Section: Poetry Desk
The Mother of God at Badon Hill
El Fasher in the Snow • Speak
St. Seraphim in His Hermitage
Our Figurehead
Blessing of the Waters
And once again, you are joined to the eternal source…
A Dog Contemplates Eternity
A Dog for Jesus.
I wish someone had given Jesus a dog.As loyal and loving as mine.To sleep by His manger and gaze in His eyesAnd adore Him for being divine…
I Dream of Billions. I Dive Down. Feeding the Horses.
I dream of the billions blindly at business,their universe my bulging elasticperistaltic food tubes: densely-populatedcountry, from uplands to lowlands,each region with its own tribe…
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Poems
Elizabeth Scott Tervo
The Holy Mountain
Наша Ариадна [Our Ariadne], Glastnost Belle
Paradise
Translated by Richard Pevear
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The Vise
Little Song
Autumn Evening: God’s House and tarnation
Witness
Mother Maria Skobtsova
Yesteryear
“Hypatia”
After an argument
The Meeting
Leave-Taking of Pascha
Maine Triad
St. Gregory Nazianzen
At the Monastery
God, If You’re There, I’m Still Awake and It’s 4 A.M.
Market
In Need of Trees
Pre-Post-Liturgical Nap
Providing
So At Last
White Saturday
Translated by Liesl Coffin Behr
Notre Dame
Russian Spiritual Poems
The tradition of Russian spiritual poetry has a living freshness and a ring to it which can be felt and heard across all its historical periods. It has not been well served by English translation, however. Present-day English-language poetry has mostly lost the basic verse techniques that are necessary for translating traditional Russian verse.
Three Biblical Poems
Anna Akhmatova was one of the greatest poets of twentieth-century Russia. As a young woman, she visited France and Italy, where her portrait was drawn by Amedeo Modigliani. She lived through two world wars, the Stalinist terror, the Leningrad blockade and famine, and exile to Tashkent. She was banned from publishing for many years under[…..]
The Cross
The Side of Life
Poems
Translated by Manana MatiashviliEdited by Elizabeth Scott Tervo