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• A Fragment from Gumilev (2). Translated from the Russian by Simon R Gladdish
  by Rusty Woodward Gladdish

  Imr There were Pleiades in the sky, as on a woman’s dress, / Diamonds, full of fire. / Her brothers walked patrols, / And every one of th…

  Imr There were Pleiades in the sky, as on a woman’s dress, / Diamonds, full of fire. / Her brothers walked patrols, / And every one of them wanted to destroy me. / But I sneaked into her like a serpent. / Already she was undressed for bed / And said: ” I won’t be yours, / Why won’t you meet me openly? “ / But anyway gave into me, we used / A counterpane to cover up the traces. / So we came there where calyxes of white lilies / Stand proudly in the middle of the water. / There I took her head in my hands and / She threw her arms around my torso. / How hot her mouth was, her shining breasts / Could only be compared to mirrors, / Her eyes were timid, as the eyes of a gazelle / With her young calf, / And since then the stupefying smell / Of musk in my bed is ineradicable. / … But what’s the matter? Why you are crying?

• A Fragment from Gumilev. Translated from the Russian by Simon R Gladdish
  by Rusty Woodward Gladdish

  A Fragment from Gumilev. / / Translated from the Russian by Simon R Gladdish The whole night I saw strange and wonderful images. ...

  A Fragment from Gumilev. / / Translated from the Russian by Simon R Gladdish The whole night I saw strange and wonderful images. / All night long my soul was on an execution rack. / An eagle was turning in unknown skies, / And its scream was like the clash of steel swords. / But frequently in the shriek of steel / A shrill and inconsolable cry was breaking, / There were some lights shining … / And crying … and my heart was jumping like a ball. / There was a dark shame, inevitable as death, / Which weighs heavier than death … / After the woman, so loved, / The shame was creeping in dark lanes. / I awoke … The morning was so clear, / And the air was impregnated by roses. / But I know, that it was not in vain / This dreadful and beautiful dream.

• RedBubble Video
  by Madison Ellis

  Here is a link to 2 redbubble videos that i made…. Video Video 2...

  Here is a link to 2 redbubble videos that i made…. Video Video 2 I just wanted to say THANKS to those in the videos that are from the bubblemania group that allow people to use their photos for advertisement: / / Redbubble Planet-Carlos Teofilo / Liquid Heat- Annamarie / Beyond-Neil Johnson / Vision-Malin Nordlund / Aqua Girl- Laurie McClave / The Head Scarf-Malen / California Sunset-Dennis Knecht / Starboard-Dan Jesperson / La Luna-Loren Loppolo / Falling Leaves- Jazzyjane / YeeeeHaaaaa-Tom Godfrey / Perfect Storm-Matt White / When The Music Fades-Pal Gyomai / Sleeping Beauty-Malen / By Request-Gino Lori / Love Bug-MorganAshley / Plumaria Love 2-MorganAshley / Glory-Sydney Harbor-Philip Johnson / The King-Matt Mawson / Angel’s Breath & Heaven’s Portal- John E. Adams Also Thanks to those who are not in the bubblemania group who allowed me to use thier photos: Fiji sunrise, Moody Sunrise, & Washed Away-Henk Stolk / Floating On Clouds, Trapped in a child’s dream, Shhh…!, One wish of the moon fairy, I want my dad, & The moon tower-Sylvia Hardy / Tower mill, Moon Light, & Somewhere-Linifer / The Rosebud, Angelo, Muse, The Little prince, & Eye Spy-Loren Loppolo / ~The Rag Doll, The Rainy Day, Heaven Can Wait, Make A Wish, Les Tempes Des Serises, The Sea, The Chinese Dress-Malen and Thanks you MorganAshley for helping me edit the video!!! / I LOVE YOU girl!!! Please let me know what you guys think of the video!!!!

• Matryoshka Doll Series
  by Karin Taylor

  I am beginning a new series! and it lots of fun :D The Matryoshka Family are on Holiday in Oz! Matryoshka Dolls on Holidays are f…

  I am beginning a new series! and it lots of fun :D The Matryoshka Family are on Holiday in Oz! Matryoshka Dolls on Holidays are featuring on my greeting cards over the next few days at Red Bubble….ie these are a family of six Russian Dolls who are currently on holiday in Australia, you cannot miss them as they are wearing bikinis and sarongs, which with their fat little figures is just a little bit outrageous…..and quite a bit different from their usual winter attire over in Russia where it’s sooo cold….anyway, they’ll be popping up all over the place on Red Bubble, as they make their way ‘round all the tourist spots! Here is a look at the first three so far….more to come :D Matryoshka Family in the Pink from ‘Matryoshka Series’ cards by Karin Taylor / Matryoshka Family Purple Day from ‘Matryoshka Series’ cards by Karin Taylor / Matryoshka on Holiday on White /

