September Sunset Over St Petersburg
SEPTEMBER SUNSET OVER ST. PETERSBURG
Final fling of color and movement from the sun
Celebration of life before it’s done.
Bits and pieces of beauty criss-crossed
And all is higgledy, but still filled and tossed -
Like a rainbow salad
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Categories:
st. petersburg, nature, beauty, beauty, ,
Form: Imagism
St Petersburg In January
ST. PETERSBURG IN JANUARY
Frozen stillness of canals:
Venice in aspic.
Golden-domed church......
Heaven’s bulbs auric.
Palaces everywhere -
History majestic.
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Categories:
st. petersburg, urban
Form: Epigram
Saviour Church, Griboyedova Canal, St Petersburg
SAVIOUR CHURCH, GRIBOYEDOVA CANAL, ST. PETERSBURG
In defiance of its Soviet museum-death
Reflected in water moved by God’s breath
The five-domed Saviour church gives
Hope, for its bulbous gold dome yet lives
Silent spheres sing of new life glowing
With gold-edged scales reflecting, showing
In watery swaying flashes
Like shoals of precious trembling fishes
Each scalloped wavelet free
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Categories:
st. petersburg, inspirational, places, religion, water,
Form: Couplet
The White Night In St. Petersburg
In June in the St.Petersburg the «White Night» is the all-night twilight because
the sun is only 8 or 10 degrees below the horizon in the middle of the night. The
sky doesn’t get at all dark.
During of it all city is very beautiful and mysterious.
Lilac, lilac, lilac!
Shadows of forgotten days,
Heroes of ancient legends
And
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Categories:
st. petersburg, imagination, inspirational, mystery, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Brilliant St. Petersburg
Ah, what beauty around!
This day began deliberately.
Even the sky and river Neva have a same a blue colour.
Between them domes fly,
and a thin steeple rises
with a little gold ship at the top.
In the Smolny Cathedral,
the bells whisper.
On the Gulf, calm and silence prevails.
I see unearthly beauty
in the lacy lattices of fencings;
lanterns guard bridges for you,
my
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Categories:
st. petersburg, art, history, nostalgia, places,
Form: Lyric
Night St. Petersburg
How lovely night St. Petersburg!
Nevsky Prospekt Is still
one from the most beautiful views in the world,
With his color fires.
Through 300 years,
Through many, many days.
The silhouettes of bridges
And ancient lanterns still – are fine!
Here the charming old lattice keeps
Old Summer Garden near the river Neva,
Here among ancient lindens
Marble
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Categories:
st. petersburg, history, nostalgia, song-night, night,
Form: Lyric