Poem
Mykola Ryabchuk
The Straightforward Poems
6.we have been trained to write
about everything on earth
about Fujiyama Long Island
Loch Ness
about the nuclear processes
metaphysical speculations
eutrophy eclectia
explosion
perception and reception
extrasensory infrastructurity
gnoseology agnosticism
now it would be right
if we could learn to write nothing
when
when half a kingdom is exchanged for a poem
and half –
for a clean piece of paper
© Translation: 1990, Mykola Ryabchuk and R.A. Jamieson
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
THE STRAIGHTFORWARD POEMS (6)
© 1981, Mykola Ryabchuk
From: Winter in Lviv
Publisher: Molod’, Kyiv
From: Winter in Lviv
Publisher: Molod’, Kyiv
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The Straightforward Poems
6.we have been trained to write
about everything on earth
about Fujiyama Long Island
Loch Ness
about the nuclear processes
metaphysical speculations
eutrophy eclectia
explosion
perception and reception
extrasensory infrastructurity
gnoseology agnosticism
now it would be right
if we could learn to write nothing
when
when half a kingdom is exchanged for a poem
and half –
for a clean piece of paper
© 1990, Mykola Ryabchuk and R.A. Jamieson
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
The Straightforward Poems
6.we have been trained to write
about everything on earth
about Fujiyama Long Island
Loch Ness
about the nuclear processes
metaphysical speculations
eutrophy eclectia
explosion
perception and reception
extrasensory infrastructurity
gnoseology agnosticism
now it would be right
if we could learn to write nothing
when
when half a kingdom is exchanged for a poem
and half –
for a clean piece of paper
© 1990, Mykola Ryabchuk and R.A. Jamieson
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
From: Edinburgh Review, no.86, 1990
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