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star / звезда ~ a poem

20 Wednesday Sep 2017

Posted by a l anzalone in Love, Memory, Poetry, Russia, Spirit, Uncategorized, Writing

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creative writing, heaven, love, mayakovsky, poem, poetry, star

once again once again
i am a star for you

that’s from a russian poem
isn’t it? yes but it comes back

to me over and over again
as my own composition

for somewhere deep within
i see myself as that distant star

appearing in your heaven
always out of reach

yet somehow near
shining just for you

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Is it so wrong? ~ a poem & a photo

31 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by a l anzalone in Photos, Poetry, Russia, Writing

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idleness, photo, photography, poem, poetry, time

flowerfence

 

Is it so wrong to stare

at a weathered wooden fence

covered lightly in ivy,

to watch its quivering tracery on the ground,

at the expense of being late?

Is it so wrong to sometimes wish

you could move through time

like an aristocrat in a Russian novel,

to feel like you have all the time

in the world to rise after noon,

take tea, visit the countryside,

and dine close to midnight?

 

 

Milaya sobatchka ~ a poem

16 Tuesday Dec 2014

Posted by a l anzalone in Dogs, Love, Photos, Poetry, Russia, Writing

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dogs, love, photography, photos, poem, poetry, russian language

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For some reason
my dogs like when i speak russian,
like when I say “milaya” and “sobatchka.”
they seem to understand me better
than when i simply say “sweet dog.”
they crawl over on the rug,
dragging their bellies.
they roll onto their backs,
not in submission,
but in overwhelming trust.
so I say, “shto ti delaesh?”
“what are you doing?”
and they answer back
with wide eyes of love.

 

Theory of literary fiction

06 Sunday Oct 2013

Posted by a l anzalone in Books, Fiction, Russia

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anna karenina, empathy, theory of mind

Here’s an interesting study I ran across regarding the benefits of reading literary fiction as opposed to popular fiction and nonfiction. I personally have nothing against so-called popular fiction, though I tend to enjoy old classics myself (oh, my goodness, how the lives of Anna Karenina, Vronsky and Levin swallowed me whole) and maybe this is the reason why:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/i-know-how-youre-feeling-i-read-chekhov/?_r=3&

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