Tag: personal musings
member name: Svetlana Goryacheva
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July 05, 2008 03:31 PM EDT --
(This was one of my first contributions on Gather, and even though it was about 2 years ago, my perspective remains basically the same. Enjoy! ;-) )
I was born and brought up in an atheistic country, . . .
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July 21, 2008 04:52 AM EDT --
All this happened on Great Friday 2005 – the next day after my father's burial. He had passed away suddenly on Tuesday, 26 April 2005 from thrombosis – before my very eyes. Papa was never . . .
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September 30, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
One of my best efforts, IMO - enjoy! ;-)
Golden Fall has come to Moscow ....
We also call this unique season of year "Babie leto" - our Russian analogue of "Indian . . .
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October 06, 2008 01:47 AM EDT --
No, my dear friends, contrary to what you may think, this is not another version of John Lennon's immortal hit. ;-) This is my own and rather free English rendering of a song from one of . . .
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October 25, 2008 08:57 AM EDT --
Knock-knock...
- "Who are you?"
- "Your very first love, my dear girl. Remember me?... Remember how once I burst into your life like a gust of May wind, among all the storms . . .
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November 26, 2008 10:13 AM EST --
(See also A Little Moscow Sparrow )
Naked trees are all covered
With white translucent haze,
Only thin golden crosses
Paint grey canvas of skies.
Icy breath . . .
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December 10, 2008 06:07 PM EST --
"...O, noble Athenians!
I just hadn't got enough impudence
To tell you the things you wanted
To hear from me, that's all.
O, credulous Athenians! . . .
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January 14, 2009 10:18 AM EST --
…I dream
Of life so sumptuous, so abundant
That every breath
Of it is blessed with heavens’ kiss.
I dream
Of world so vivid and exuberant, . . .
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March 27, 2009 07:27 AM EDT --
Voices from the past -
The remnants of an ancient Truth:
The temples have long since fallen,
But it's up to the progeny
To decipher the language of ruins
And listen... . . .
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March 29, 2009 08:11 AM EDT --
Looking at the caravels' shadows
Dissolving in the salty ocean mist
I wave after them, thinking
That the true Paradise can't be conquered ,
It can be only . . .
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May 02, 2009 06:27 AM EDT --
Dedicated warmly to my dear friend John Beck and all the lovers of astronomy on the International Astronomy Day, May 2.
Stars on the sky are akin to people -
They are born like people . . .
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May 30, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
Thanks to my dearest Sestryonka (Sandi S.) for the inspiration…
Who was that guy
Born on the very brink of Oikumena ,
Far from the fussy noisy . . .
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September 13, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
Another poetic experiment inspired by the well-known painting of Viktor Vasnetsov (1848 – 1926) - a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects; a key . . .
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April 16, 2008 05:34 PM EDT --
Dear all -
As you know, my main interest is religion & Biblical scholarship, nor politics, and I seldom, if ever, would allow myself to re-post here anything what wasn't originally written . . .
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August 13, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
Another one on the latest events...
… And so I’m sitting here,
Listening to “Ekho Moskvy” –
The only radio station
I can more or less trust –
Thinking about . . .
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September 21, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
. .. Written in the heated August 2008.
What I can give to you?...
What I can give to you,
My remote dear friend?
Russian lullaby’s smooth flow,
Tender stroke . . .
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November 03, 2008 10:50 AM EST --
The famous Russian-Jewish writer Sholom-Aleichem (1859 - 1916) once noticed (in "Stempenyu") that human heart in general, and especially Jewish heart is very much like a violin - . . .
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November 14, 2008 07:01 PM EST --
The following is my humble poetic attempt to render into English one of the most touching episodes from the first known literary masterpiece of ancient Russian literature, The Tale of Igor's Campaign. . . .
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December 26, 2008 10:18 AM EST --
…For so many eons
People have been trying
To unveil the Great Mystery,
The mystery of Love.
For so many centuries
Bards and troubadours . . .
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January 20, 2009 07:30 AM EST --
Whenever I question the power of dream,
Love is the answer.
Whenever I fear to swim against the stream,
Life is the answer.
Whenever I waver on . . .
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