Winter

Look at the window, and tell me you see,
Snow going down, white covering trees;
Heaven like mirror, mirror of ground,
World is amazing, looking around.

Winter has come
And the snow’s covered the land.
All the jobs have been done
And the year’s coming to end.

Fir-tree lights are burnt
And the people are wishing for good.
All the lessons are learned,
All the values are understood.

Let the old year go away,
Let the New Year come to my land
Let the old friend never betray,
Let the new friend give me a hand.
Let the people live always in peace
Let prosperity come to their homes,
Let their kindness ever increase,
Let them see...

When I breathe,
This sound in my chest
Lonelier than the winter wind

Дышу
Этот звук в груди
Более одинок чем зимний ветер

5
My child not yet returned from playing somewhere
I take out the toy train
And run it myself

Ожидая ребенка, заигравшегося где-то,
Я достал игрушечный поезд
И покатил

8
For five blocks after I left home,
I walked like man
With something to do, someplace to go -

Пять кварталов от дома прочь
Шел я как человек
Имеющий дела, идущий по делам...

I stand alone in the darkness.
The winter of my life came so fast.
Memories go back to my childhood
To days I still recall.

Oh, how happy I was then.
There was no sorrow, there was no pain.
Walking through the greenfields
Sunshine in my eyes.

I'm still there, everywhere,
I'm the dust in the wind,
I'm the star in the northern sky.
I never stayed, anywhere,
I'm the wind in the trees.
Would you wait for me forever?

The silvery night sinks down in heavenly cracks.
Fires of lanterns convict a predatory
sight of the urban wolf.
The dissolute fog irons
a cold body
the fan of mad silence.
The wild, unrestrained perfection of the moon
will penetrate in heart of the pith angels.
Wake up, it is time to collect legends of ripe constellations,
crop of the grape god of love.

In dancings shadows the current of narcotic visions revives.
By concourse of sharp winds finds breath ancient fear.
Dress masks...

Before my dreams are turned to snow,
I’ll make a step into the light.
I’m sorry but I need to go.
I cannot win this wisdom’s fight.

In winter stream of my desires,
I close my eyes, so you may see
How hopeful thoughts grow dark through fires.
And here’s my life in misery.

This mode of leaving you behind
In moist and misty endless world
Is just a tear that I can’t cry,
Is just a soul that wasn’t sold…

Prachtige bloemen in sneeuw
dat is als vrouw die huilt...
de warmte is ontbreekt in hart
en winter heeft gewonnen

maar sneeuw vlokje
schreeuwt op het rand :
het is niet waar!
een straal van liefde komt naar boven!

Under the yoke of the winter
You slept, lethargic, in the North.
The evil king, the Frost, oppressed you,
But the power of the Sun
Has demolished his wicked kingdom!
Your dazzling-white petals,
Your gentle scent, intoxicating and alluring,
Has won over the permafrost.

May, 2012

The clouds of risen Peroun
Pass, like celestial shields.
He casts the lightning like unblunted arrows
Across the sky and down to the earth.
The thunder thus proclaims the end of the era of ice,
And blessed rain and hail
Consecrate herbs and forests,
Serving the burial service over the deceased Winter.

May-June, 2012
Yekaterinburg-Saratov