world!.. Beauty, Love and Kindness must save world, because human cannot live in the encirclement of evil, enmity, envy, of all that creates negative fields around us. That be must not! And spirituality must be brought up in us! So, what in future our children could say the grateful words to us for the fact, that we have abandoned to them not only Chernobyl and the poor ecology, but that we have abandoned to them the Hope!… We are obligated to be penetrated by thought about the need for radical changes, to care that our spirit at last would begin to shine, that he would rise high above the all of this and would say to us: – Lads! People! Where you do go? You should go in this way, that you would feel the Joy of the life!.."

          As these words similar to the words from the letter of American writer Douglas Lamb – of one of the devotees of action "The Saved Planet": "I want so strongly, that the life in this world would become better! And I always have astonished to the thought, what this is in no way difficult to make – it is necessary only so that all people would respect life, would respect each other and would value this excellent planet!". Douglas also reported, that he made copies of the materials of the action and sent to their different public and religious organizations (first of all, – to the Ukrainian orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic Churches of Boston), and also in the newspapers, including Russian and Ukrainian newspapers in Boston and New York DC. "This is excellent idea - directional effect of prayer, since the Lord always answers all prayers!" – he noted, naming action "The Saved Planet" – as "The Day of the Universal Prayer". And this is very exact determination!

         Sensing the smile of skeptic, I must say, that it is not worthwhile to see a prayer as abstract concept, because the prayer – is  bridge, which connects man with the Highest World, it is a conductor to the Highest Paradise. The streams of beams of the interested heart have the fiery qualities, capable of saturating and of cleaning the space. The properties of strong magnet are inherent in a prayer, its action attracts from the space the best energies and possibilities…

         The antipode of prayer – ribaldry as other negative manifestations, on the contrary, creates the unique dark magnet, which disturbs and pollutes the space. Blasphemy and ribaldry – their consequences is much more dangerous than the ejections of the poison gases of technologic productions, since generates terrible spiritual destruction, to say nothing of the diseases, connected with the breakdown of the atmosphere. But more terrible than all illnesses there will be the destruction of thin near the planetary layers. That is why the prayers and good thoughts are so much necessary, that to fill these precipices and ulcers of space!..

The power of thought energy – is the mystery, about which the wise persons of all times and peoples have reflected. People, at last, must understand that their energy gives enormous consequences; that the potential of a thought, entrusted to each, can be used wisely and thriftily – for the good of the world; or stupidly and common wastefully – into the harm to all on the Earth. Thus, a prayer can be great experience and proof of the highest manifestations of a Spirit. When we speak the prayer, we bring space benefit to the world. When we are gathered together for the unification of thought, we are gathered for the common Goodness (for the common Blessing), because a high thought is akin to a prayer. The thought about the Goodness – is a happy thought, because every good thought give the best fruits. As lightning, piercing the lowest layers, such thought rises to the spiritual layers and comes back with clean energy of Highest spheres, which shields human from the negative influences. This is why so it is important to each to wake up in the heart the highest aspirations, because the energies of the Space are subject to the powerful influence of these beams streams of heart. The conscious ratio of each to the own Highest beginning can give a base for the new world.The awakening of spiritual forces will help to humanity to leave from the blind alley, spiritual sanitation will give to the world the highest energies, necessary for constructing the best future.

                                   DIO VEDE – DIO PROVVEDE

           "God sees – God will ensure it ", so has responded about the action "The Saved planet" professor Ugo Persi from the University of Bergamo, which has translated in Italian "An appeal to the citizens of the Earth from the victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe" and transmitted it to ecological association LEGAMBIYENTE (league of medium), which has centers in 15 cities of Italy.

