Marina Tsvetaeva’s Rowan Berry Poem, Translated from Russian

Rowan Berry Poem - Marina Tsvetaeva - Russian to English translation

I promised Facebook I would, and so it is done! Presenting a Russian-to-English translation of this brief but beautiful poem by famed Silver Age poet Marina Tsvetaeva: You can listen to a nice reading of it here. I loved this poem as soon as I saw the word рябина (ryabina) — rowan. Besides the Siberian birch, which … Read more…