wendy cope (англ.)
Jul. 1st, 2014 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avvaОткрыл для себя Венди Коуп, прекрасную совершенно. Вот четыре стихотворения, из особенно понравившихся (я пролистал первые два ее сборника, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986) и Serious Concerns (1992).
Flowers
Some men never think of it.
You did. You’d come along
And say you’d nearly brought me flowers
But something had gone wrong.
The shop was closed. Or you had doubts –
The sort that minds like ours
Dream up incessantly. You thought
I might not want your flowers.
It made me smile and hug you then.
Now I can only smile.
But, look, the flowers you nearly brought
Have lasted all this while.
Bloody Men
Bloody men are like bloody buses -
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.
You look at them flashing their indicators,
Offering you a ride.
You're trying to read the destination,
You haven't much time to decide.
If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze
While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.
I Worry
I worry about you –
So long since we spoke.
Love, are you downhearted,
Dispirited, broke?
I worry about you.
I can’t sleep at night.
Are you sad? Are you lonely?
Or are you all right?
They say that men suffer,
As badly, as long.
I worry, I worry,
In case
they are wrong.
Another Unfortunate Choice
I think I am in love with A. E. Housman,
Which puts me in a worse than usual fix.
No woman ever stood a chance with Housman
And he’s been dead since 1936.
Flowers
Some men never think of it.
You did. You’d come along
And say you’d nearly brought me flowers
But something had gone wrong.
The shop was closed. Or you had doubts –
The sort that minds like ours
Dream up incessantly. You thought
I might not want your flowers.
It made me smile and hug you then.
Now I can only smile.
But, look, the flowers you nearly brought
Have lasted all this while.
Bloody Men
Bloody men are like bloody buses -
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.
You look at them flashing their indicators,
Offering you a ride.
You're trying to read the destination,
You haven't much time to decide.
If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze
While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.
I Worry
I worry about you –
So long since we spoke.
Love, are you downhearted,
Dispirited, broke?
I worry about you.
I can’t sleep at night.
Are you sad? Are you lonely?
Or are you all right?
They say that men suffer,
As badly, as long.
I worry, I worry,
In case
they are wrong.
Another Unfortunate Choice
I think I am in love with A. E. Housman,
Which puts me in a worse than usual fix.
No woman ever stood a chance with Housman
And he’s been dead since 1936.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Венди Коуп. Цветы. Перевод Натальи Крофтс
Date: 2014-07-01 09:54 am (UTC)http://www.stihi.ru/2011/07/19/4939
no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 09:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 09:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 10:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 10:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 12:07 pm (UTC)То им и не
То им и не
То им и не увядать!
Неееее увядать.
no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 12:40 pm (UTC)Извинити.
no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 06:42 pm (UTC)а думать о стихах головой - можно?
no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 06:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:29 pm (UTC)отэто такой, с позволения сказать, парадокс, я так думаю.
no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:46 pm (UTC)я теперь не знаю - подумать или не надо.
я вот щас попытался подумать, и понял, шо у вас столько юзерпиков, шо у меня всё равно в голове мыслей не хватит
no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 02:45 pm (UTC)When they ask me (http://books.google.ca/books?id=FZhQdRGnll4C&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=%22and+i+like+your+poems+too%22+wendy+cope&source=bl&ots=w7f5rHW9r_&sig=YS1zfJRegWA2RT7xIURIspCev8I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=r8iyU_djzYfIBNGWgtAD&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22and%20i%20like%20your%20poems%20too%22%20wendy%20cope&f=false), "Who's your favourite poet?"
I'd better not mention you,
Though you certainly are my favourite poet
And I like your poems too.
no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 10:00 am (UTC)"кушать люблю, а так нет":- Эта шоколадка очень хорошая... очень вкусная, кроме того!
no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-01 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 09:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-02 08:50 pm (UTC)