          And the first active devotees of this idea from the Washington University: professor Paul Brians, who already some years ago has introduced this "Appeal to the earthlings" in internet, and professor Birgitta Ingemanson have continue to distribute"Appeal" and the special the invitation to the next meeting in April, 26 at 9.00 on local time(at the library of their University (in Pullman) or at the square of the Friendship in the town Moskov of the state of Idaho, USA…),  and with the request to those who can not come, at fixed o’clock to join the action mentally. Birgitta Ingemanson, telling as inhabitants of these cities have sincerely responded to an appeal to unite the positive energies, quotes a fragment from the letter of father David Rozidzha: "Thanks you for the invitation to join you in Day of Memory and Hope. I shall be happy to carry out the prayer April, 26… This noble business. As our poet Tenison spoke: The more actions and the more prayers – and we shall pull out the world of dream from fetters of indifference…".

And in the 2000 year Debra Shubert from the city Spring Lake of the State of Michigan, USA has responded on the "Appeal of the victims of the Chernobyl" so: "My reason and my heart are filled with a pain from thought about Chernobyl and about that how many evil the people do each other?!. But among all this tragedy I hear your words of Warning and Love… Henceforth annually April, 26 at the specified o’clock I and my family will join to a Universal prayer by all means. We shall pray for the rescue of our planet. Probably, all of us together will able to implore a pardon for our unjust acts and to return to the all of good and kind. Peace – with you!..".

One more the propagandist of "The Saved Planet" in USA - a student of the University of the State of Wyoming Kim Henry also one day has found this "Appeal" on Web pages of the professor Paul Brians and has responded on it by her poem "Life":

                     "You ask me about all the darkness in the world

                    You asked me."

         And Dr. John Griffiths from the Pontyclun (UK), still in 1999 having found the "Appeal to earthlings" in the Internet, has introduced it to the parishioners of the church of St. Pavel, that pushed slightly people to the collection of means for the invitation of children from the Belorussia into the Pontyclun to summer leisure and treatment. Furthermore, on 25 April 1999 in the church of St. Pavel was the Sunday prayer, dedicated to 13-th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, during which was read and transmitted to each parishioner the text of  this "Appeal" so, that all inhabitants of city each year on 26 April in the assigned hour have joined to the common  prayer of earthlings.

              Same prayers occur and in Germany, where the number of the religious, ecological and public organizations, which support this Action, grows annually. About that ecologists Johanna Schuhmeir, Suzanne Henning from Munich ecological association "Mutter Gegen Atomkraft" ("Mothers against nuclear power") and one of the first active propagandists of this project – professor O. S. Omelchuk from polytechnic university of Kiev have reported to us. Olga Sergeevna has involved in this project of the friends in Germany: former minister of culture of GDR Osvald Vutske; Tatyana Ignatovich-Nich, who sponsors "Red Cross" in Cologne; pastor Marianne Kvakborner from Frankfurt-on-Maine; Manfrad Boerle, who coordinate effort of association "Human and an environment"; Mariana Ostrovska from Braunshvaig, who has informed, that pastor Jogan Kon has read to parishioners of their city "Appeal of the victims of the Chernobyl"…Besides, she has connected the students of her University to this Action, as well as the teacher of the Ukrainian literature of the Kiev State University of T. G. Shevchenko – the doctor of philology Anatoly Tkachenko, and the doctor of psychology of Moscow University Adol’f Harash, and the deputy director of library of Novosibirsk University Lyudmila Distanova. Two years ago teachers and students of the Kyivo-Mogiljanska Academy have joined them.  Thus, the original spiritual string is formed between students of American Universities of States Washington and Wyoming, of the Italian University of Bergamo and students of the Ukrainian and Russian universities…

Besides, in Russia known writer Grigorij Medvedev and the author of the whole cycle of films about Chernobyl (among which the film "Threshold", known film director Rollan Sergienko, last film of which "Chernobyl 2001. The Testament." has finished by the "Appeal to the citizens of the planet" have supported actively the action "The Saved Planet". He very much hopes that mankind will able to hear this voice from dead Pripyat.

           In Asia the project was supported by the World Spiritual University Brahma Kumaris (India) and a society of the victims of nuclear bombardment of Hiroshima "Juno" (Japan). Besides, Japanese "hibakusya" together with former citizen of dead city Pripyat from the Kiev club "The Fellows Townsmen" and with their friends from Germany make a lot of additional projects to the action "The Saved Planet" and have many new plans for it. Natchapton Manakisha from Thailand also assures the people from Pripyat, that they are not lonely in aspiration to help planet – he with friends from the bottom of heart supports them. And the editor-in-chief "Thick Magazine of the Central Asia" Michail Ozmitel from Bishkek one of first has published the materials of the Action on pages of the electronic version of this magazine.

