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Winter Apples

Winter apples

Winter Apples, Tatiana Gusarova

Unrhymed edited translation, © Fledermaus, Poetry Monster, 2021

Sunny, fine
It’s been a long day.
The whole family on skis
Got out into the woods.

Suddenly a three-year-old Vovka 1
Says to his mother:
“Look, oh miracle!  An apple is hanging
Over there on Christmas tree!”

And I looked to the left
And froze, speechless:
On the nearest fir tree
Clusters of ripe fruit!

But a gust of wind blew,
And suddenly from the branches
The apples have flown away:
A flock of bullfinches.

 

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  1. diminutive of Vladimir, like Billy from William[]
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I have outlived my own desires

 

I have outlived my own desires

I have outlived my own desires
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In English, translated by Fledermaus, Евгений Сухарников, © 2021

I have outlived my own desires
I now detest my own dreams
My suffering never expires
And is no longer what it seems

Under the storm of the cruelest fate
My flowering wreath wilted away
I languish in a disheartened state
And only for the end, I pray

So is benumbed with tardy cold
As wintry blizzard howls in grief
Stuck on a twig, naked and old
Is shaking last remaining leaf


Я пережил свои желанья,
Я разлюбил свои мечты;
Остались мне одни страданья,
Плоды сердечной пустоты.

Под бурями судьбы жестокой
Увял цветущий мой венец —
Живу печальный, одинокой,
И жду: придет ли мой конец?

Так, поздним хладом пораженный,
Как бури слышен зимний свист,
Один — на ветке обнаженной
Трепещет запоздалый лист!..

1821

 

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  1. Slavers throwing overboard the dead and dying by Joseph Mallord William Turner ( 1775 – 1851) []
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You must once

You must once.

You must

You must once

(edited/translated by Fledermaus, © 2021, original)

And you must once, at least once as you’ve reached the top,

as you’ve caught up with the horizon,

to stumble and fall to feel the fatal call of the abyss below with each pulsating cell.

And, as you lose your strength — to break down in the gorge

To crumble stones with your bloody fingers…

And, suddenly, as you are about to die, to stay alive… … at the very edge of the death!…

Sit down… Be silent… Draw a smoke… Laugh quietly… and think: —

How  great it is to be alive.

А всё-таки надо… пусть даже однажды… достигнув вершины, догнав горизонт, споткнуться… и падая… клеточкой каждой почувствовать пропасти гибельный зов. И, силы теряя — в ущелье срываться, кровавыми пальцами камни крошить… И, вдруг, умирая… в живых оставаться… … у самого края — в живых оставаться!… Присесть… Помолчать… Закурить… Рассмеяться… и думать: — Как всё-таки здорово жить!!!

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