Categories: PoetryPoetry of day

“While night declaims…”

While 

night

declaims,

essential

peacefully

melts,

dissolves,

disappears

in the cloudless

air of life-giving

oblivion.

On the top

of the full moon

the star 

of your twinkling

with happiness

tears burns

and never fades.



Translated by Natalia Ogienko.

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