The first collection of poems by Volyn resident Oleksandr Toporivskyi, head of the "Youth Union 'Our Ukraine'" of the Zhovtneve settlement near Novovolynsk, was published recently. The collection is titled "Yes!" and, according to the author, the name was not chosen by chance, as the book is dedicated to the President of Ukraine Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko, the winner of the 2004 election campaign.
Among the poems, whose titles are mostly key slogans of "Our Ukraine" and the Maidan, there is also the Hymn of the Orange Revolution. "Like a purple rose among white snowdrifts, the Revolution blossoms in us with thousands of petals-tents…" — such images the young poet painted in his soul. Today he is a tenth-grader who aspires to devote himself to jurisprudence, because he knows for certain that his knowledge will still be needed by Ukraine.
"Only now have I understood that power is fashion: colors change, models grow old, and the public still has to endure," Oleksandr Toporivskyi concluded his story with the words that accompany his first collection.