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195 · Dec 2024
War Poem (Vojna Poema)
Prendella Avant Dec 2024
I stay with the beast
Until the morn comes
When the great sun will
Lay bare his carcass
Torn by vultures
Eyes beady, glass beads in a kaleidoscope

I see its fangs
How sharp your teeth are, mister!
All the better, all the better…

Through its gaping neck
And the bullet hole in my head
I am granted a fleeting vista
Of light – its majestic stride
Wrought in dark steel

Alexander Nevsky grins
From its bottomless maw
Fire! Danger! Season!
We were destined, destined,
Destined…for,
For – greatness!
Title taken from Laibach's Vojna Poema.
170 · Dec 2024
Red Silence
Prendella Avant Dec 2024
We ran
From something
Unseen. We were
Two, a man and a woman

River flowed red
He is steel. And her tears
Bullets. We are
Bayonets and gun barrels

The earth flourished
With steel, straight statues
Of trees and undergrowth
A perennial memorial

Buried, we were
Under the earth
Meant to last forever
Meant to simply be

Red silence
Enveloped the world
My brothers...
Glided between the trees

Creatures joined
Those of all kinds, prowl
Across the land
Around their brothers

The earth split
We are the valleys. Gashes
Along the veins of the earth
Runs red like streams and fountains

Wounds dried and flaking
Freely beasts roamed
Lands demarcated
Trampled, trodden

We are echoes
Within the canyons. We stalk
Like spirits, like steel
Behind fervor, behind craze

They lost
Time was forgotten
Time was reclaimed
Remade

We do not know time
We do not sow
We do not reap
We do not see
We do not hear

The world is never silent
But the underground is

How would you feel
If you knew that
The world was hollow
Held up by rifles...
I am the original author of Red Silence. GuessWho2436 posted my poem with my permission.
Prendella Avant Nov 2024
Torture your body with a heart-wrenching knife
Torture your body with a heart-wrenching knife
Clamp your liberal fingers till they bleed
Indulgently licking lollipops

Stuffing pockets deliberately
Full of dead rodents and live *****
Chocolates, holy substance
Descend upon the mortal land

In the patriarchal landfill of obsolete concepts
Used figures and polite words
Annihilation through suicide -
Annihilation through suicide!

Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Setting gloriously, on, on, on -

Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments

Perverse geography
Spelling of hatred
Apology for ineptitude
Legend of optimism

Code of honor for righteous Howitzers
Noble feast of utter prudence
"Abyss" from a baby's mouth
"Bullet" from a baby's mouth

Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Setting gloriously, on, on, on -

Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Fields of Experiment

Like man - meaningless art
A noose - revered art
Roasted apples - global art
A timely departure - an art

And the art of being a bystander
And the art of being a bystander

A new way to clean your oven
For those who suffocated in free will
A new way to scrub your noose
For the funny smell on their neck

The latest way to find the culprit
The latest way to find the culprit

Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments

Oblivion - behind the open door
Means someone's coming for you
Means you're important to someone
Important, still

It snows, and snows
Snow flutters upon Russian expanses
Men buried with eyes sealed
Men buried with newspapers wrapped

And yet, it comes to the calf slaughtered
Became everyone's joy and everyone's pride
Everyone's hatred, everyone's will
Everyone's will, and everyone's last days

Bury your body in your grave
Truth behind inheritance of land
What do we mean by inheritance?
Means our patience is running out!

As will be shown, through a pervert's opening -
The keyhole - unrivalled genius
Started the Second World War
Earth's unofficial belly-button
Porcelain inside the mental system

Volunteers out of instinct
In the name of the cosmos and bread crumbs
With the People, capitalized -
The word "People", capitalized!

Swastikas fly, faces stiff
Words of Babylon, never fade
A means once legitimate is
Now annexing our lands

Isn't this exactly what we need?
Isn't this exactly what we need?
Isn't this exactly what we need?

Unavoidably, children wake up
Disease-less, filth-less
Corresponding objects with their true names
Sowing seeds of good, reason, and eternity

Everything seeded, everything named
Food served in a mannered fashion
The first - fruits of knowledge
The second - a boy dripping blood

Lord of Law and Order, victorious
Lord Paramount of Terror in red
Legal holidays for legal citizens
Honed scythe for precocious ears

The Abyss - according to the principle
Of movement towards the Sun
Do not shed tears above your porridge, no


...


Then who had their lives taken in the last battle?
And who died for the slip of a genius?
And who poured their glass full of pity
For that savage battle in Stalingrad?

Planes crash, grinning
Into hills of the Promised Land
Into hills of the Promised Land

And of my love - free her I will
From the inevitable pain
****** her with ginger cakes
**** her with a drunken boot
String her upon the clouds
A child - an unloved doll!

Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Pitying laughter, cold as frost
Setting gloriously, on, on, on -

Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments
Russian Field of Experiments

With the scent of oil -
Eternally
An incomplete translation of Igor Federovich Letov's Русское поле экспериментов.

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