Long Akhmatova Poems
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Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
akhmatova, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Muse By Anna AkhmatovaTHE MUSE by Anna Akhmatova
This is my English translation of a Russian poem by Anna Akhmatova…
The MUSE
by Anna Akhmatova
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My being hangs by a thread tonight
as I await a Muse no...
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Categories:
akhmatova, muse, poems, poetry, poets, stars, sun, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
On Reading AkhmatovaOn Reading Akhmatova
by
Rick Folker
Kansas City, MO
...delighted in deliriums,
In singing about tombs.
I distributed misfortunes…
… But I am not allowed to forget
The taste of the tears of yesterday.
- Anna Akhmatova
“The Last One”
Awake in my darkened room
Another nightmare...
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Categories:
akhmatova, anxiety, bereavement, remember,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Ethereal “A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy...
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Categories:
akhmatova, inspiration,
Form:
Acrostic
Anna AkhmatovaHer restraint ne'er beholden to a closed entity,
but to turn the key that unlocks the shackles
that hinder one’s poetic pen, utmost words
to cascade into the annals of history,
Bard to reveal decadency of a mind from
ravelled...
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Categories:
akhmatova, freedom, political,
Form:
Free verse
Summer's SnowHeart's memory of sun grows fainter,
What now? Darkness?
Perhaps! This very night unfolds
the winter.
-- Anna Akhmatova
I remember the summer
of yesterdays, folded neatly
like little leaves just waking up to life.
Ours were colored, all...
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Categories:
akhmatova, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Like White Stone In the Deep of Well By Anna AkhmatovaLike white stone in the deep of well
a moment lies in me and I remember,
Ah, it is fun, it's suffering, I tell,
I cannot fight, I'm ready to surrender.
It seems to me there's someone who can...
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Categories:
akhmatova, emotions, feelings, longing, loss, poetess, remember, sad
Form:
Lyric
I Squeezed Hands Under Veil of the Darkness By Anna AkhmatovaI squeezed hands under veil of the darkness...
"You are pale today, tell me, why?"
Because I gave him drink with tart sadness
to be drunk to regret and to cry.
Can't forget, he walked out and he staggered
And...
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Categories:
akhmatova, emotions, feelings, pain, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Lyric
Like On Edge of a Wetted Cloud By Anna AkhmatovaLike on edge of a wetted cloud
I remember your speech, my sound
makes more brighter again your night
than the glory of their daylight.
And we are out of land, you know,
We're so high, like the stars we...
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Categories:
akhmatova, emotions, feelings, happiness, hope, love, poetess,
Form:
Lyric