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Preface
The Word*
At the Mirror*
The Field
Pygmalion*
Paroles, Paroles*
The Choice*
The Sea*
Autumn Walk*
Listening to “Kama Sutra”*
The Great Unknown
Chopin Nocturno*
One Week before Christmas*
A Sonnet
A Bury Poem
Sans cesse
A Sonnet
Autumn
Café and Music*
When
Les côtés du ciel
Verses on the Train
And So I Write My Life*
My Favourite Book*
Les Femmes
Love Is the Colour of You
About the author
It is perhaps unusual to write a preface to a short collection of poems. However, having decided to publish my English and French poems in a book, I thought some pre-emption was necessary.
The poems presented here explore the themes that concern us all, regardless of age and country. Love, the meaning of life, faith, Time, our relations with other people… I certainly regard poetry as a philosophical inquiry into one’s life. This inquiry, however, is of artistic nature, as we do not merely lay out our emotions and ideas, but we present them as an image, an allegory, which the reader has to decipher in order to comprehend and show empathy. Having been influenced by surrealism, as a poet I often exhibit the metaphysical outlook typical of Giorgio de Chirico, which manifests itself even better in my Russian poems. In fact, some of the poems in this collection have been translated from Russian (they are marked by an asterix); some were inspired by paintings, others by music.
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The power that no mortal ever has.
You tread in sadness on the dingy walk,
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