December 30: We Got Married, You And I Poem by Liza Sud

December 30: We Got Married, You And I

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December 30: we got married, you and I,
but not in the way as it's usually done by people.
One who crowned us was tetrameter Amphibrach
while the others do not even know about this miracle.

You were writing to me, and in breathing by your blood -
that's your life - a magical note-string was interacted,
and it resonated in my answer lines of love,
and in the same rhythm, hearts of ours were united.

That is how wind is: what for is he and where from?
who created him and where is his source and beginning?
is he always alone, or he doesn't exist at all?
is he breath of God, so even in shine and gleaming?

Does this movement have the purpose to unite all -
elements in literal harmony as in one wall,
where behind love the same rhythm was foretold before,
and as if to catch God Himself, you and I could catch it!

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Мы с тобой поженились 30 декабря,
но не так, как это обычно делают люди.
Амфибрахий четырехстопный нас повенчал,
а другие даже не знают об этом чуде.

Ты писала мне, и в дыхание твоя кровь -
твоя жизнь волшебную ноту-струну вложила,
и она отозвалась строчками про любовь,
и в едином ритме два сердца объединила.

Так бывает ветер: откуда он и зачем,
кем он создан и где движенья его начало?
он всегда одинокий, и есть ли он вообще,
или Бога дыханье, ровное, так сияло?

И не хочет ли это движенье объединить
все стихии в буквальной гармонии, как стеною,
где за каждой любовью предсказан один ритм,
и его поймали, как Господа, мы с тобою!

Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: marriage,poetry
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 25 January 2017

The time frame of your poem startled me, because it is projected a few days into the future as if it were the present. In the first stanza the marriage ceremony has a breathtaking grandeur and formality. The second stanza is the poem's centerpiece in which an exchange of writings establishes ties of love, emphatically affirmed in the closing words HEARTS OF OURS WERE UNITED. In the third stanza the image of the WIND links the terrestrial with the eternal, with the wind image raised to the BREATH OF GOD. In the last stanza marriage as a union of two is presented as a metaphor of a universal union of humanity under God. So the whole poem is a flight to a higher state of being. It is a poetic vision not a theological treatise so you don't argue or rationalize, and that means your poem is also an Act of Faith as well as a Vision of the Future.

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