Into Vrubel's Paintings Poem by Liza Sud

Into Vrubel's Paintings

You shine like a sapphire in your paintings,
and your eyes are filled with the pain that burns
as the Elf- King you promise me the treasures,
your diamonds are hanging on the wall.

They dragged me to the sky, are always dragging -
giant imploring and beseeching eyes
they play by facets in the rays of sapphires,
as the eternal beauty of our life.

The flash of sparks, and then again smoke fogging,
and glance becomes dark and full of remorse,
in synchrony - the fire and enticement,
it seems to me: it is hell that I learn.

Who told you? - that Hell can have no beauty?
It is caressing - holy side of God.
It; s He - the hand and thread of fine that ruins,
And He keeps you in hell, as dear mom.

And if in the sky you are suddenly scared,
and it seems to you - hell goes to collapse-
then by John of Kronstadt you'll be reminded
that all the hells - right as His temple stand.

And in His orbit there are no failures,
And every millimeter is controlled:
in your escape somewhere over the cliff,
and in His Sapphire's royal answer 'No'.



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В своих картинах ты сияешь как сапфиры.
Болезненно горит твой взгляд,
как Царь Лесной, сокровища сулишь мне,
твои алмазы на стене висят.

Они меня на небо утащили -
гигантские просящие глаза
играют гранями в лучах сапфиров,
как вечная живая Красота.

то вспышки искр, то снова задымленья,
и темный, полный покаянья взгляд,
в синхронности огня и соблазненья,
мне кажется: я вижу ад.

кто вам сказал? - ад может быть прекрасен!
ласкающий - святого Бога грань.
Ведь Он - рука и нити наказаний,
Он и в аду хранит тебя, как мать.

и если вдруг на небе станет страшно,
и кажется - обрушивался ад -
тебе напомнит Иоанн Кронштадтский,
что все ады - как храм Его стоят.

В Его орбитах не бывает срывов,
Ведь Им просчитан каждый миллиметр,
и твой побег куда-то над обрывом,
и от Сапфира царственное 'Нет'.

Into Vrubel's Paintings
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Kumarmani Mahakul 08 October 2016

Marvellous expression. Interesting to read. Thanks.

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Daniel Brick 07 October 2016

I can see Vrubel's style in the painting you posted above: he uses a thick brush saturated with oil paint to achieve these dense surfaces. And yet the woman's face is soft, even radiant. She may be a royal person but she also seems humble. Your poem expands the scope of reference when you connect the visions of this Symbolist artist with visions of supernatural reality. From what I've learned this is what Russian Symbolists were seeking: a higher truth, a path to the Divine, an expression of the Sacred. It's manifest in Blok's and Solovyov's Sophia poems. And so I see Vrubel's female figure as an embodiment of that spiritual being. Your poem expresses your spiritual quest in your own words, but I sense its connections to these earlier artists who directed their eyes and souls toward the Divine Meeting. Solovyov wrote: THE ETERNAL FEMININE IN HER INCORRUPTIBLE BODY IS COMING TO THE EARTH. And he warns demons to surrender to her purity.

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