• A great movie by a great artist
  by maka1967

  Andrei Rublev (1969) by Andrei Tarkovsky. The movie, through narrative of the life of the great icon painter, tells of the life of th…

  Andrei Rublev (1969) by Andrei Tarkovsky. The movie, through narrative of the life of the great icon painter, tells of the life of the 15th-century Russians, a turbulent period in Russian history. It also displays Tarkovsky’s perfect technique. There are videos at Youtube. For examples: Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublev w/ commentary / Tarkovsky on Art Part One

• A Fragment from Gumilev (3). Translated from the Russian by Simon R Gladdish
  by Rusty Woodward Gladdish

  Theodora Now you are safe with me, / A hermit cannot speak / Much less a dead one. The time has come / To frankly speak the truth. / I ha…

  Theodora Now you are safe with me, / A hermit cannot speak / Much less a dead one. The time has come / To frankly speak the truth. / I have always hated you - / For your thin hands, for your sad sight / And for the calmness, as though through tiredness / Of your movements and your speech. / You have lived like a bird of an / Extinct breed, and about you / Even the slaves spoke with alarm. / There is ancient Roman blood in you; / My blood is plebian and all the better for it. / You were just a girl yesterday, / Over whom an angel was inclined. / I know about taverns and brothels, / Where knives flash because of women, where / By drunken sailors I was comforted. / But I am purer than you and in front of you / I stand with horror and disgust. / The dirt of palaces, the defects of your ancestors, / The treachery and meanness of Byzantium / Flow in your ignorant and childish body, / Alive now, as sometimes death lives / In the plants of a plague cemetery. / You think you are a woman, but you / Represent a poisoned wedding tunic / And each of your steps – destruction, / And your sight – disease, / And your touch – disaster! / The Tsar of Trabzon has died and Imr will die, / But you are alive, smelling sweetly of decay. / Pray! But I am afraid of your prayers, / To me they are a blasphemy!

• A Fragment from Gumilev (4). Translated from the Russian by Simon R Gladdish
  by Rusty Woodward Gladdish

  Eunuch: I met / The Tsar of Trabzon, when / This hall he left at midday, / And though I hadn’t eaten, / He took my hand and led me / Toward…

  Eunuch: I met / The Tsar of Trabzon, when / This hall he left at midday, / And though I hadn’t eaten, / He took my hand and led me / Towards Saint Sofia’s Cathedral. / He was silent, only once he asked me, / Whether by a Scythian tradition / A body had been buried beneath the temple’s base / So that the walls stay firmly put / And the majestic columns will not split; / I crossed myself and answered, / ‘Why, this superstition is unworthy of / Either the Emperor or Byzantium.’ / He smiled and again / Fell silent. / You know this temple; / On narrow, shaky ladders, planked footways, / Among monstrous timbers like the edges / Of a Levi fan or hippopotamus, / We climbed to where the architect thinks / From clay pots he will raise a dome. / My companion stood at a terrible height / With his face turned south, gilded by the sun, / Like an uncertain spirit, he began to speak. / I listened, clinging to the handrail. / He spoke that this city - / Its buildings, palaces and roadways, / As all words, wills and thoughts, / Which own a person, / Are a heritage to the living from the dead. / That there are two worlds, between themselves unequal: / In one, extensive, there are geniuses, heroes, / Filling the universe with glory, / But we their pitiable descendants occupy the other, / The slaves of necessity and fate. / Then he said it wasn’t so terrible to die, / If Hercules and Julius Caesar have died, / If Maria and Jesus Christ have died, / And suddenly, having said Christ’s name, / He stepped forward, from the wall’s edge, where there is air / Penetrated by the midday flame … / And it seemed to me that he was standing / Above a chasm, having conquered terrestrial gravity; / In a horrible confusion I closed my eyes / For an instant, or a half of one; / When again I opened them, in front of me – / O, misfortune! – I saw nobody. How I descended on the planked footway, I do not remember … / There, behind the wall, people already mingled, / Crowding around a heap of meat and bones / Without a human image or likeness. / Our masons are severe: their / Favourite entertainments are animal fights, / Fisticuffs and night-time drunkenness, / But the weather-beaten faces trembled, / Tears shone in their gloomy eyes / When I cried before them, / That it was the body of the Tsar of Trabzon. / They loved him for his cheerfulness / For his courage, and his beauty, / As I loved him for his high spirits / And his ability to withstand torture. / And even – dare I say? – I heard / Some whispered curses / As they stared at the imperial palace; / They everywhere suspect betrayal.

• Cool Pictures - Crazy Russians
  by Tim Webster

  A friend of mine e-mailed me with a link to this webpage. Check it out. http://2photo.ru/2007/06/05/kreativnyjj_zhestkach_fotograf_ko…

  A friend of mine e-mailed me with a link to this webpage. Check it out. http://2photo.ru/2007/06/05/kreativnyjj_zhestkach_fotograf_koen_demuynck.html Incidentally, could someone point me towards instructions on establishing links? Cheers