         Students Juha Tolonen (from Australia) and Kate De Bruin (from Finland), who have visited the Chernobyl zone and dead Pripyat some years ago, also have assured the Pripyat people, that now they together with the friends join the action "The Saved Planet" too.  In last year the message has arrived from New Zealand from Solveig Bodley, in which she has informed, that all her big family and friends annually April, 26  also will connect energy of their hearts to energy of hearts of all, who wish the best future to our planet Earth.

         So, with every year the geography of "The Saved planet" more and more is enlarged. However, this important action will become valuable, the having significant practical effect only, when it envelops the large part of humanity. It is understandable, that the united efforts of all society, state and international organizations, all people of the good will are necessary for this!

However whether this Action will rise to the ponderability of the Day of the Universal Prayer already in this year or within the next few years, depends precisely on you, the dear reader! – Please tell about it to your family, friends and familiar, read to them "An appeal to the citizens of the Earth from the victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe". And on 26 April (yearly!) from 20.00 to 20.10 on the Kiev time (from 17.00 to 17.10 on Greenwich), please join to it (with setting fire to candles) – in the family circle or friends, in the temple or only in private with yours conscience and with Most High. Let, at least by several minutes, that  we all together could feel mankind by the united God family, where each is responsible for each and for the state of our common house – the Earth! And, God will give, we will deserve the best fate.

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Dear Friends! Please remember - every year 26 April in the Day of Remembrance - Day of Hope we have the

International Annual Action "THE SAVED PLANET"

AN APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF THE EARTH

FROM THE VICTIMS

OF THE CHERNOBYL CATASTROPHE

The video of "An Appeal to the citizens of the Earth from the victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe" (in Ukrainian), which was been made and for the first time been shown still in 1998 on one of channels of the Ukrainian TV by known Ukrainian TV journalists Andrey Tzaplienko and Ruslana Pysanka. The text of this Appeal in English please read here:

People!

Whoever you are – powerful or homeless, servant of God or sinner, well-known scientist or with little education – hear this Appeal from dead Pripyat - of the epicenter of the Chernobyl catastrophe!

         Look around you! Earthquakes and floods, tidal waves, tornadoes, and fires; ecological catastrophes born of technology; wars, ethnic and religious conflicts; cruelty and aggression; the spread of diseases and a decline in morals – all of this is our own doing. It is a result of our lack of spiritual values. All of us – the people of the Earth – with our excessive behavior, dark thoughts, false ideas, and depraved actions have brought our planet to its last boundary, beyond which is ruin.

       And no one will save us, except the Highest. But even the Highest cannot help us unless we repent, and only if we want to help ourselves and every living being on Earth.

We cannot rely on the politicians; in the political arena all noble endeavors seem destined to result in controversy. But we can all together take that first step on the path to Salvation.

          Recall, each of you, if there wasn’t just once in your life an occasion when your sincere, heartfelt prayer (or concentrated thought and glorious feeling) helped you in a most wondrous way.

And now imagine what kind of force it will be if all of us – more than 5 billion people on all the continents of the Earth – at one and the same moment lift our eyes to the heavens and send to the Supreme Being, to the Highest Reason of the Universe, a universal, powerful stream of bright energy of Goodness and Love. It will be a first small step toward purifying the space surrounding our planet –  its biosphere, as well as the sphere of human action through thought – of the dark destructive energy that is filling the atmosphere of our planet!

         Let April 26 from now on become not only a Day of Sorrow and remembrance of the ever growing numbers of victims of Chernobyl, let it also become a Day of Unification of humankind as we face the threat of self-annihilation, and a Day of Hope for our salvation.

