John Gordon Sennett

Published in The Ukrainian View

·2 days ago

How I (We) Joined the Ukrainian PR Army

A story from Kyiv, Ukraine during the war February 24, 2022, a day that will live in infamy for all of us who were in Ukraine on that day no matter what our nationality. I really can’t recall the exact details of that day because my “Marine” brain went into…

Ukraine Pr Army

5 min read

Published in The Ukrainian View

·Aug 3

Ukraine’s Manifest Destiny

An Opinion from a US Citizen in Kyiv Humanity often thinks it knows and can determine the mind of God by stating that certain people or nations are pre-determined or pre-destined to accomplish a certain thing. In the United States, the belief that God determined that country’s Manifest Destiny with…

Manifest Destiny

4 min read

Jul 29

Outside Showers and Summer Feet

Memories of youth at the Jersey Shore “Sweet days of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom.” I can hear Seals and Crofts sing their song “Summer Breeze” in the deep recessed echoes of my 1970’s summers in Cape May Point. “Summer breeze, makes me feel fine. Blowin’ through the jasmine in…

Memories

8 min read

Jul 18

Concrete Ship: Letters from Kyiv

A Final Farewell to Cape May Point Take a moment and get into your child’s mind. Can you still go there to that time before you had responsibilities and knowledge of the world and its ways? Now, imagine you are a child in the six to eight years old zone…

Nostalgia

4 min read

Published in The Ukrainian View

·Jul 15

Existential Right to Exist

Reflections from the War on Ukraine In Ukraine, we go to bed at night not knowing if we will exist in the morning. If we wake up in the morning, we wake up knowing we may not exist when it is time for us to slumber again. We walk out…

Russia Ukraine War

5 min read

Jul 8

Writer: Whore or Beggar?

An Existential Rant of a Soon Would Have Been Writer The other day as I walked the streets of Kyiv, my mind wandered to the digital world. My mind, not my eyes on those seemingly demonic contraptions we use to communicate and scroll. I thought about history, the one we…

3 min read

Published in The Ukrainian View

·Jun 30

July 4th from the New War for Independence

Comparison between America and Ukraine’s Wars This weekend in the country of my birth and citizenship, people will be celebrating at barbecues, picnics, beaches and their own backyards. They will celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence that took place on July 4, 1776 by the Continental Congress at…

July 4th

5 min read

Published in The Ukrainian View

·Jun 27

Flour Power: Over 100 Days of Russia’s War Against Grain and Maize Dependent Nations

Article by Ukraine PR Army Volunteer\US Citizen Residing in Kyiv, Ukraine Source: DepositPhotos The Holodomor which was also called the Terror-Famine was a genocidal Soviet policy carried out from 1932 to 1933 by Joseph Stalin and enforced by military and political leaders of the USSR against Ukraine (then the Ukrainian…

The Ukrainian View

6 min read

Flour Power: Over 100 Days of Russia’s War Against Grain and Maize Dependent Nations

Jun 19

A Poem for Pop

A Poem for My Stepfather who always stood by me Your seed was not planted in the womb that bore me Yet, that does not make you any less my real father Nor does it make me any less your loving son Nobody besides us will ever really know or understand That love that…

Fathers Day

2 min read

Published in The Power of Poetry

·Jun 11

This is the Child

Inspired by John 1:12 and Matthew 19:14 This the child that I once was This is the child I, again, am trying to be The man and the child, both of them are me But I lost the good parts of the child along the way He calls me now to come back to…

Poem

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