Tom-Tom Is Also The Music Poem by Kseniya Rundel

Birds and beasts fallen into prostration.
Air's trembled... What's there bum-bum?
What’s this booming and rumbling vibration?
For the battle calls an African’s drum! ...

It is odd but a drum is also the music
In concerts... in wars… and in funs …
A little wooden stick-stick beats the air tight tum -
One little wooden stick or two little ones,

But no more... And a heart so zealously
is driving rhythm and is splintering the space.
Will it drum upon you like a wooden tom-tom,
my Tom-tom, will it reach out to thee?


by Pavel V. Konovalov

translated from Russian