                So little is asked to make this happen-just do not forget:

                                               every year on April, 26

                                 from 5 p.m. to 5:10 p.m., Greenwich time

   [= 9 - 9:10 a.m., US Pacific Daylight-Saving Time; adjust for the time zone where you are]:

                  stop, if you are on the road; wake up, if you are asleep;

                              lay down your weapon, if you are at war;

            put aside for ten minutes all your worries, problems and sorrows;

and find in your heart all the brightest, best feelings of which you are capable.

  •    If you are a believer, turn with your sincere, heartfelt prayer to God (in your own language, according to your own traditions); may this include your worship to the Highest, your repentance for voluntary and involuntary sins, a prayer to purify and save your soul, to purify and save our planet and humankind, and a prayer of gratitude to the Lord for his mercy.

  •   If you do not believe in God, then devote these ten minutes to good and bright thoughts: remember everything that you love, all those whom you love in this world; sincerely repent of bad behavior; wish that you will become better and purer, that you will love and help those close to you (even if only one living soul); with all your heart, wish for Good, Happiness and Peace to all people on Earth and in the whole Universe.

        It’s not difficult, Citizens of the Earth! Do it! And may the Supreme Being hear us, oh People.

Translated by Birgitta Ingemanson and Gitta Bridges, March 1998

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/chernobyl_poems/appeal.html

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(In Russian) http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/chernobyl_poems/appealrus.html

(In Ukrainian) http://www.slovnyk.org.ua/txt/syrotal/spaspl.html

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We ask all humanitarian, cultural, religious and public organizations, all people of good will to promote distribution of this our Appeal.

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Contact phones in Kiev:

(044) 534-43-32 – the club former inhabitants of Pripyat "Fellow townsmen"  (zemlyaki_org@mail.ru);

(044) 296-84-69; 296-47-34 – children’s Fund of the International organization "Union Chernobyl";

(044) 425-43-29 – the National museum of Chernobyl in Kiev (http://pripyat.com/ru/museum/).

Lyubov Sirota

PRIPIATI

 (Triptikh)

Transliterated by Birgitta Ingemanson
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From The Chernobyl Poems of Lyubov Sirota of the Home Page of Paul Brians
The original poems of Lyubov Sirota in Russian: "NOSHA"
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For those who wants to know more about this my triptych devoted to Pripyat - the comment to this poem from my comments to my Chernobyl poems, which I wrote for the University work of my American friend Kim Henry in 2003.
This is this fragment of my comments:
The comments to some my poems.
May be it no will be comment to poems. Poems should speak for themselves!.. May be in the more degree it will be the short stories about vital situations or a condition of the soul, that become a push for creation of their poems. I yet do not know, what I’ll able to do out whole of it(?!). Because it is really very difficult task: to write briefly about all of life, especially about the tragedy of such scale as Chernobyl catastrophe (and so the more - in English, that I know not enough, unfortunately!)… As the greatest novelist Lev Tolstoj wrote: “If I was able to write briefly, I would be the poet..”. I am afraid, that my comments to verses may turn to a biggest novel (!).
All the same, it is really the truth: poems can tell about all things of the world much more briefly and eloquently!!! But I‘ll try!.. And you will choose from all it only that will be necessary for you, okay?!.
And, speaking about the translations of poems, I would like to tell about one more important factor. As I see now, Elisavietta Ritche and Leonid Levin have made very free poetic translations of my verses. For example, the rhyme and frequently even a rhythm at all is not kept in them (besides, still an internal rhyme is in many verses of the original)… Therefore the poems lose the big quantities of expressiveness… I think, you can see it, when you listen my poems on the audio cassette(?!).
It once again emphasizes as importantly to know both languages in perfection, that to be engaged in literary translation. We with you know, what even the most fine literary translation (from any language on any language) full may not transfer all nuances and all depth of the original, all colour and features of other language! But we with you know too, as far as mutual translation of literary works of all countries is important (!), because if these products were not translated, we would not know culture and the literature each other!
Therefore and now I am very-very grateful to them for all their work (and especial to Paul Brians, of course!)!!!!!! Apparently, their translations all the same have kept much that I wanted to tell (the big stock of author's energy!). Because many people, reading these translations, understand deep sense of these poems…
But, when I translated poetry Vasul Stus or other authors, I very much tried to keep all features of their poetry. And if I managed to translate it as it is possible more precisely, I was very happy from that!..
And SO:
First of all it is necessary to pay attention, what almost in all my Chernobyl poems is used the plural pronoun “we“. It not simply poetic reception, I had the full right to write verses on behalf of all my fellow countrymen - of Pripyat people and of all victims of Chernobyl, because (to a greater or lesser extent) all of them had such hard way, similar the way, that I had; also they have felt everything similar that I have felt… I know about it not by hearsay, not from stories of the third parties, but all time after tragedy I was near to them, everywhere: then till July, 1986 - in a zone, in time of our trips there with my former girlfriend (nowadays known journalist) Lyubov Kovalevskaya; and then - in Kyiv (and in other cities), in the specialized hospitals and sanatoriums, where I or my son had treatment; and on the often funeral of friends and of familiar…
And now about poems:

