3 Aug 2026, 14:29 UTC17 views4 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Mikhail Lomonosov
(1747)
The marriage feels quite good, though nuisances are plenty,
I won't refer to clothes: when woman is by twenty,
Whatever's on looks fine. It can be hard, however,
For your own wallet, losing weight in such endeavor.
The worst of things is stubbornness in every question,
Contentious answers and unbearable suggestions!
As an example, there's a story of a guy,
Whose wife has sunk into a river …
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23 Jul 2026, 11:19 UTC39 views7 reactionsread 11 August 2026 I'm a bar stripper dancer; I dance for the wage –
Have you seen me embracing the pole on the stage?
Have you seen my fine buttocks move right in the rhythm,
Have you seen my firm breasts – proof of my narcissism?
All my loyal spectators don't skimp on the bills:
Push them through my bikini, toss under my heels.
They are old men, as usual, long-bearded and dear,
Bet they think: "Phew, she's not MY granddaughter! I'm…
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21 Jul 2026, 13:28 UTC38 viewsread 11 August 2026 Momento Mori
The Last Words
The patient lay there, dying of cirrhosis,
Alcoholism, hep, and HIV.
You can imagine what was her prognosis:
No miracles. Death pressed the final key.
The patient lay there – yellow, desiccated,
Aware that the drapes were closing fast.
"Oh, Goodness! What a life I had! Elated!
Was walking tall! Bright! Chicly! At full blast!"
She vomited: dark, bloody, bubbling fluid.
She's dying ‐ easi…
16 Jul 2026, 16:50 UTC48 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Увидела у Екатерины Струценко интересную метафору и обратила на нее внимание, потому что младшая сейчас учится шить. Переводить стих полностью я не собиралась, просто рассказываю ход мыслей в рамках #translating_challenge
В голове сразу пронеслось:
Sewing Motherland smoothly with stitches –
Each of them in the human height long –
А потом возник некий ступор, ибо подобрать адекватную рифму к "stitches" оказалось дос…
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11 Jul 2026, 08:34 UTC60 views4 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Dinara Kerimova
An extract from "A Poem for the Fourth"
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It's winter. I inearthed my student lately:
Killed in the fights for Marinka. Bad-fate-ly,
Stormtrooper squad was practically smashed.
His mother's screams above the dead, voice crushed:
"Revive, my son, or let me die along!".
Me, standing there infinitely long,
Believing, praying she could bring him back
And change the course of time, deceive or hack
His fa…
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4 Jul 2026, 11:18 UTC62 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Очень интересно (есть ли такая статистика?), назовут ли новорожденных мальчиков Константинами в июле 2026 чуть чаще, чем в другое время? Как и Артемов в мае 23го? Как и Авдеев в февраля 24го? Видно будет через несколько лет, когда они пойдут в школу.
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2 Jul 2026, 11:57 UTC66 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Tanya Vityaz
Those men, who have seen it, don't talk of it wide,
No "beautiful stories" to boast of tomorrow,
And each of them keeps what he saw deep inside —
For War is the pain, War is tears, War is sorrow.
The War is the soul of your dear old friend,
Who comes to your dreams, mutely asking and restless;
The War is the grief of the mothers who spend
Their long mournful lives without sons, nurturing pastness.
The…
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17 Jun 2026, 14:19 UTC109 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Вопрос: Использую ли я ИИ для перевода?
Ответ: Нет. ИИ переводы примитивны и неодухотворенны. Пока. Не исключено, что в скором времени стихотворный ИИ перевод дойдет и до тех вершин, до которых он добрался в прозе и техническом переводе (технические переводчики, увы, ваш век все....). Но не сейчас. Робот пока не чувствует духа стиха и воспринимает текст часто в прямом смысле, нежели в переносном или скрытом. Плюс, ин…
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17 Jun 2026, 09:13 UTC81 views8 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Andrey Polonsky
(1958-2025)
About Powerlessness
People die at wars - are killed, as usual,
Does not matter - ours, theirs... All.
If it's "killing you" and "feels so crucial",
Make the war end quickly: once, for all.
But because you can't, since you are forceless -
Women's howl is heard from every side,
Children die of shellings so remorseless,
And the funerals can't be uneyed.
Sing not of the Battles of the Natio…
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17 Jun 2026, 09:13 UTC65 views7 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Andrey Polonsky
(1958-2025)
Into the sea of silence,
Rivers flow right along.
Hopefully, people will gather
After the war before long.
They'll have many things to remember
From times when the War grew Her fat,
Seduced almost all to Her chamber,
But took the best ones just like that.
The host will break fish, bread, if any,
Pour hooch of some pricey brand:
Let's toast for the dead. So many
Of them perished for this…
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17 Jun 2026, 09:13 UTC63 views5 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Andrey Polonsky
(1958-2025)
If the aliens were coming,
We would stand together all
In the single chain. And, humming,
Would stay solid, like a wall.
But so far, the practice teaches:
Things are earthy, same again -
Same is booze, the same are speeches,
And the panzers, gentlemen.
Tender friend and hostile clown,
Barking dogs and women's bawls.
You should hit the neighbour town,
To prevent them hitting yours.
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17 Jun 2026, 09:13 UTC72 views8 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Andrey Polonsky
(1958-2025)
Lead! (feel it like you're able?)
If not - just sing a song.
Your guns are chant and fable,
That follow you along.
A lover, a protester,
At peace, at war (not least!),
You - called to be a jester -
Proceed to act a priest.
Up to the ass in blood, though,
Stern idols are still strong.
But you - sharp, funny, drunk - go,
Explode them with a song!
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Веди, умеешь если,
А не умеешь -…
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