ALEXANDER BLOK

Shostakovich's song cycle
of Romances for Blok
creates in lyrical form
a great Russian poet
of the "Twelve"
creating a musical storm
in a silver age,
we remember Bely
a rival for his lover Lyuba
" The Beautiful Lady,
as lyrical verses glow
in "Fabrika" and "Faina"
and the "Mask of Snow,"
your poems resemble to me
a Russian musical ballet
enhanced by nature
in Pushkin's memory
fulfilled by Solovyov's
matured philosophy
as Akhmatova,
Nabokov,
BZ Niditch and others
will soon discover.