It is my young ladies birthday next week and I was wondering if anyone on here could recommend a romantic poem in Ukrainian? Your help would be much appreciated.
dannys a looser from adelaid ,
who lies so peeple think he's got it maid .
he thot it was funky as he played with his munkey ,
at least only noogie pays to get laid !
translated:
skip the authors name on the first line
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When I am half a breath from you,
When I am half a step from your lips —
Your pupils are weaved from wonder.
There is something blue and wide in your eyes.
You whisper something spellbound and quiet,
That blue whisper is cutting my soul.
And I am forgetting that I know how to breath,
And I am forgetting that I know how to walk.
The black bird of your eyelashes is taking off
And taking my confidence away to unknown place.
The half a step is being left unwalked.
The half a breath is getting stuck in throat.
Your pupils are weaved from wonder.
There is something blue and wide in your eyes.
But there's half a breath left from me to you,
There's half a step left to your lips
Thank you Julian. there were some good poems on that site. Thank you too Armin. I think it would be better in Ukrainian rather than Russian. Good luck to all you guys that are following their dream. Its a tough road to take, but the eventual rewards will be worth it!
The following are lyrics to Russian or Ukrainian songs I had translated.
It will get dark in your eyes
Just like a path of the autumn orchard( garden)
The feather will sway
Just like a flood of the mad river
Because of the sad farewell
Quiet and helpless tear
Will not warm up
By your warm and dear hand
We are not a strangers anymore
And there is not closer people than we are
I don’t believe in fairy tales
And in this sudden unexpected dream
In a sorrow of saying goodbye
Right now our next meeting is lightning up
And it flies and burns
Just like a comet an empty train station
No one will cry out this time
And our tears at a night time
And will not going to tell us
That rain in August and Snow in January
No one will cry out the time
When I am going to wait for you
And will tell about us
Not a sun and a moon in the skies
I’m just like your little toy
That makes your life so nice and easy
I dreamed that I didn’t belong to you
as though it wasn’t easy
I will go to the country of dreams
And will do whatever I want
The tender wind will whisper to me
That you are not the one for me
I don’t belong to you
I am not in a puppet play
I don’t belong to you
I know that I can’t yet
To tell you -No
Suddenly shadow went by
And I’m opening my eyes slowly
I don’t want to believe
That everything is going to be the way it was
Why are there games and laughs?
Again disrespect and again I think to myself
The higher it is- the farther is the sky
The higher it is- the worse is the sin
Yellow sad leafs are falling from the trees
And north winds are blowing cold air
But I do remember those hot summer nights
That doesn't let me sleep at night
Magic night and warm waves
Were whispering nicely to us
Their strange fairy tails
Of far away land
Sleepy sea breath
of sudden love
and on scheduled time
Sea will call us again
Winter will not cover
with snow my sweet dreams
In my heart I will find a warm place
for them During winter days
I will put them like bids on a string
And walk with you once more to the sea
russ-key, good luck to you. glad I could help steer you to a good place for help. as for raging bull, he does not understand the concept of being there. bless him for trying. just as every village has their idiot, we have raging-bull. and for some unexplainable reason he has become my foil. of course now this will not fade into the archives.
Happy Birthday to your lady, Russ key. As I look at this thread, there are two poems other than mine. One of them is for Danny. There is that link, but months or years from now, that site might not work. I hope you got your poem. If I start another thread, there will probably be little response, like you did. I thought it be better if I posted them here.
I sing to my lady now and then. She, in turn sings to me. She sings me American songs and those are the songs I sing to her. Often times off key, we both sing a duet together on the phone, sometimes. She sang me a couple of Russian songs, but I could not understand them. She sang this one. The tune sounded familiar.
It took me a while, but I placed it as the song that was sung at the wedding before Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken and John Savage went to war in the "Deer Hunter". They were in a neighborhood in Philadelphia. That would mean they were from a minority who originally came from the FSU. Which country, I don't know. As interesting as the movie was, it became more interesting that they went to fight the communists and was from a minority neighborhood originally from the FSU, if my conclusions are correct.
