By Stars I Am - Uranus, Subtle Genius, Poem by Liza Sud

By Stars I Am - Uranus, Subtle Genius,

By Stars I am - Uranus, subtle genius,
A secret Councillor, and a gray cardinal,
the third eye of celestial revealings,
Sapphire of love, Financial adamant.

I - am chess queen that excels king in swiftness,
I'm - arrogant, detached dispassionate look,
I do not know how to make deals with pawns,
but I love them, because God saved them too.

From Christ - I have desire for embracing,
From devil - the desire to execute.
desire not to give up - comes from Leo,
form Virgo - swim in words with quietude.

Now, after I've learned poetry, its light flight,
and that it is - the heaven's airplanes -
I mount them at any time unhampered,
and rise above the earth with confidence.


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По звездам я - Уран, коварный гений,
советник тайный, серый кардинал,
Я - третий глаз небесных откровений,
сапфир любви, финансовый алмаз.

Я - ферзь, который короля быстрее,
высокомерный, отстраненный взгляд,
я с пешками общаться не умею,
но я люблю их, ибо Бог их спас.

Мне от Христа - желанье обниматься,
от дьявола - желание казнить.
от Льва во мне - желанье не сдаваться,
от Дев желанье - тихим словом плыть.

Теперь, познав поэзии полетность,
и что она - небесный самолет -
сажусь в него в любой момент свободно,
и над землей свершаю свой полет

Friday, December 16, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: self discovery
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 16 December 2016

WOW, LIZA! This is so eloquent! And I love eloquence of language and gesture. Eloquent language is the first thing to to fly, it is symbolic of, and preparatory to the poet's flight above the world into the empyrean that you predict and dramatize in the last stanza. By identifying the sources of your poetic gifts you display appropriate gratitude, and kin any spiritual endeavor gratitude is so important. Otherwise the recipient of such poetic grace becomes ego-inflated and botches the whole spiritual journey. You are clear about the gifts you received and the purposes to which you dedicate them. I can sense Pasternak, Ahkmatova, Blok, Brodsky, Tsvetaeva - all of them nodding in affirmation and agreeing, THIS IS HOW SHE DISCOVERED HERSELF AS A POET: SHE HAS FOUND THE TRUE PATH.

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