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MARINA’S SONG
 

What have we lost -
You hardly know,
Dancing at Oz
Is like a star nova.
The rhythm of cosmic love
Unites us and peels
Beneath and above

For me to feel real.
As I whirl in sync with you
And our common universe,
Let us keep the dancing torch

At the very tip of notch!

 

-         Anya

“THE CENTER OF WILL”
      
 

LANCE

In the land of the free
We are slaves of shopping spree
It’s more fun to sweat in gear
Than to dance by neighbour’s rear.

-    Anya  “THE CENTER OF WILL”

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Maison Carree, Nimes

МАРИНА

 

Раскрасила цветные сны собой Марина,

Расправила крыло любви Тобой царинна,

Разбредила раба мечты земной Марию*,

Раскинула шатры судьбы святой России.

 

Испила и беды засилье сеньорина,

Растила, распила, разлила мёд полыни,

Развеяла по свету стон души рабыни,

Завесила бельём свою тропу поныне.

 

Но вспыхнула звезда далёка на чужбине,

Приснился сон о деве той другой Марине,

Раскроила судьба звезду наполовину,

Раскинула крыла на обе половины.

 

* Рильке

 -  Аня 6 февраля 2004 12.00 День взрыва в московском метро между Павелецкой и Автозаводской

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Ancient Roman arena in Arles

 

Солдат слепой Вселенной

Растет в пустых домах,

Где сердце не знает сомнений,

Где воле не светит тюрьма

Его раздвоений...

 

- Аня. "ЦЕНТР ВОЛИ"

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LANCE’S SONG


Universal servant
Grows in the lab.
His heart has no doubt,

His will has not been doubled
B
y what he lacks and straddles...

 

Children playing rough,

Laughing in my yard,

Dreaming they are tough,

Pinning bodyart.

 

I’m a happy seedling
Wearing waspy shoes,
You may have an inkling,
You won’t know the truth

That somewhere underground
There’s a bigger playground,
No loud sound
Penetrates the ground

 

Until the testing ground
Becomes the air surround
And many more hounds
Will grow in the pounds..

 

-         Anya

“THE CENTER OF WILL”

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Maison Carree, Nimes

THEME SONG

 

Take my key
Open the cage of your heart
Open the cage of your will
Open the will of your heart
The will of your heart
The cry of your heart
The courage of your heart
The center of your will

 

 -     Anya

“THE CENTER OF WILL”

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Возьми мой ключ,
Открой клетку своего сердца
Открой клетку своей воли
Открой волю своего сердца
Волю своего сердца
Крик своего сердца
Смелость своего сердца
Центр своей воли

      - Аня

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James at the Pont Du Gard, Roman Akveduct

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Flying Amphibia

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Grenoble, French Silicon Valley, is uniquely surrounded by the mountains like Innsbruck

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Grenoble Isere river bank

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Dreaming on the road... 
After seeing Ancient Roman Maison Caree in Nimes, we found a room at an old small hotel Royal very close to the site. It was late when we got in and I immedialely went to bed and falling asleep, I saw the big mirror in front of me shifting its shape from vertical into horizontal, and felt drawn into it... I dreamt I was applying for an archeology school in Northen California.  I was taking take test classes and writing a test paper, and other students rallied for me to be admitted even though I had to commute there from Los Angeles. The most striking thing I remember was that unlike other students and professor, all dressed in black and grey suits, I was wearing a beautiful dress of an electric bright blue color. When I woke up in the morning, I noticed for the first time the unusual electric bright blue color of my blanket...

Room with the mirror at the Hotel Royal
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in Nimes where I had the dream

blue lullaby

 

In the blue silky room

Dreams walk unnoticed

Days morph into nights

Nights melt into days

 

Tell me a story

Sing me of fortune

Take me to land

Of blue silky haze          

 

Make we wonder...

Sing me the story

Of blue silky lizards

Guarding the lock

 

The key to the future

Of wandering souls

Waiting for morning

To enter the clock.
 
    -  Anya

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Синие слезы,
синяя чума,
воруя грезы,
вползает в дома...
 
- Аня. "ЦЕНТР ВОЛИ"

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Maison Carree Roman Temple in Nimes

LANCE’S SONGS


Before the dawn they creep
Into our dreams,
Our eyelids are heavy,
The wills are asleep,
The bodies listless...
What if it’s nothing
But a dream,
And my angst
Is just a mind enlisted.

Yellow Jacket
Snakes into our dreams
Rapes our minds,
Breaks us down,
People shedding
Blue tears,
Blue plague
Crawls into town.
 

-         Anya

“THE CENTER OF WILL”

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Maison Carree, Nimes

LANCE'S SONG

 

No passion, no time /

Страсти нет, нет времени

Window's closed on your mind /

Окно закрыто от бремени

No fear, no love /

Того, что открыто лишь кременю,

You are ever super tough /
Что шагает в ногу со временем.
 
  -  Anya  
"THE CENTER OF WILL"

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Let me be to you
What you are to me
Let me be the sky to you
Like you are the heaven to me...
Let me be the star to you
Like you are the light to me...
Let me be the torch to you
Like you are the fire to me...
Let me be the hearth to you
Like you are the home to me.
 
       - Anya
"THE CENTER OF WILL"

Pont Du Gard
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THE HEART IS A SLEEPING BEAUTY


The heart is the sleeping beauty,

And love the only kiss it can't resist.
Even as eyes lay open wide,
there is a heart that sleeps inside,
and it is there you must be hastening,
for all hearts dream,
They dream only of awakening.


- Nicholas Klein,
”THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL”
(2001, directed by Wim Wenders,
story idea & soundtrack by Bono/U2)

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By the surrounding wall of Aigues-Mortes, a medieval castle town

 

Сердце - Спящая Красавица,
И любовь - единственный поцелуй,
которому она не может противиться.
И хотя глаза широко раскрыты,
Спит внутри сердце,
Туда и направь свои стопы,
Ибо все сердца спят и видят сны,
И снится им одно - что они просыпаются.

    -   Николас Клайн  (transl. by Anya)

 

ТЕЛЬ МИЛЛИОН ДОЛЛАРОВ"

(2001 режиссер Вим Вендерс,

идея, соундтрек, продюссер - Боно / U2)

Our host in Grenoble was my dear American family.
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Inspired once by my example, Dan and Jennie Cooper moved to France to become world citizens.

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At the Grenoble train station with Jennie and Dan

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Hotel Royal, Nimes

Мore of my poems and personal geography in the U.S. and Russia:

http://home.earthlink.net/~anyasjournal (POETRY)