Sunday, May 16, 2010

Boris Pasternak

The lilacs were in bloom on the day of your death.

Consecrated by Moscow’s golden cupolas,

You boomed and sang, the storm’s hierophant,

Tenderness and courage in those huge amber eyes.

That sovereign stallion’s head, alert to vibrations,

Shot out laser glances at the strangest tangents,

Catching nature unawares. Erupting in centrifugal

Genesis, you stormed the silence with ecstasies,

Obedient to destiny’s strictures, never failing

To praise life with an awkward seraph’s joy.

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