ABUSES AND AWARDS

 A poet can't be in disfavour, 
 he needs no awards, no fame.
 
 A star has no setting whatever, 
 no black nor a golden frame.
 

 A star can't be killed with a stone, or 
 award, or that kind of stuff.
 
 He'll bear the blow of a fawner 
 lamenting he's not big enough.
 

 What matters is music and fervour, 
 not fame, nor abuse, anyway.
 
 World powers are out of favour 
 when poets turn them away.
 

© Copyright Alec Vagapov's translation

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