I. To triptych "To PRIPYAT" - 1986 (spring - autumn):
1) “We can’t neither expiate nor rectify…”
The first poem of this triptych (“Ne iskupit' i ne ispravit' nam oshibok i bedy togo aprelia”) was written the last from all my first Chernobyl poems - by an autumn of 1986, when already it became clear, that we were evacuated not only on three days, since the representatives of authority spoke about it earlier; that we already never can return to our town… This poem was the first attempt to comprehend and estimate tragedy already on some distance from it (though the unexpectedness and the absurdity of everything, what has suddenly lain on our shoulders, then still could not neither be comprehended nor to estimate!)… Were only: a sharp pain of loss of everything, feeling of hopelessness and full uncertainty of the future (in your own future and of your children)… Also the feeling of huge “burden“ of fault for mistakes and crimes of other people, as though for your own fault… Understanding what Chernobyl is a result of abnormality of former life of your country and your own life - all it is “a painful burden of conscience awakened”, that we will be “to carry all life” on the our “bent shoulders”…( Vsiu zhizn' nesti sognuvshimsia plecham prozrevshei sovesti muchitel'noe bremia!), because “We can’t neither expiate nor rectify the mistakes and misery of that April”… By the way, Chernobyl catastrophe has really woken conscience of many people in Soviet Union. The ” abscess of Soviet authority”, that ripened already long time before, has broken after “Chernobyl”. - If in the USSR up to it the slogans about democratization, reorganization (perestrojka), the publicity, that Gorbachov has proclaimed, were only the empty words (it was simply the next ideological campaign of Communistic party!), but after “Chernobyl” the woken up people has forced authorities to fill these words with real sense…
Further in this first poem I have used the homonyms (relatives words on the sounding, but different on the sense): “peresilit' ” (to overcome or to overpower), “pereselit' ” (to resettle or to move). By the way, I use such poetic reception also in other poems. In this stanza it was made for a deepening of an image of the pain of the lost home (not only in sense: home, as house and residences, but it is more a than structure in a more comprehensive sense: home, as habitual environment dear to your heart - relatives, friends, work, hobbies and so forth; home, as small native land…). Now this pain always “will live in the pulse of our hearts”, because “it has registered there by memory disturbing”… Our dead town stayed there - not only in the Chernobyl zone, it’s stayed in our hearts forever. It’s stayed there, surrounded by prickly bitterness (in this poem the prickly bitterness: it and our sharp, prickly pain about the lost city, it and a bitter grass polun’ under the name chernobyl, that grows in city and around of it (everywhere in Ukrainian Polesye), it is a usual barbed wire, with that the city Pripyat is literally surrounded. But our town still loves us and for all forgives and it not understand: “Why? Why we abandoned it forever?!..”. In these lines a town appears at us already like an animated (alive) essence, that also has soul and heart…
Like an animated (alive) essence the city is submitted and in the second poem of this triptych: “At night, of course, our town, though emptied forever, comes to life”. 
2) “At night, of course, our town…”
This poem is a core (a pulsing heart!) of triptych “To Pripyat”. It was written the first from other both poems - in the beginning of May, when it became already clear, that to us is not so fated to return to city never. Though Pripyat of the beginnings dreams to me (as well as to many people of Pripyat) in the first days after evacuation; but the knowledge that this separation forever, has made these dreams especially bright and surprising; besides, they beginnings dreams to me almost each night… Therefore people, which were compelled to abandon city, as if phantoms in the dreams come back there each night - their dreams wander in the town like clouds, and illuminate windows with moonlight… (My and our dreams about Pripyat, and also the dreams and presentiments of tragedy till April, 26, 1986 - it is a special theme of conversation!).
Pripyat was young, but very green city, I knew in it almost each tree, but more I might not touch any of it. And nobody already might not touch!.
How bitter for them to know
