Marina Tsvetaeva - Oct. 9, 1892 - 1941, suicide… - Russian poet and an intensely emotional, obsessive person whose personal life is dotted with passionate affairs and friendships with both men and women, including Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak (a long-distance love affair through correspondence), and Sophia Parnok (who was also a poet)…
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Our sweet companions—sharing your bunk and your bed
The versts and the versts and the versts and a hunk of your bread
The wheels’ endless round
The rivers, streaming to ground
The road…
Oh the heavenly the Gypsy the early dawn light
Remember the breeze in the morning, the steppe silver-bright
Wisps of blue smoke from the rise
And the song of the wise
Gypsy czar…
In the dark midnight, under the ancient trees’ shroud
We gave you sons as perfect as night, sons
As poor as the night
And the nightingale chirred
Your might…
We never stopped you, companions for marvelous hours
Poverty’s passions, the impoverished meals we shared
The fierce bonfire’s glow
And there, on the carpet below,
Fell stars…(Poetry, 2008, read her notes here)
