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Ivan Malkovych
Southern Ukraine
The spirit of Cimmerian silverand furs has not withered here,
the quiet dignity of these
majestic women has not faded.
An unquenched earthy lust
rushes through them like a wild river.
Look: regiments of brave warriors
grow in their wombs.
I know what land this is,
I know what rule prevailed here:
these women still possess
the spirit of matriarchy.
© Translation: 2000, Bohdan Boychuk and Myrosia Stefaniuk
From: A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry
Publisher: Litopys, Lviv, 2000
From: A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry
Publisher: Litopys, Lviv, 2000
SOUTHERN UKRAINE
© 1991, Ivan Malkovych
From: Poems
Publisher: Ukrains’kyj Pys’mennyk, Kyiv
From: Poems
Publisher: Ukrains’kyj Pys’mennyk, Kyiv
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SOUTHERN UKRAINE
From: Poems
Southern Ukraine
The spirit of Cimmerian silverand furs has not withered here,
the quiet dignity of these
majestic women has not faded.
An unquenched earthy lust
rushes through them like a wild river.
Look: regiments of brave warriors
grow in their wombs.
I know what land this is,
I know what rule prevailed here:
these women still possess
the spirit of matriarchy.
© 2000, Bohdan Boychuk and Myrosia Stefaniuk
From: A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry
Publisher: 2000, Litopys, Lviv
From: A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry
Publisher: 2000, Litopys, Lviv
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