Art is my love and universe And time from time black squares



My friend will never be confused
About goals, I chase.
I’d rather spend my cash on booze
Then in a doctor’s place.

Art is my love and universe
Gives birth sometimes like a mare,
When you expect immortal verse
And having a Black Square.

The innovator’s always wild, -
Don’t think he is a jerk.
And when the art sets free a child, -
It’s like Malevich’s work.

Yet a search of new dimensions
Works like the inner crisis, -
And you don’t answer questions,
Just shuffle prejudices.

And art has a puzzling drive.
The biggest task you face -
It’s not to find a place in life,
But how to have this place?

¹Malevich – Russian artist, author of the “Black Square” - a reflection of the emptiness and senseless of the Universe

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My friend will never be confused About goals, I chase. I’d rather spend my cash on booze Then in a doctor’s place. Art is my love and universe Gives birth sometimes like a mare, When you expect immortal verse And having a Black Square. The innovator’s always wild, - Don’t think he is a jerk. And when the art sets free a child, - It’s like Malevich’s work. Yet a search of new dimensions Works like the inner crisis, - And you don’t answer questions, Just shuffle prejudices. And art has a puzzling drive. The biggest task you face - It’s not to find a place in life, But how to have this place? 

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Written on 2001

Submitted by leorozum on November 05, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA BCBC DEDE FXFX XAXA B
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 724
Words 134
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1

Leonid Rozumenko

Someone in your domain asks me to send a letter about myself. My pleasure - favorite topic. Who am I? Can’t keep a secret - athletic, open-minded, and generous, with a wide scope, love for women, good company. With love for science and to write something everlasting, which isn’t computer programming anymore. I was born in gorgeous Kyiv (Ukraine) more than 35 years ago, lived in the USA for longer than 4 years and my language is still in progress. My poetry is also a colorful picture of the unseeing battle between “yours truly” and English grammar. My Ukrainian or Russian accent has two unreliable reasons – it’s “for fun” and “hard to get rid of”. The meaning of my last name “Rozumenko” in Ukrainian is very close to “jaba-jaba a dada” in “Crocodile Dundee II”. I have several other weaknesses but I introduce them only to my closest friends. Yours truly, Leo Rozumenko more…

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