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The Red Wood

The sun of this Spring awoke me,

With the Voice from the Sleep it rose,

From the Doubt of Thought, it took me

Into world, where the Red Truth grows.

«How often you’ve had the Red Day?» —

That mystery teller have led; —

«The word to be fair on your eye-way,

By magus the Nature be spread.»

Dumb, I have stepped into wood mine;

How felt I to see that all new:

The birches not white! – the red line

Mystify the strange poetic view.

How could‘ve that happen, oh, tell me? —

Is’t a sign of Red Horse? Skye cries?[66 - Red Horse – apocalyptic image from Matth. 6: 4;]

Like the shades, blood with o’erwhelming,

Those Life’s witnesses stands and sighs.

Human mind – fatalist-dreamer!

All the fancies in time, behold,

Paints the things – fairer to grimmer, —

All embodied in real world.

No image stays off-the-Matter,

Not a map that poein[67 - The proverb «poein» [to poeticize] in old Greek means «to create».

On this border, the Fate ne’er flatter

With that Polis can use for strife.

Voice had gone… I felt quite awkward.

These red stems, kind of prophecy…

Yet I’ve dreamt, what if some Ode-word,

Incarnated, its author could sее.

    (12.05.2014 – 20.05.2014

    dacha, by Sergiev Posad)

Nike and Her Head

Oh, ????! Time though did beheaded you; —

They dies, day new, to break one of your wings: —

«Who’s right? who won the Woe-War?"… Not Marce;

And none is to survive in slaves of his…

Who is to win upon th’Achiles’ anarchism?[68 - In this verse, I’d like to remind you that of why Achiles, a bloodiest hero, is the only personage, amongst all of his friends the Athenians, who was honored to be placed on the Eagean Islands, after his death: if you remember, he’s a one, never looking for the War and the fighting, right from the start; a peacefulest athletic character a nymphan, unlikely to all others, he had no purport and no desire to war at all, surely nor like Menelai the revenger, neither like Odysseus the profit searcher; Achiles the Marmedonian King kept the policy of neutralism on his Islands, and this kind of blissfulness I’ve mentioned to be a part of me-versed vision of a noble Aegenean of his past and his future, both.