there will be no one for their shade
to protect from the scorching heat!
Therefore: there, trees live by unwavering memories, remember the touch of our hands…. and at night their branches quietly rock our inflamed dreams… In my Russian text: there, trees live by vigilant (not asleep) memories…
And at the every night even the stars comes down onto the pavement, to stand guard until morning, that nobody and nothing have prevented to the people dreams to come back in the their lovely town… “To stand guard “ in Russian it is phrase “stoyat’ na chasah” (to stand on the time or hours?). Here (in original Russian variant of verses) one word “hour “ is used in different sense: in sense - to stand guard (stoiat' na chasakh - to stand on hours), and in sense - the gone time (no minet chas - but the hour will pass), not a hour, but the time (the certain interval of time) in this case is night. It might look so:
Stars thrust down
onto the pavement,
until morning to stand on hours…
But the hour will pass…
The time of night will pass and each morning abandoned by our dreams the orphaned houses, whose windows have gone insane, again will say goodbye to us… In Russian variant of poem here I again have used relatives words on the sounding, but different on the sense: “pokinutye snami " - “abandoned by dreams“ and “proshchat'sia budut s nami “ - “will say goodbye to us”…
My pain, a pain of all inhabitants of Pripyat, a pain of thrown town… pulses in this poem. It’s shout of my heart because it was written right after our first trip with Lyubov Kovalevsky to already dead Pripyat in middle of May, 1986… When we were going on the deserted city, we had meeting of only one almost completely a bare frightened dog; and then we were in our apartments… In my apartment veiled by curtains, it was clean, silent and cosy. Our flat yet had our warmly, as though it waited for us with Sasha and wanted to look better, as though it already was afraid, that it is our last meeting with it, because it yet has been not cleaned from all our things… Then I could only cry!… Dozimetpist has allowed me to be there no more than 30 minutes, because in our area of the Pipyat, as he has told, at that moment the radiating background was 1 - 1,5 rentgen (not micro- and not milli- !) . Also to me have allowed to take only two big cellophane bags of our things: I have taken only our photo album, about ten books most dear for me, and also some warm clothes for Sasha and for myself (in case (!), though, as appeared later, all of it was very radioactive - “dirty”)… At that moment from clothes we had only that was on us (and these simple, cheap clothes were to us given May, 4 in one of Kiev bath, where we have passed, so-called, deactivation and where at us have taken away all last our things which we have taken with ourselves in evacuation); and money at me was then only 15 roubles……
But, speaking about a pain, I want to emphasize, that this (after Chernobyl’s) many-sided’ pain never was for me only my personal pain, from the very beginning and till today this is a pain of other people too: a pain of the first people dying then in Moscow (in clinic № 6) and in Kiev, their widows, mothers, children; a pain of all pripyatchan and chernobul'tzev, scattered then over all USSR - later they will also ill and many of them will have the died relatives… Later, already with understanding what terrible danger carry the atomic engineering and all dangerous technologies, already has appeared the pain-alarm not only for destiny of our city, our country (Ukraine), but also for destiny of all world, all real on the Earth. Believe, it is not simply beautiful words, it is the clear truth!.. This universal pain dictated to me lines of all mine poems after Chernobyl… For this reason in these poems you can see the plural pronoun “we“ so often.
3) “We've stood over our ashes…”
The last (third) poem of this triptych was written in the summer,1986. In Russian the first line of this poem sound so: “Postoiav nad nashim pepelishchem”. Here the word “pepelishche” it’s not “ashes” faster it is “ruins”, but is more correct would be “the native house “ - in wide understanding of this word: it and the home, and city, and the small native land… (For example in Russian it is possible to say:” to return on the old pepelishche”, that means “to return to the native house”).
In the line “Postoiav nad nashim pepelishchem” two Russian phrases are combined: “to stand above a tomb…“ (means - to say goodbye to the died person) and the native pepelishche (means - the native house)
