The Best Russian Poet Is Balmont! Poem by Liza Sud
The Best Russian Poet Is Balmont!
The best Russian poet is BALMONT!
He is the Poetry's Bible!
Not only of our own,
but for the whole world!
Because he is Universal,
he doesn't seem a rehearsal
as many of poets do.
He's poetry's well-to-do.
He answers to any feeling,
no matter males or female,
His level is so deep that
all difference fades away,
And you are given to hear
the deepest voice of your God.
Not just your look, that is near,
but sight from the high above!
He is with you in your childhood,
he is with you in despair,
and his is like Mozart touching
the core of your silent layer.
He is with you in marriage,
and when as angel lonely,
He is at one time Russian,
English, Japanese, Georgian.
He wrote 93 volumes.
and knew 16 languages,
He was the Tsar among poets,
and all near him seem pale,
Was banished in Soviet era,
unknown to all of us.
Some archives just dissapeared
in the cruel thirty's time.
All others are small like children,
nervouse in weak emotions,
and he is - like eye all-seeing
not proud nut kind and gorgeous.
No genius could match his goal
and I never met his pair.
If Pushkin is our all,
then BALMONT - is ALL IN SQUARE.
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4/19/2024 8:53:22 PM # 1.0.0.1119
This is a wonderful poem of Praise, Liza. An important element in its success is that do not just praise Balmont but show WHY he deserves this praise, that is, you prove the points you're making and by the end I was convinced, no, that's the wrong word - I was persuaded! ! by both your eloquent and ordinary language. Your images of Balmont are really amazing but they work, like his universal eye and his relevance to all people, not just Russians. And I like how you inrterpret Brodsky's position in the light of discovering Balmont. It's a balanced position.