So Vividly (Couplets) Poem by Gert Strydom

(After Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin)

So vividly I do remember,
it was near the first of September,

where suddenly I was of you aware
and next to me you were right there.

As if you jumped from my dreams
(a trick of the mind to me it seems)

but outside was a cooing dove
and you said: "it's you that I love."

[Reference: magic moment I remember" by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.


Poet's note: I am quoting this great poem by Alexander Sergeyevich Sergeyevich Pushkin right here:

'A magic moment I remember' by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

'A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare
I pray to mute despair and anguish,
To vain the pursuits world esteems,
Long did I hear your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.
Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.
In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me
No one to cry for, live for, love.
Then came a moment of reinessance,
I looked up - you again are there
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare.']