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Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003)
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  • Memories (1997)
  • Memories (2001)
  • Poems
    • To a Budding Genius
    • Talents and Scoundrels
    • The Dream the Elephant Had
    • Bel Canto and the Frying Pan
    • Talent and envy
    • On the Perils of Letter-Worship
    • The Queen Crow
    • An Epochal Era
    • On a Gentle Pink Morning
    • I love you no more.
    • Ah, I Would Give!
    • Domestic Matters
    • Love Comes in Many Forms
    • New Year’s, Festive
    • To the Student and Friend Viktor Khilkov
    • At Seventy
    • To Dmitry Kremin
    • To Alexander Vycherov
    • Happy Holiday to You, Inna Konstantinovna
    • To Y.A. Makushin, Sculptor
    • To A.P. Zavgorodniy, on His 70th Birthday
    • To Anatoly Malyarov
    • Ballad of the Unknown Soldier
    • Lead March
    • For Those Who Are With Us
Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003) Mikhail Ryasnyansky (1926-2003)

Love Comes in Many Forms

Love comes in many forms, they say:
Happy, unhappy, in night or day,
Timid, terrifying, fleeting, eternal,
A volcano, short-lived, yet infernal.

Deep, careless, each heart its own,
A path to tread, a seed to be sown.
Yet, sometimes, wiser it seems to me,
To live a life unbound, love-free.

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