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Translation Trashbin - 50. дружба

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Translation of

Дружба (Druzhba)

by Vadim Kozin

 

 

дружба

 

Когда простым и тёплым взором

Ласкаешь ты меня, мой друг,

Необычайным цветным узором

Земля и небо вспыхивают вдруг.

 

Веселья час и боль разлуки

Хочу делить с тобой всегда.

Давай пожмём друг другу руки –

И в дальний путь, на долгие года.

 

Мы так близки, что слов не нужно,

Чтоб повторять друг другу вновь,

Что наша нежность и наша дружба

Сильнее страсти, больше, чем любовь!

 

Веселья час и боль разлуки

Хочу делить с тобой всегда.

Давай пожмём друг другу руки –

И в дальний путь, на долгие года.

 

Ну что, пожмём друг другу руки –

И в дальний путь, на долгие года. [i]

 

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Partnership

 

When you deem to caress me, my friend,

With your warm and un-shadowed gaze,

Heaven and earth suddenly burst in the flames

Of extraordinary patterns of color.

 

I ever want to share the good times

And separation’s pain with you.

So let us decide to clasp hands as men –

And start on our journey of many years to come.

 

We’re so close that no words need utter

Repeated reassurances,

For our tenderness and partnership

Outweigh passions; outweigh sentiments!

 

I desire to share with you always

Good times and separation’s pain.

So let us decide to clasp hands as men –

And start on our journey of many years to come.

 

Join me, and decide to clasp hands as men –

To start on this journey of many years to come.

 

 

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Vadim Kozin as a teenager

 

 

 


[i] “дружба” [Druzhba – Partnership] Vadim Kozin, music and lyrics, and first released on record in 1937

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5q933nwuyM

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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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40 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

This is a beautiful poem and song. One wonders if it (or it’s author) would long survive in today’s Russia

From what I have read, this is still a very famous song in Russia. Many know exactly what the lyrics mean (like the Russian LGBTI2S+ Community), but others choose not to "think" about the song's implications. That passive form of homophobia seems the same the world over 

 

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19 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

Amazing how many persons can ignore simple words.

Beautiful.

Thank you, ReaderPaul. It struck me today that "patterns of color" seems to be a rainbow reference, and how wonderful is that! 

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