O dig me a hole in your hair,
swaddle me without flax.
Myrrh-bearer! What do I need with myrrh?
You washed round me
like a wave.
“Christ to Magdalene,” Marina Tsvetaeva, 1923
#easter #resurrection #believewomen #russianpoetry #holysaturday
#KonstantinSimonov #November28,1915- #August28,1979)
Author of #WaitForMe ( #WaitForMePoem ), one of the #MostPopularPoems & most popular #RussianPoems ever written, first published in #Pravda on #January14,1942. #WarPoems #RussianPoetry #GreatPatrioticWar #WWII
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#KonstantinSimonov #November28,1915- #August28,1979)
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#JCKaelin here: IMO one of the greatest poems of all time. #RememberBabiYar! 😭
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The Widow ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 Black bile, yellow bile: Autumn-aspen leaf-pile flecked with blight Quivers, exudes milky sap as it takes fright; Sprouts limbs, tail, head as Six-pronged icon of dogged, laggard ardour; Takes flight from logs brought inside and Placed upon the fire. When meads and leas are drunk with dusky dew, She bathes before a hearth of wood and coals aglow; Braids her white-streaked, jet-black strands: Young widow - Beetle-browed, kohl-rimmed Kahlo - Dark eyes fixed upon a scarlet sky beyond the Open window. Flying creature ringed with fire - Drake or Lindworm hornet-hued, Quencher of smithies’ forges - Whooshes, circles ever closer, Dancing off the Soul’s dross in Flames of Purgatory, Flames of chaste restraint, Flames of undying desire. Sparks set the thatch alight. Now with brows fused, eyes ink-pooled, She slams the window shut. From within: Gasps, sighs, kisses and Shrieks of delight. Inspired by Змей (“Serpent”, “Dragon” 1847), Afanasy Fet (1820-1892)
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Mother and Son Converse in an Ancient Crypt After Сон (“Dream”, 1910), Alexander Blok (1880-1921), Russian Symbolist I meet you in Dreams as a Matter of course. This night, We lie side by side in an Ancient crypt. Above us, Life rumbles on in Ever more voluble Boom-claps of Hubbub and Bedlam – Until the Last Day is upon us. Vague glimmer of Paschal Sunday; Far-flung Clamour of Swooning bugle. Our Catacomb is Copper-cast, but Pulsates within a Ruddy-gauzy Film of light. Wrapped in Vapours of Sunday-school Monotony and Incredulity - His Features surface, Clustered about with Swords and angels. Entombed with us, a Placid spouse shuns Rebirth, spurns Emancipation - Slumbers on in Oblivion. You whisper: In life, you were Sturdy and burly. Press harder on the Vault, and the Stone will Roll away. I answer: No, Mother - the Strength I once had has gone. I’ve suffocated in the tomb. Pray, both of you, for an angel to Come along and Roll away the Stone. Free adaptation from the Russian: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025
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He has been published in Vozdukh, Polutona, Translit, Stenograme, GRЁZA, and TextOnly, and was shortlisted for the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize (2020). Ulunov lives in Moscow. #RussianPoetry #Literature @bookstodon @poetry @poets (7/8)
He has been published in Vozdukh, Polutona, Translit, Stenograme, GRЁZA, and TextOnly, and was shortlisted for the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize (2020). Ulunov lives in Moscow. #RussianPoetry #Literature (7/8)
I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.
Anna Akhmatova
23.6.1889
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Not just a poem in Russian.
A Russian poem.
One cup.
An empty chair.
No words exchanged — and that was everything.
A quiet homage to Tariverdiev.
Where absence speaks.
«Двое в кафе»
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝘁𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼 -
Hard-lived and ironically-distanced nostalgia; bleak pleas against violence and horror.
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺𝘀" 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝘁𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼 -
The not-uncontroversial Yevtushenko, a Soviet-Russian poet, moved through the political upheavals.
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#JCKaelin here: IMO one of the greatest poems of all time. #RememberBabiYar! 😭
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Last Love
by Fyodor Tyutchev
(translated by Vladimir Nabokov)
#poetry #RussianPoetry #LovePoetry
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OH WIRE WHERE IS YOUR BIRD?
I carry Sorrow, a grey
bird, sluggish, in my chest
О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м
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