Monday, October 19, 2020

Lines for Marina Tsvetaeva - poem

 

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Lines for Marina Tsvetaeva

 

 

“Her poetry is…passion, pain, metaphor, and music.”

 

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

 

 

Her words soar over utilitarians

Past pale, pedantic propagandists who

Would wrench all poetry into a cause

As if verse were only propaganda

 

Her picture on a Penguin paperback

Embraces the viewer, stares back, dares back

Her eyes defiant, her arms folded in hope

Armored in her famous clunky jewelry

 

She bleeds onto the page, into the soul

Her words, suspended in truth against the age

 

 

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