M.Tsvetaeva, Your Poem Is Needless - Translation (Rus.) Poem by Lyudmila Purgina

Marina Tsvetaeva


- Your poem is rubbish
As the grandma's dream...
- But that's for the other
Times were seen.

- Your poem is plague
As the grandpa's sigh.
- But that's for the other
Ages were tried.

- In age of five - the whole
World was dreamed!
- Your dream five only,
Mine - for five centuries.

- Go, where the days!
- The days're passing by...
- Go, where we gain.
- The blind still do guide.

And will there be
The poetry in Russia?
Ask better the stream,
The issues ask then.

14.09.1931