Poem: Azure space is aflame up above...<br />Author: Segrey Yesenin<br />Read by Anatoly Suprunyuk<br /><br /><br />Lyrics:<br /><br />Azure space is aflame up above,<br />I"ve forgotten my home destination...<br />For the first time I"m singing of love,<br />For the first time I give up contention.<br /><br />I was all like a desolate garden,<br />I was greedy for women and potions.<br />Now, I don’t want to sing and to dance,<br />And to squander my life void of caution.<br /><br />If I only could look at your cast<br />And your eyes’ golden-hazel vortex,<br />So that, out of love with the past,<br />You were able to go to none else.<br /><br />Your light stature, your airy gait,<br />If you knew in your stubborn feeling<br />How a hooligan can venerate,<br />How a hooligan can be lenient.<br /><br />All those pubs I would never attend,<br />And my poems would all be forgotten,<br />If you let me take hold of your hand<br />And your hair, the colour of autumn.<br /> <br />I would follow you ever, my dove,<br />Be it distant or close destination...<br />For the first time I"m singing of love,<br />For the first time I give up contention.<br /><br /><br />Sergey Yesenin (1895 - 1925)<br /><br />Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (sometimes spelled as Esenin) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, known for "his lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation"
