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arsanimarum · 1 year

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[Except for your eyes, / no blade can control me, / no sharpened knife.]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilichka

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mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora · 1 year

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Poesie, Aleksandr A. Blok, 1912

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yonemurishiroku · 3 months

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just an interesting verse.

Here is an approximate translation.

On his deathbed

and on the bed of love

The cover is made of the same cloth.

here is the original text in Russian.

На смертном одре

и на ложе любовном

Покров из того же лежит полотна.

I don't know what context this comes from but damn that's so poetic. love and death. side by side. at the verge of perish. love prevails still.

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morriganduska · 1 year

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Tamara and the Demon 🦇 [demon, mikhail lermontov]

2023

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beljar · 2 years

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Mikhail Lermontov, a russian poet, wrote about Palestine in 1837:

The Palm Branch Of Palestine

Palm branch of Palestine, oh tell me,

In that far distant home-land fair,

Wast rooted in the mountain gravel

Or sprung from some vale garden rare?

Once o’er the Jordan’s silver billows

Fond kissed with thee the Eastern sun?

Have the grim gales ‘neath starry heavens

Swept over thee from Lebanon?

And was a trembling prayer soft whispered,

A father’s song sung over thee–

When from the parent stem dis-severed

By some poor aborigine?

And is the palm tree ever standing,

Amid the fierce glare beating down,

The pilgrim in the desert luring

To shelter ‘neath her shadow crown?

Perhaps the leaves ancestral shiver

In unappeased parting pain,

The branch conceals a homesick longing

For desert wilderness again?

Was it a pilgrim who first brought thee

To the cold North, with pious hand?

Who mused upon his home in sadness,

And dost thou bear his tear’s hot brand?

Was it Jehovah’s favored warrior,

His gleaming head transfigured bright,

For God and man true-sworn, devoted

Unto the victory of light?

Before the wonder-working image

Thou stand’st as heaven’s defence divine,

O branch from out that holy country,

The sanctuary’s shield and sign!

It darkens, golden lamp light splendors

Enveil the cross, the sacred shrine–

The peace of God is wafted o’er us

From thee, oh branch of Palestine!

a text in Russian (Русский) by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Ветка палестины", first published 1837

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dadaaesthetic · 2 years

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Anna Akhmatova

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metamorphesque · 3 months

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"Poems are not written...", Andrey Voznesensky (translated by metamorphesque)

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fandom-trash-goblin · 25 days

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like matryoshka, one inside another inside another inside another.

Birthright, George Abraham // tumblr user dogsmouth // The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: White Flock //Anne Carson, Nox // A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails, Halyna Kruk // Herman Melville, from a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne //tumblr user eridan-amporna // tumblr user boyflesher(deactivated) // For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick // Elizabeth Robinson, Brothers

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soracities · 7 months

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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

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arsanimarum · 1 year

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[I wrung my hands under my dark veil... “Why are you pale, what makes you reckless?” — Because I have made my loved one drunk with an astringent sadness.]

Anna Akhmatova, Сжала руки под темной вуалью...

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mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora · 1 year

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