Flowering Wilderness — @дневники: асоциальная сеть

Без отдыха дни и недели,
Недели и дни без труда.
На синее небо глядели,
Влюблялись...И то не всегда.

И только. Но брезжил над нами
Какой - то божественный свет,
Какое - то легкое пламя,
Которому имени нет.
Г. Адамович

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среда, 30 апреля 2014

20:13

what else can i say?

Anna Akhmatova
I heard the voice...

I heard the voice. It promised solace.
"Come here," it seemed so softly call.
"Leave Russia, sinning, lost and graceless,
Leave your land, pray, for good and all.
I'll cleanse your hands from blood that stains you,
And from your heart draw back black shame,
The hurts of failure, wrongs that pain you
I'll veil with yet another name."
With even calm deliberation
I raised my hands to stop my ears,
Lest that ignoble invitation
Defile a spirit lost in tears.

@темы: russian poetry

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понедельник, 28 апреля 2014

20:37

Rudyard Kipling – If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!

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пятница, 25 апреля 2014

20:19

Jorge Carrera Andrade – Nothing

In bookstores there are no books,
in books no words,
in words no essence:
there are only husks.

In museums and waiting rooms
are painted canvases and fetishes.
In the Academy there are only recordings
of the wildest dances.

In mouths there is only smoke,
in the eyes only distance.
There is a drum in each ear.
A Sahara yawns in the mind.

Nothing frees us from the desert.
Nothing saves us from the drum.
Painted books shed their pages,
becoming husks of Nothing.

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среда, 16 апреля 2014

21:57

The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

- See more at: www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/#sthash.M74Ft3x4....

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воскресенье, 13 апреля 2014

22:41

In English about love...

M.U. Lermontov
We've parted, but I still retain
Your portrait resting on my breast:
It makes me happy once again
As a pale ghost of the past.

Enslaved by newer passions, I
Kept loving it the same; this way
Forsaken shrines keep being shrines,
And fallen gods still make you pray.

1837

(Translated by Yevgeniy Sokolovskiy)

@темы: poetry

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пятница, 11 апреля 2014