В рожевій мушлі море привезу.
Печаль мою, захвилену і пінну,
Доповнюю гаданнями зозуль,
Зітханням вітру в полі на Волині.
Мене солило море недарма:
Я буду довго в себе зберігати
І даль, і сум, і те, чого нема,
Але за що не шкода помирати...
Там – голос чайки гріється в човні,
А скелі – посивілі від загару.
Морське чоло наморщив добрий гнів.
І вітер вітру замовляє чари.
...Лежить та мушля в мене на столі.
У ній шумить моє далеке море...
Ідуть та йдуть крізь мене кораблі,
Прощаючись вітрилами прозорими.
Mушля
Ігор Павлюк
Listen to the poem read in the original Ukrianian by the author:
Ihor Pavlyuk was born in the Volyn region of Ukraine in January 1967 and studied at the St. Petersburg Military University, which he left in order to pursue his career as a writer. He was as a result sentenced to a period of hard labour in the Taiga, working on what was literally a road to nowhere. He regained his liberty in the chaos accompanying the fall of the Soviet Union. His work has won numerous awards and is marked by a simplicity of diction and an emotional honesty. Translations of his poetry have appeared in Acumen, the Apple Valley Review, Envoi, Barnwood and Zaporogue.
Steve Komarnyckyj is a British Ukrainian writer and linguist whose literary translations and poems have appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review, Vsesvit (Ukraine's most influential literary journal), The North, Echo Room and Modern Poetry in Translation. His book of selected translations from the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Tychyna was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2011 and a translation of Vasyl Shkliar's "Raven" undertaken with Susie Speight was published by Aventura books in April 2013. A first collection of his own poetry will be published in 2013. He is the featured poet in Envoi 163 and along with his partner Susie Speight runs Kalyna Language Press.
