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[lotesse]

I know nothing about this poem, which I found through random googling, but I'm in love with it.

Invocation
Marya Alexandrovna Zaturensky

Make of my voice a blue-edged Sword, Oh, Lord!
Strengthen my soul to deliver your war-cry,
Make of my voice a blue-edged sword, Oh, Lord!

Out of my frailness fashion a piercing reed,
Out of my pity a great battle ax,
Out of my frailness fashion a piercing reed!

I have had a vision and I cannot sleep,
A vision consumes me and tears me apart,
I have had a vision and I cannot sleep.

Oh body of mine, make of yourself a stronghold,
Gird yourself in the steel of your vision,
Oh body of mine, make of yourself a stronghold!

Make of my breath an infinite prophecy, Oh, Lord!
Make of my song a summons to prayer,
Make of my breath an infinite prophecy, Oh, Lord!

A vision consumes me and I am its slave and its lover,
Make of my spirit a song so that I may announce it!
A vision consumes me and I am its slave and its lover.

Comments

[slashfairy]

i keep coming back to it, and now have copied it out to print and hang up, and am looking for more and for info about the poet. what a grand find.

[lotesse]

If you find anything about the poet, plz to be letting me know, because my google-fu has come up with nothing thus far - and if this one is so shiny, must there not be others?