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Broken Hearts’ Tango

 
Don’t miss it – It is a beautiful video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy-rkOpXspA&feature=related
 
 
 
Текст (слова) песни «Танго разбитых сердец»
 
 
Автор текста (слов):
Арсенев К. 
Композитор (музыка):
Лепс Г. Кобылянский Е 
 
 
 
Мы всю ночь танцевали,
А с утра вы сказали:
Этот мир – мир печали.
Кто мы здесь?
Давайте с вами
Пойдем «ва-банк»,
Давайте завтра
Ограбим банк.
Мы не такие,
Как все вокруг,
Мой таинственный друг.
Достаньте длинный
Свой пистолет.
Никто на свете
Не скажет: нет.
Пусть от любви
Будет ночь пылать.
Я [...]

Measuring Silence…

 
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
 
 

 
***
 
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 [...]

In the Moonlight the Snow is Sparkling

 
 
 
A poem about Winter Landscape.
 
 
Surprisingly enough, I was thinking what I could write about Winter Landscape.  That was my homework for January.  Yes, that one from the calendar.
 
And that is what I found.
 
A Russian romance “In the Moonlight the snow is sparkling”.
 
Because it is Russian Romance, it is in the Russian language.  Obviously, but that [...]

“I will remain the Light for you…”

 
What do you know?  I always stumble on something and this song “I will remain the Light for you” seems to continue the theme of Light from the post “I never once refused not to help you”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKGR8V-fJRw&feature=related

Now it is time to begin…

What was my homework, again?
 
I decided, at least for a while, to follow Goethe’s advice.
 
Quote of the month.
 
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
 
 
Making a list:
 
Ö        A Little [...]