Victor Sklyarov Poems

My idea is that one shouldn’t fear
The misery and the despair
That might lead nowhere
Provided you don’t hear
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I really do believe
In immortality of Word.
Once said it starts to live
When ceases to be heard,
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To hear, to see,
To smell, to feel,
To taste, vibrating
With all sense organs rating
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The poetry’s the living creature
That’s nourished by response
She’s timid when you reach her
And ripens when you haunt
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There’s hiding place between three intersecting worlds:
One is the Dreamland and we call Reality the other,
The third, the biggest, is Eternity. My sisters, brothers,
There’s no death in this time swirl,
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The time has come to part my dear feat
It's time for you to leave for distant seas.
The ever-changing winds and sweltering heat,
From them you'; ; never suffer a defeat.
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Memory has seized stinging
Thoughts do not beat on the hands
You’re going and I’m seeing
You off to the alien lands
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