This song is loved in the FSU, apparEntly. Katyusha was named for a Soviet rocket launcher in WWII. These days, hotels and cities are named after that song.
KATYUSHA
Translation by katya
Apples and pears were blossoming
Mist on the river floating
On the bank Katyusha stepped out
On the high steep bank
Stepped out, started a song
About one grey steppe eagle
About her loved one
Whose letters she cherished
Oh song, maiden's song
Fly towards the clear sun
And to the warrior on a far away border
Bring Katyusha's greeting
May he remember this simple maiden
And hear her singing
May he save our motherland
And love, Katyusha will save
KATYUSHA
Translation by katya
Apples and pears were blossoming
Mist on the river floating
On the bank Katyusha stepped out
On the high steep bank
Stepped out, started a song
About one grey steppe eagle
About her loved one
Whose letters she cherished
Oh song, maiden's song
Fly towards the clear sun
And to the warrior on a far away border
Bring Katyusha's greeting
May he remember this simple maiden
And hear her singing
May he save our motherland
And love, Katyusha will save
My computer caught a virus or I would have posted the other songs that Alla sang. Now, I will not because it enfuriates someone. I only have three others that are translated anyway. I think the one below is acceptable.
The three songs above and the one below were the songs of Alla Zaginayko, the woman I visited
on my first trip to Ukraine. I saw the write up on her on the 2005 Ukrainian Showbiz magazine. It was in English, as well as cyrillic. She hosted a TV show in 2005 in Dnepropetrovsk, that lasted a year or less. She is a very good singer and had many hits. She also had minor roles in movies. The poems I posted are from the CD that she gave me.
She was not a scammer. She never asked for money, although I stayed in her apartment instead of paying for a hotel. Partly because of that, I still was not schooled in scamming on my next trip. She did have another guy. I called an interpreter one time and it was the same another guy was using with her. I thought this was normal and I would beat the guy to Ukraine and I did.
She cooked for me and made sure I was well fed. That was not true with my previous wife. I remember drinking and dancing in the evening with her in her apartment. She loved music. Other than meals and the Kiev Wax Museum, we went to a concert and two ballets. She taught me manners all over again. I had been married to a woman who gave me a hard time in everything. Because of that, I was not about to open doors for her, etc. Alla hit me on the head one time when I didn't help her off the bus. She gave me a good talking to about manners.
I spent a week with her. She held my hand when we were out and took pictures with me the first few days. I don't know what made her change, but that was no longer true on our last days. I had another two days in Ukraine, and I felt our relationship was not going any further. She usually went to bed at midnight. I wanted to talk to her about our relationship. It was only ten. She insisted on going to bed. I decided to leave her that night.
It hit me like a brick wall that I had fallen for her when I got to the hotel. I had fallen in love at high school my subsequent two marriages was not of love. (But they were real marriages and I did try to make them work.) Forgetting her was going to be near impossible. But, it was too late. I tried calling her many times, and she hung up on me each time. I even had the woman in Zaporozhye that I was corresponding with call her. She hung up on her too. I wrote to her thru the agency and she replied that she was very offended.
Realistically, I did the right thing. The bell hop at the hotel I went to introduced me to a nice young lady and we had two nice dates. I was then determined to find someone else. There are thousands of women in many websites. I surely can find one. I had spent five years alone before that, after my divorce. My being alone will not continue.
Can swans be without each other
Spring be without a blossom
and I without you
can it be that love without a song
the only happiness I have
without you -the skies are not for me
without you - sun doesn’t belong to me
without you the blossoming will die
without you the sorrow will fulfill my mind
I remember your soft hands
Your eyes so deep and stunning
and I do swear that while I will live
my dear you will be always in my songs
( or my dear you will be always on my mind)
This next poem is not Ukrainian at all. It is for Natasha who is now in Italy. It was going to be a post, but I think it should be a poem. It has been on my head. I am writing it for the first time here.
When does love begin?
That is a hard question.
Perhaps we should first ask
When love ends.
If it is really love,
Love will not end.
Now it is easier to answer
When love begins.
There once was a slapper from Zap
Once into the bed could she 'rap'!
Big tits and thin legs, a typical slag
And now married to some jerk in H. Hempstead