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Poetry and Paintings



This is a new project from Anastasia Volkhovskaya and Pavel Sizov and an attempt to unite two genres (poetry and painting).

The first theme that has inspired the artists tells a story of 12 different women.

Pressed against a sacred window, <br>bewildered, filled with mystery<br>I follow angles and curves flashing in linear light;<br>my desperate ballerina –<br>wringing her fingers and wrists –<br>weeping movements and jumps on pitiless parquet.<br>In her crucial dance<br>she reminds me of a bird –<br>caught, admired, tortured…<br>I wish I could break this sacred window<br>and take her away<br>from watering mirrors swallowing her youth…<br>But I am only a tin soldier – brave yet hopeless –<br>limping each day to look at my desperate ballerina<br>and love her as only the tin soldier can.<br>

Ballerina

Pressed against a sacred window,
bewildered, filled with mystery
I follow angles and curves flashing in linear light;
my desperate ballerina –
wringing her fingers and wrists –
weeping movements and jumps on pitiless parquet.
In her crucial dance
she reminds me of a bird –
caught, admired, tortured…
I wish I could break this sacred window
and take her away
from watering mirrors swallowing her youth…
But I am only a tin soldier – brave yet hopeless –
limping each day to look at my desperate ballerina
and love her as only the tin soldier can.

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