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A pursuer he has become, To cranes, which transition, An eagle, who is all alone, chasing them! In a row, a lot of them stand, that is their position, He is saddened by their run, As the road that eagle followed, was won, They were wanderers, coming from nowhere, With celebration and calls without care, […]
Unorthodox ways of portraying nature and ecology in Vazha’s works
Nature in Literature has always been omnipresent, all-forgiving and divine, as well as on equal grounds with God: No matter what you do, you can’t fight its wrath, change its laws or the love it has for humanity. The phenomena of collective physical world and Literature is a common synthesis, but the disciplines belonging to […]
Futile War
Spade and raven could not give each other rest, On the eagle’s nest: From head to mouth, one devoured the other, On the stolen land of another, From beak to beak, To claws, breezing through, Both had the desire, Foreign land to acquire, Fools Think: The owner of this nest, Up, in the mountains, has […]
Where is the Christ, or his teachings?
What kind of existence am I in? What has fallen upon me? I have almost gone mad and became a beast, On human flesh, I feast, I drink human blood, like water, With millions of gallons not being enough per day, I am Worthy of being called humankind’s hunger, I despise myself, for living that […]
The son of nature
“ Every genius is nourished by his native land. Geniuses are those who can be received by other nations like their innate sons,” Writes famous Georgian poet, Vazha-Pshavela in his iconic essay, “Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism.” Little did he realize that he himself was the personification of all this: A genius, whose work accurately portrays the divinity […]
Wedding of the Giants
It was a roaring thunderstorm in the sky, during the night, The mountains were bowing their heads, Forest was abandoned by leaves for a flight, And sea was roaring, as well as black. It was a wedding of the beasts, you could hear the rumble, inside the great feast, I was invited as well, so […]