Thursday, 14 February 2019
Happy Valentine’s Day from Writing In A Woman’s Voice with “My Silver Star” by Marina Kazakova.
The poem “My Silver Star” is published in “Writing In A Woman’s Voice”, edited by Beate Sigriddaughter, showcasing women’s writing.
Beate Sigriddaughter has been the poet laureate of Silver City, New Mexico, since 2017. She publishes a blog called Writing In A Woman’s Voice, where she features other women’s poetry. For her own poems, she has been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize.
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I see you from afar,
a silver star,
a figure in a scarf,
serious and nonchalant!
I am flying up the stairs,
passing through cars and stares,
landing into your arms –
wild and stunned.
I imagine all of your gestures
and how you’ll be saying
words and expressions,
and how all the people around you
will dare to be themselves.
And then I think
how serenely you’ll be walking
towards the park,
where we hire a blue boat,
how patient you are
preparing to embark,
how perfectly reasonable you are,
and yet how your being calm
is always unexpected to me.
By mid-lake we become remote,
we see noone,
we are as detached as a Tolstoy’s novel
or the Hermitage.
By the end of my dream,
I think we shall have to spend one autumn
in Siberia some day:
yards and yards of fresh snowflakes,
of snowlace,
of snowsilk,
and all seems to be washed and ironed
under the Siberian silver stars.
I see you from afar,
my silver star…
