Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Nikolai Gumilyov







 Acrostic (Акростих)

Addis Ababa, city of roses.
Near the bank of transparent streams, 
No earthly devas brought you here,
A diamond, amidst gloomy gorges.

Armidin garden … There a pilgrim
Keeps his oath of obscure love
(Mind,we all bow before him),
And the roses cloy, the roses red.

There, full of deceit and venom,
Ogles some gaze into the soul,
Via forests of tall sycamores,
And alleyways of dusky planes.

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