Alexander Shaumyan Poems

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11.
Down The Rabbit Hole Of Mathematical Uncertainty

Down the rabbit hole
We go and go,
Following infinite
Decimal rows
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12.
Bleed No More

Bleed no more, bleed no more, my love-
Just go in peace towards your destination,
For in this life my eyes have seen enough,
Enough of broken promises and frustrations.
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13.
Old Poets Drink Café Au Lait

Old poets drink café au lait,
While children snicker in the yard,
Saying that poetry is gay,
Deriding the pretentious bards.
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14.
Place Where Light Is

In these cold rainy nights,
In these streets, in these dreams
I'll walk in my solitude
To a place where light is.
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15.
Convergence

A convergence has brought us all here
From the talking heads peddling fear
And the deluge of perpetual lies
From pandemics to genocides.
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16.
Razor-Sharp Love

razor-sharp love
I want
all of you
but there just isn't
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17.
The Healing Wind

In this healing wind
all our scars of the
past are blown away,
torn away and scattered
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18.
In Praise Of Philistines

'Russians have, or had, a special name for smug philistinism - poshlust. Poshlism is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive. To apply the deadly label of poshlism to something is not only an esthetic judgment but also a moral indictment. The genuine, the guileless, the good is never poshlust. It is possible to maintain that a simple, uncivilized man is seldom if ever a poshlust since poshlism presupposes the veneer of civilization. A peasant has to become a townsman in order to become vulgar. A painted necktie has to hide the honest Adam's apple in order to produce poshlism.'
-Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

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19.
Command Of The Language

I have the command of the language
When it comes to frisky sex and
Mathematics,
For I adore every conic section
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20.
She Storms My Brain

She storms my brain
in psychedelic colors
and discordant rhythms,
leaving me breathless
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