Without self-control
With complete meekness.
Light and soft is
Air over abyss.
Growing at once,
Like lightning — in time,
As if by order
There will be a blossom.
Answering stars,
With a snake hair...
Himself defenseless —
Not a flame-bearer!
He to me? I to him?
I'll try, I know.
Without intent
Into death I will go.
Без самовластия,
С полною кротостью.
Лёгкий и ласковый
Воздух над пропастью.
Выросший сразу,
— Молнией — в срок —
Как по приказу
Будет цветок.
Змееволосый,
Звёздоочитый…
Не смертоносный, —
Сам без защиты!
Он ли мне? Я — ему?
Знаю: польщусь,
Знаю: нечаянно
В смерть оступлюсь...
«Through love, through loves, as legends state it / Two kindred souls seek fusion true / Forever more to be related; / Ideal communion –destined, fated. / But fate locks them in combat too. And in this combat one soul’s fires / Always burns with love more pure. / It suffers more, to ...»
«Hush, my little sleepy-head. / Mama’s gone — to Paris fled. / Ah-Ah-Ah, please don’t you weep. / There were reasons, go to sleep. / Over there beneath the couch / Crawls a sleek and shiny roach. / Where’s his wife? In Paris, too? / No, she isn’t; that’s not true. / Life h...»
«One night I met, to my surprise, / A puny devil, blue with cold — / No bigger than a child in size, / His feral face was gaunt and old. He shivered in the icy rain, / Which had soaked through his matted pelt. / “This son of hell feels cold and pain — / We share one fate,” I some...»
«I feel the need for someone I can pray to. / Imagine that a common lowly ant / Was overcome by yearning for a way to / Prostrate himself—as humble supplicant. At peace no more, dispirited, frustrated / So all the world appeared to him mundane. / A goddess in his image he created / And...»