viacheslav kupriyanov Poems

Once we possessed a red balloon
We filled it up with smoke
Forgetting, what we'd learn too soon:
A red balloon's no joke!
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Poems fly up in the sky like airplanes
They easily go up into the clouds
They are not touched by lightening
They are not frightened by thunder
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O little island, do please stay,
You have one life, no more, no more,
By breaking in the waves, the waves,
You still will reach the ocean floor.
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Man
invented the cage
before
inventing wings
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yellow
black
white
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RUSSIA'S DREAM

Russia sleeps in a cold dew
and dreams
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Global
guff
traverses
the great ocean
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One thing that we learned in our time full of shame.
We all know to cringe when we hear evil's name:
Oh please do not blame us
For justly infamous: Tsar Hippo-po-tamus!
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Disappearance. In due course it becomes obvious
How sorry you are even for a cloud floating away. Flowers' disappearance
Embarrasses a sensitive soul, though
The garden itself remains as cool as a cucumber. Disappearance of snow
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परों के फैलने से पूर्व
आदमी ने
कर दिया आविष्कार पिंजड़ों का.
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