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Elena Shalina
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TURKEY: STRANGE, STRANGE THINGS ... /Pamukkale, December' 98/
1 | 2 Is this road already waiting for us?
Is this a step we are supposed to take?
A thousand questions with no answers ...A midnight guest
CZECH MOUNTAINS /near Decin, September' 98/
1 | 2 "The Elbe, being a principal Bohemian river, flows on it's way between the Bohemian town Decin and the German Pirna through a deep meandering canyon, fringed by sandstone walls and towers.
It is from the fringe walls that plenty of magnificent views on the river are avialable..." /from Guidebook/
Yes, wonderful views! ;
PIZA, FLORENCE, MOUNTAINS ... /Italy, March' 98/
1 | 2 | 3 The old familiar sights of ours
Took marmarvellous shapes; strange domes and towers
Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood,
Or garden-wall, or belt of wood;
The well-curb had a Chinese roof;
And even the long sweep, high aloof,
In its slant splendor, seemed to tell
Of Piza's learning miracle ...John Whittier
CRYMEA, LOOK THROUGH .../Yalta, Alupka, Foros, October' 98/
1 | 2 | 3 This lunar beauty
Has no history
Is complete and early;
If beauty later
Bear and feature
It had a lover
And is another...Wystan Auden
THROUGH PERMEABLE MIRRORS /St.Petersburg, August' 98
1 | 2 Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow...
Live is very long...Thomas Eliot
FOLLOW ZEN-STONES /Vyborg, April' 98/
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Of course you're always, and never Alone. -Like leaves on bushes, pebbles on stone Woke up that morning on the floor In a foreign house, and knew Nothing, -just like any any other day Dan Turell |
FOLLOW TREES CLOSELY /St.Petersburg's suburbs, spring' 98/
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The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves, The full round moon and the star-laden sky, And the loud songs of the ever-singing leaves, Has hid away earth's old and very cry... William Yeats |
My e-mail: gard@gard.spb.org