«Children's Verses Tiny toddler told his Dad: / “I am puzzled so! / What is good and what is bad? / Answer if you know!” / Secrets I will always shun — / Nothing could be worse! / All that Papa told his son / I have put in verse. If the wind tears down the roofs, / If the heav...»
«What happened to Me, Vladimir Mayakovsky, at the Rumyantzev Summerhouse, Mount Akula, Pushkino, on the Yaroslav Railway. The sunset fired a hundred suns, / summer had rolled into July, / heat stretched and purred, / heat hugged the sky — / and it was in the country this occurred. / The ...»
«It wasn’t an unearthly shock — / Not a shade from death’s door. / Into the port, / blazing / like molten summer, / entered / and turning...»
«So wie Rauschgoldengel glühn / Tief im Wald die Weihnachtsbäume; / Im Gebüsch: der Spielzeugwölfe / Wilde Schreckensaugen schieln. Meine Trauer ist so alt / Wie der Freiheit leises Rufen; / Unbelebter Himmelskuppel / Ewig lächelnder Kristall!»