NinaVol'ga

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NinaVol'ga
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I write poetry. My poems are my babies. I intend this page to be a safe place to keep all my babies together. Let all my prodigal sons and daughters return.

  March 2023     10 months ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

To Gala’s notebook

Whatever they say
We make our own choices,
Living our own way,
Living our lives through:
Irene, and me, and you.
Whatever they think,
We do establish a link
Between today and tomorrow.
And escaping from heartbreaking sorrows
We choose what...

– by Nina Vol'ga

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Weird night

After midnight. After the time
When there are no minutes to spare.
I am trying to – just like a mime –
To keep up with your forbearance
Of this world, all painted in black
And other not jolly colours.
I am feeling myself a wreck.
I am...

– by Nina Vol'ga

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No indefinite articles. Autumn.

It’s Autumn. Look, its time has come.
It’s time of illusions masking love traps.
It’s time of malicious personal scams.
Soon pumpkins from pies will become lamps.
But in the meantime, crazy gaiety hides
Behind the curtain of polite remarks.
...

– by Nina Vol'ga

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Present tenses and whims.

Just one more day is slipping by,
Filled with routine and daily chores.
Look, even though I have survived,
I have had hopes for something more.

Calendar pages are flipped by the wind.
And while the mirror image ages,
Complexion and smiles...

– by Nina Vol'ga

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COVID SUMMER

Darcey roses have hidden in some phloxes
As if a lord has come to Moulin Rouge.
Sickening odours from the neighbour’s compost boxes
That are rotting just behind my lilac bush.
It’s a COVID-poisoned hot and dreary summer,
Empty gardens sleep in...

– by Nina Vol'ga

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