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Don’t turn your joy into a fog

Leonid Rozumenko 1961 (Kyiv)

The groom, before his marriage,
Has love for every dame.
But then the smell of barrage ¹
Left one without a game.

You shouldn’t be a cause
Turns joy into a fog,
So, treat your loving spouse
Like an impatient dog.

Don’t let him jump into a well
And share his searching side.
This means you feed him well
And walk him outside.

True love will never bother,
Yet there is one protection -
Don't look at one - another
But look in one direction.

¹Barrage – the smock of gunfire, cannonade
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Written on 2001

Submitted by leorozum on November 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XXXX BCBC DEDE C
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 480
Words 92
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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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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