MARINA BEZDENEZHNYH

 

* * *

Again the obsessive question arises

It's uninvited, unbidden:

What from the present

Will become the past in the future?

 

          * * *

Снова вопрос навязчивый

Бьётся незван, непрошен:

Что же из настоящего

В будущем станет прошлым?

 

* * *

I'm burning bridges...

I am on this side, you are on the other one.

And it's bitterly that you

Don't try to stop me.

I'm burning bridges,

I just secretly hope

That at the last moment

I will be able to cross it

On a charred plank.

 

* * *

Сжигаю мосты...

Ты на том берегу, я — на этом.

И горько, что ты

Не пытаешься мне помешать.

Сжигаю мосты,

Только втайне надеюсь при этом

В последний момент

По дощечке обугленной

Перебежать.

 

* * *

That's right – everything will stop hurting, never mind,

Everything will go away, everything will be settled...

But sometimes people can lose

When they stop fearing losses...

* * *

Верно, – все отболит, не беда,

Все пройдет, все должно устояться...

Но, бывает, теряют, когда

Перестанут потери бояться...

 

Physics Lesson

 Your hands drive me crazy,  

And again, our eyes are drowning in each other.

We are above the law,

Now we create laws ourselves –

 

The laws to believe and to twist nests...

Our shadows are rushing on the walls,

And that means, the law of love is in force,

The law of universal gravitation…

         

Урок физики

Ошалеваю от рук твоих,

И снова взгляды друг в друге тонут.

Закон не писан для нас двоих, –

Мы сами нынче творим законы –

 

Законы верить и гнёзда вить...

По стенам мечутся наши тени,

И значит, в силе закон любви –

Закон всемирного тяготенья...

 

          * * *

Somewhere the walls were crumbling – in the direct meaning,

Somewhere people sang, laughed, and argued...

 

Someone is making repairs in the kitchen,

Someone is making History there.

 

          * * *

Где-то рушились стены – в значенье прямом,

Где-то пели, смеялись и спорили…

 

У кого-то на кухне творится ремонт,

У кого-то – История.

 

* * *

You know, we are still happier than many others –

After us, at least something remains ...

Or at least we think so...

 

* * *

Знаешь, всё же мы счастливей многих –

После нас хоть что-то остаётся…

Или мы хотя бы так считаем…

 

Translated From Russian To English By Anastasia Sergeeva

 

МАРИНА БЕЗДЕНЕЖНЫХ

BEZDENEZHNYKH MARINA ALEXANDROVNA - poet. She was born in Omsk, USSR. She graduated from school, the philological faculty of Omsk State University, postgraduate studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, doctoral studies at Omsk State University. She worked at a school, was a correspondent for a large-circulation newspaper, taught at the Omsk State Pedagogical University, the Omsk Armored Engineering Institute, and headed the Department of Philological Education at the Institute for the Development of Education in the Omsk Region. Poems were published in collective collections, almanacs, anthologies and magazines in Omsk, Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Biysk, Tobolsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Ryazan, Chelyabinsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, etc. She is an author of poetry books "Morning" (Omsk, 1987), "Leafing Through Autumn" (Omsk, 1996), "Choice of Dominants" (Omsk, 2000), "Goal of the Game" (Omsk, 2001), "Frame-by-Frame" (Omsk, 2003), “Step Toward” (series “Library of Omsk Lyrics”, Omsk, 2009), “Motherboard” (Omsk, 2014), “Spreading the Space” (series “Poetry of the Omsk Lukomorye”, Omsk, 2021). Since 1993 M.A. Bezdenezhnykh is a member of the Council of Curators of the Students Scientific Society "Poisk", permanently leads the direction "Literary Creativity" in the region, she is the chairman of the jury of the direction at the regional stages of the Scientific and Practical Conferences of schoolchildren and students of the region. From 1991 to 1995, she was the head of the literary studio of the OmSPU, from 1995 to the present, she is the head of the regional literary association attached to the Omsk regional public organization of the Writers' Union of Russia. She is a winner of the international festival "Forest Lake" (Borovoe-2007), the 10th International Literary Festival "Under the Ryazan Sky" (Ryazan, 2013). She is a winner of the twice Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of Aviation N. Skomorokhov prize (1997), a winner of L. Martynov regional literary prize (2009), a winner of V. Makarov regional literary prize (2012), a winner of M. Shangin regional literary prize (2021), a winner of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak All-Russian literary prize (2016). She was awarded the medal "For Service to Literature" (2012). Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of Pedagogy, Psychology and Social Work of the Omsk Humanitarian Academy. Author of many scientific publications (articles, anthologies, manuals, etc.), the monograph "Language Portrait of the Omsk Poetry School: Vocabulary and Phraseology" (Omsk, 2012). She is a member of the Writer's Union of Russia since 1994, a board member of the Omsk regional public organization of the Writer's Union of Russia, a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Literary Omsk".