On The Hunt
On the hunt
Пётр Дубинин
Due to binoculars, while sailing on Amur,
I found on the bank of this grand river stone giant, *
And asked him to send a bit of luck in our tour.
He answered us OK — the luck he grant!
At last, this day my friend and I went hunting,
Three ducks I killed on so called Shaman-skewer,
We marked an opening the hunt, before a sleeping,
By dawn I seen a dream, lying on the grass bedewed.
As if few dozens horses pull a formidable wagon, **
Instead of big BUDWEISER barrel, as was standing,
I've seen in former days, which long ago has gone,
There's iron cage with someone, and a crowd staring!
Ventura County Fair is always crowded,
Rodeo, horse racing — what's not here,
Either attraction one can found there,
Yet wagon is the highlight, so hardly can be reached.
But I break through and see (pity in a dream) wretch one,
Which already for more than twenty years,
Calluses to us eyes, pushes lie in our ears,
So that a half of the hearing ability is gone!
A plaque on his chest is fasten:
THE LAST USURPER
OF STATE POWER!
And as appendix behind wagon on a rope minces,
Old hag, a lock of gray hair on her head beams...
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In this point by a snoring of my crony I woke up,
And I too woke him, forcing to stand up,
Each from a kettle washed his face,
At dawn hurried to get his hunting place...
* From the distance about 10 ml., read:
http://stihi.ru/2020/11/26/9677
** Thoroughbred dray horses black suit, each more than two meters
at the withers, with blinkers on their eyes, they are pulling a cart,
with two meters, in diameter, wheels. A big barrel of BUDWEISER on it.
This cavalcade, forty meters long, leaves behind, big piles of a shit,
which are quickly cleaned up.
I saw it in California in August 1990, at the Ventura County Fair.
9. II. 2022.
About this poem
It's a short poem, actually a verse, pretty acid, concerned us russian: https://stihi.ru/2022/02/11/6308
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Written on September 02, 2022
Submitted by peteduba on February 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A BABX CBCA DCEC XBBX DFFE DBBXX GGHH XB XXIIGB |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,931 |
Words | 389 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 2, 6 |
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