#RussianPoetry
I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.

Anna Akhmatova
23.6.1889

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June 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
OH WIRE WHERE IS YOUR BIRD?

I carry Sorrow, a grey
bird, sluggish, in my chest

О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м

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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝘁𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼 -

Hard-lived and ironically-distanced nostalgia; bleak pleas against violence and horror.

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May 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺𝘀" 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝘁𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼 -

The not-uncontroversial Yevtushenko, a Soviet-Russian poet, moved through the political upheavals.

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O dig me a hole in your hair,
swaddle me without flax.
Myrrh-bearer! What do I need with myrrh?
You washed round me
like a wave.

“Christ to Magdalene,” Marina Tsvetaeva, 1923

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April 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM
He has been published in Vozdukh, Polutona, Translit, Stenograme, GRЁZA, and TextOnly, and was shortlisted for the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize (2020). Ulunov lives in Moscow. #RussianPoetry #Literature (7/8)
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM