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Much like me, you make your way forward, Walking with downturned eyes. Well, I too kept mine lowered. Passer-by, stop here, please.
Read, when you've picked your nosegay Of henbane and poppy flowers, That I was once called Marina, And discover how old I was.
Don't think that there's any grave here, Or that I'll come and throw you out ... I myself was too much given To laughing when one ought not.
The blood hurtled to my complexion, My curls wound in flourishes ... I was, passer-by, I existed! Passer-by, stop here, please.
And take, pluck a stem of wildness, The fruit that comes with its fall -- It's true that graveyard strawberries Are the biggest and sweetest of all.
All I care is that you don't stand there, Dolefully hanging your head. Easily about me remember, Easily about me forget.
How rays of pure light suffuse you! A golden dust wraps you round ... And don't let it confuse you, My voice from under the ground.
Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva
Read poems about / on: remember, light, wind, flower
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