Yevgeny Baratynsky
- Disillusionment, by Boris Dralyuk
- Dissuasion, by Vyacheslav Chistyakov
«I had a bird in my hand / but my bird has flown. / I held a bird in my hand / but am now all alone. My small bird has left me / full of anger and rage; / my blue bird has left me / alone in a cage.»
«When the streets empty out / and the singing dies down / and a white fog covers / the swamps and the town, / from the forests in silence / one after another / the wolves come out and go hunting. Seven wolves walk on bravely; / in front of them walks / an eighth with white fur; / w...»
«One mirror must mirror another; / each mirror mismirrors the other. Not that evil cannot be defeated, / only that we cannot escape defeat; I believe in the ash left behind by the fire; / not in the music that burned my life.»
«When a man dies / His portraits change. / His eyes look at you / Differently and his lips smile / A different smile. I noticed this / Returning from a poet’s funeral. / Since then I have seen it verified / Often and my theory is true.»