Therefore more exact (interlinear) translation might be such:
We've stood near a tomb of our native house (of our native city…),
what now we can take with themselves for the our long way?
Or so:
We’ve said goodbye to the our native house (to our native city),
what now we can take with themselves for the our long way?
Then we with Lyubov frequently went in a zone (were in dead Pripyat). Kiev in that summer also lived under mark of this trouble (under mark of Chernobyl), it was especial appreciably, because of almost full absence in city of children (!)… But nevertheless the world of Kiev for us contrastly differed from our destroyed world transformed into a zone of alienation, into a war with the invisible enemy. Each time, going in a zone, we crossed this at first sight invisible line between the peace and war. Here (in Kiev and in Irpen’ - near Kiev, where we then lived), was the peace, there (in a zone) was a war. And this difference was striking! I shall bring only some examples: After a May panic at stations and at the airports proceeded (when Kiev people have already taken out children and already have left city all, who might), here all the same was almost usual, peace life. The washing cars then has washed Kiev each day, and the announcers have explained on the radio, for example, that when you go to bathe to Dnepr, it is desirable to not sit on beach sand and so forth….. But when we went at the bus in the direction side of the settlement with name Poleskoe (our trips on the zone began whence), we saw how women work on the kitchen gardens (and nobody speaks to them, that is impossible to work on the ground, that it radioactive). Already in Poleskoe there was absolutely other, war’s life. There almost everyone were dressed in a uniform: white, grey, dark blue or colors khaki. There was rotated the all Chernobyl people (liquidators, soldiers, former inhabitants of Pripyat, of Chernobyl and of nearest villages) and all transport from the zone. However nobody washed Poleskoe, like Kiev; there then there was only one field bath which worked under the short diagram two times per day, certainly, it might not serve even a small part of these people, which then needed to be washed some times per day. Certainly, the zone had in our souls the especially indelible, too hard impression - but it too a special theme of conversation!!! This line between the peace and war has passed not only on the ground, but it has passed on the our souls, on our life. Our life, after evacuation, has shared on two parts “before war” and “after war”. People, who've gone through the Chernobyl drama, still long (a lot of years!) spoke: it was “before war”; and it was “after war”.
Then here in Kiev we with Lyubov have met many remarkable, kind, sympathetic people, especial in among the Ukrainian writers: the “Union of Ukrainian Writers” has given us the possibility to live temporarily in the house of creativity in Irpen', and some women - writers have shared with us the clothes and footwear. Despite of all this, we were another's here, there we were the own. There people told to us the all truth about all that was occurred then. Though people then did not love all journalists for the continuous lie in press, but we were the own, therefore they trusted us even the most secret facts… Among other things, it was the period when our children were sent in the nowhere (I has found the son only at the end of August, but it’s also long story!!!).
That is why there was this feeling of our isolation from all world, that “we are doomed to be left behind by the flock in the harshest of winters…”. Then, when I wrote these lines (where I used a phrase harshest winter, it was in more sense: harshest, heavy life), then I yet did not know, as literally forthcoming winter will be severe: very cold and unusually multisnow (almost that nuclear winter!), in such a way our ill ground has protected and cleared itself of radiation…
Already then, when I has looked at the worried faces of people here on district the peace, I was afraid for them: that suddenly with them also will happened something similar that happened with us! I very much would not like that such happened with them or with other people on the Earth! I would like, that even they were happy! But for this purpose they should not be same careless what were we! I would like, that our example, became a severe lesson, the warning for all: “People! Let there will be no new Chernobyl! People, be vigilant!!!”…