My creative genius

[avrelia]

I got frustrated with all my writing today – English and Russian – and decided to write poetry to relax and change the mindset. Well, not so much write as edit the old stuff.

It was my old habit – to think of a novel, but then get lazy and write a poem instead. Poems are short – mine, anyway.

I will be in Moscow soon – which is a very heart-warming thought. Parents, friends, food and books…

Which leads me to a question – any books recommendations? Everything – not written in English - that you love, I may have read it already, or not – I have rather eclectic taste, and cannot narrow my question down.

I post one of the poems I mildly satisfied with here (in Russian). Why do I never perfectly happy with them? At best I am mildly satisfied.


Владеет мной фантазия чужая:
Мне судьбы дороги придуманных людей.
Я за своей судьбой следить не успеваю,
Но вот за тех, часы и дни теряя,
Я беспокоюсь искренне вполне.

За них я бормочу мольбы и оправданья,
Для них продумываю каждый шаг,
И по углам смущенного сознанья
Живут и здравствуют престранные созданья,
Не оставляя дум моих никак.

Волненья мести, роста и надежды –
Не слишком много у меня свободных дней?
– Я примеряю как престранные одежды;
Я принимаю, ныне, как и прежде,
Ума забавы, суету идей.

Comments

[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

Hee. I can't read a single letter of Russian, but I love looking at the letters - so totally diferent!

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Some are the same, actually. More or less - like A, O, K. The European languages just adopted Latin alphabet - as it was, but the Cyrillc alphabet, though based on Greek, was modified to suit Slavonic languages, and then modified some more over the centuries.