Julia Klimenova Poems

Pangs of joy
Piercing, acute
Unexpected
Stab like a knife.
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There is no final truth in life,
No questions that can just be settled
Once and for all. We don't arrive
At any terminus. Accept it.
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In the rush hour
On the subway
Fantasizing:
If the time could
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Through the fields I went.
Breath of the wind, smell of the earth.
Not a soul in sight.
Barefoot, the grass tickling my feet.
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Reading for days, months, years
Somebody else's thoughts,
Swallowing them so fast
There's hardly time to chew.
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You have a face of a nun,
Of a saint.
Oh, let me paint you! -
I'm a sinner. Why
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Cyber tango.
Two poets dancing.
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Why do we FALL in love?
Is it a sin?
Are we like aircraft gone
Into a spin?
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I bear the burden of your love.
It is a debt I won't repay.
It weighs me down, I bend, I hunch.
How can I make you go away?
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It was late spring.
That day I woke
And felt my things
Stare hard at me
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