 Poetry: January 07, 2015 Issue [#6761] |
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This week: Anna Akhmatova Edited by: Stormy Lady  
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Memory Of Sun
by Anna Akhmatova
Memory of sun seeps from the heart.
Grass grows yellower.
Faintly if at all the early snowflakes
Hover, hover.
Water becoming ice is slowing in
The narrow channels.
Nothing at all will happen here again,
Will ever happen.
Against the sky the willow spreads a fan
The silk's torn off.
Maybe it's better I did not become
Your wife.
Memory of sun seeps from the heart.
What is it? -- Dark?
Perhaps! Winter will have occupied us
In the night.
You Will Hear Thunder
by Anna Akhmatova
You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
That day in Moscow, it will all come true,
when, for the last time, I take my leave,
And hasten to the heights that I have longed for,
Leaving my shadow still to be with you.
Anna Gorenko was born on June 23, 188, into an upper-class family in Odessa, the Ukraine. Anna’s father did not want her to write poetry, he wanted her to go to law school and graduate and not shame the family name. Anna decided to change her pen name to Anna Akhmatova, it was her great-grandmothers maiden name. In 1910 Anna married fellow poet and critic Nikolai Gumilev. Shortly after the two married her husband began to travel leaving Anna behind. In 1912 the couple had a son Lev, who Anna left with her parents to raise. She only visited him for the holidays.
Anna’s first publication was Evening's in 1912, followed by, Rosary in 1914. It was well received by the public and Anna became well known as a poet. In 1918 Anna and her husband divorced. Anna then married Vladimir Shileiko in 1918, whom she divorced in 1928. Her third marriage was to Nikolai Punin, who died in a Siberian labor camp in 1953. After Anna’s first husband was executed in 1921, she had a very hard time finding a publisher. Even though the two had divorced many people still associated her with him. Her book Anno Domini MCMXXI was published in 1922. It was said that there was an unofficial ban on Akhmatova's poetry from 1925 until 1940. In 1940 she published a book that contained several of her previously published poems. The book only sold a few copies and was eventually taken off the selves. Anna faced heavy censorship of her work for many years. Her most accomplished work, Requiem, was not published in Russia until 1987. Her poem{ Without a Hero was her reaction to her life and her art being restricted.
Anna’s poetry told of her life and of the horror she lived and saw daily. Many of her poems were never published in the Soviet Union. Anna was awarded the Etna-Taormina prize in 1964 and at the age of 76, Akhmatova was chosen president of the Writers' Union. Akhmatova died in Leningrad, where she had spent most of life, on March 5, 1966. After her death Poems of Akhmatova was published in 1967, followed by Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova in 1985 and a complete book of Anna’s poetry was published in 1990 The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova.
Willow
by Anna Akhmatova
And I grew up in patterned tranquility,
In the cool nursery of the young century.
And the voice of man was not dear to me,
But the voice of the wind I could understand.
But best of all the silver willow.
And obligingly, it lived
With me all my life; it's weeping branches
Fanned my insomnia with dreams.
And strange!--I outlived it.
There the stump stands; with strange voices
Other willows are conversing
Under our, under those skies.
And I am silent...As if a brother had died.
Thank you all!
Stormy Lady
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Past—
icebound
tundra framed
by sylvan haunts
of waned ancestors—
whimpers for fellowship.
Deep cold; I should not linger,
for pain lurks in shadow and gust.
And I spy soft beam of light trickling
beyond ice and dark, lodestar to Present.
And then? I fear the blunt glare of Future.
Her fields await with damp, fertile soil,
but I've no crop to plant. Chances
mold before I free their seeds;
dreams shrivel to dust while
I'm trapped—entangled
in hours and hours'
blind stumbling
'round raw
Past.
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