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Mykhail Semenko
Futurism • Poetry • Avant-Garde

MYKHAIL
SEMENKO

December 31, 1892 – October 23, 1937
Mykhailo Semenko (1892–1937) was a Ukrainian poet, the founder and theorist of Ukrainian futurism. He was born in the village of Kibintsi in Poltava Oblast. In 1913, his first poetry collection, “Prelude,” was published.

“Maybe what’s really going on is I have the soul of a pilot.”

Mykhail Semenko

Poems &
Writings

Poem

An Appeal

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Poetry

Analogies

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Poetry

Anesthesia

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Modernism

Anxiety

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Essay

Author

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Symphony

Autumn Symphony

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Futurism

Aviator

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Poetry

Birded Island

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Poem

Bravery

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Modernism

Completely overwhelmed

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Landscape

Crimea

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Classic

Don Quixote

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Dream Poetry

Dreaming

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Poetry

Ennui

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Étude

Étude

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Music

Fall Violins

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Explosion Poetry

Fire with Explosions

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Symbolism

Flowers of Evil

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Futurism

Futuring

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Greeting

Greeting

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Love Poetry

I’m the one who loves

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Moon Poetry

I’m waiting for the moon

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Interior

Intérieur

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Interior

Interior

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Poetry

Izelina

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Futurism

La Futurition

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Manifesto

Manifesto

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Poetry

Marusya

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Heritage

My ancestors

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Songs

My songs

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Poetry

Mykolaivska

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Urban Poetry

New York

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Night Poetry

Of White Nights

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Romance

Pierrot Romances

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Experimental

Poem of Meteor Lines

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Poetics

Poetics of disappointment

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Classic

Riding Rosinante

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Countryside

Saturnalia in the Countryside

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Poetry

Seeing you again

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Serenade

Serenade

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Nature

Storks

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Telegraph Poetry

Telegraph-poems from across the Ocean

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Winter Poetry

The Blizzard

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Drama

The Captive

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Urban Poetry

The City

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Music

The Concert

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Archive

The Lantern

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Nature

The Park

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Music

The Violin

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Landscape

The wind scrapes off the hill spines

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Modernism

What’s Left

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Love Poetry

You and I

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