Poetry from Mykyta Ryzhykh

2 poems (***)

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Dead as a broken moon

Sober as a leaf of a proud tree

Flimsy like pearls of dew in the wind

Tired like evaporated moisture

Free as the yolk in a broken egg

Quiet as a dead man in an evening cemetery

I drink the silence of calm before the execution

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V. Burich

Wanting love is like lying on the tram tracks

Water is jealous of the density of air in a smoky apartment

You smoke a lot and you’re addicted

I’m addicted to you and your night breath

I’m addicted to your airy body

You’re bending over with a roll-your-own cigarette in your mouth like a sexy snake

Let’s go drink the air of a park frozen in winter time

You won’t come and will continue to smoke alone

I’m also lonely but I don’t smoke

You will die of lung cancer, but I have already died of love for you

We say goodbye lying on two parallel tram tracks

We don’t even say goodbye we just resign ourselves to sleep

2 thoughts on “Poetry from Mykyta Ryzhykh

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  2. The second verse seems to me emblematic of the sort of toxic relationship which develops when two souls, each lacking something in their own lives, come together. They feel they have found what the both seek, to stoke the fires of rebirth, but all they really rediscovered were only the smouldering embers of future disappointment.

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