The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
February
February. Get ink, shed tears.
Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,
While torrential slush that roars
Burns in the blackness of the spring.
Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas,
Race through the noise of bells and wheels
To where the ink and all you grieving
Are muffled when the rain shower falls.
To where, like pears [...]
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
Winter’s Night
Blizzards were blowing everywhere
Throughout the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
As midgets in the summer fly
Towards a flame,
The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to
The window pane.
And, on the glass, bright snowy rings
And arrows formed.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
And on the white illumined ceiling
Shadows were cast,
As [...]
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
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There’ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter’s day seen in the space that’s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow – no one at home.
Once more, frost [...]
Alexandr Blok (1880 – 1921)
Unknown Woman
Above the restaurants in the evenings
The sultry air is wild and still,
And the decaying breath of spring
Drives drunken shouting.
Above the dusty distant lanes
The boredom of summer homes,
The baker’s gold sign barely shines
And a child’s crying rings out.
Each night, beyond the crossing gates,
With bowler hats tipped rakishly,
The practiced wits stroll with [...]
End it!
January begins with the advice “End it!”. The advice is related to my “non-relationship” with the man I am in love with. I called him an entity in a cyberspace, but what I really wanted to say was “NON-entity”.
Moving on. January is a time to begin, not to end. But every ending is a [...]
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