Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"No, I'll not take the half..."

No, I'll not take the half of anything!
Give me the whole sky! The far-flung earth!
Seas and rivers and mountain avalanches--
All these are mine! I'll accept no less!

No, life, you cannot woo me with a part.
Let it be all or nothing! I can shoulder that!
I don't want happiness by halves,
Nor is half of sorrow what I want.

Yet there's a pillow I would share,
Where gently pressed against a cheek,
Like a helpless star, a falling star,
A ring glimmers on a finger of your hand.
1963

hey, summer

today is officially the first day of summer.

i love summer.

ergo, i love today.

YES

happy st patrick's day

Here comes the cold
Break out the winter clothes
And find a love to call your own
You - enter you
Your cheeks a shade of pink
And the rest of you in powder blue

Who knows what will be
But I'll make you this guarantee

No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time

In the dark, on the phone
You tell me the names of your brothers
And your favorite colors
I'm learning you
And when it snows again
We'll take a walk outside
And search the sky
Like children do

No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
And come January we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?

And we'll both be safe 'til St. Patrrick's Day

We should take a ride tonight around the town
and look around at all the beautiful houses
something in the way that blue lights on a black night
can make you feel more
everybody, it seems to me, just wants to be
just like you and me

No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
Come January we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?

And if our always is all that we gave
And we someday take that away
I'll be alright if it was just 'til St. Patrick's Day

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so have you found your pot of gold yet? i found my four leaf clover necklace. what a coincidence. i know now what all that was for. and today's just stark happy. yeah leaf green's a pretty color. nobody really gets lucky today except that guy who'll drive 2000 miles to kiss his love on. today. yeah. at this time theyre probably together. little stories like that make me happy. haha!

a little more and summer will be here. :D

for now i'll focus.

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something was said about reality a while ago. sugarcandyextremeyummyextrallydelicious!

naisip ko bigla! matagal na pala kong gumive up. win win situation to! haha!

thanks pa rin, God

your will be done

pink stones from heaven and some airports

today was a really good day. it was eventful, so to speak.

we had our class thing and yes, i will change for the better. and i say that all the time. i hope things work though. i did achieve the things i achieved on christmas break. maybe summer will somewhat be like that. avoiding things which i dont want to affect me. but summer's always unpredictable. last time i had all these plans written down and i ended up having the exact opposite

this summer will be dedicated to my college future.

okay so the requests we had got my head spinning. and paranoid too. i'll try. and then we had the surprise for tita. it felt so good to have family when youre all trying to be happy. i realized i didnt have any smart casual skirts in my closet. and ate ming had this delusional thing in her closet. it was pink. and i had to wear it. man. it felt strange. yeah my cousins who saw my hair started calling me kuya hannah too. and the sunday fight got settled with the way you look tonight. so yeah you cant really have everything right?

and tonight was just weird in the most transparent way. haha. you know who you are and i hardly think you read this. but just in case, just so you know, i didnt leave to avoid what you were asking me and you know that my pride gets in the way of things and tonight i swallowed it and told you what you wanted (wanted?) to hear. and everything i said was genuine. you dont know me lately because like you ive been doing some thinking. so for the record, yes to your first question, yes to your last. there. im not saying i want this..i mean the things i feel or whatever. but i'm telling the truth this time. everything about you seems to be one big sayang. from the prom to the before and after that from last summer to the upcoming one maybe. it never begins, you know? in the end all we do is talk and for a time i needed that. now im learning to keep things in my head or in a scrap of paper and im afraid of.. yeah. we are different and maybe it suddenly mattered to you when it stopped mattering to me.

which is sad. but life goes on. so must we.

the last post was so. haha! anyway im happy now. we discussed the little prince in lit a while ago. i couldn't recite because. well yeah! haha

anywho summer's nearing and like every year i cant wait. you dont really realize the beauty of summer until after. when you're in it it's like..i dont know. it's like diving in the pool and not knowing that you're getting dark. and then after you realize you have tan lines. yup thats my metaphor for summer. :D and it wont hurt that you have an excuse to wear pambahay everywhere. ;p plus sand is like magic dust. hahaha too much daydreaming

anyway its grammar time right now. im too lazy to search for cool sandwiches. who wants peanut butter and banana anyway? IT ISNT RIGHT!

anywho we had a picnic a while ago when we got in the counters the table VANISHED just like that! haha

we're all so bangs today. three longtests is never a good thing well 2 longtests and one exam anyway. i drank too much coffee and i cant stop typing hahaha weeee the guy in the computer thingo is ultra funni yeah with an i.

yammy!! hahahahahaha

:D

when i look at the stars i dont hear laughter, i hear the waves eh im not the pilot. haha.

dreams

i dreamt of endless pools tonight. there was a huge huge swimming pool and then there was the kids' playground with the pool of colorful balls. i don't know what that means. maybe i'm drowning. both were super deep. i even had to dive 6 feet under to get a coin. and i stayed under. when i was reaching the surface i woke up. lucid dreams. i dream a lot lately. the other day it was my box of colored pencils and i dreamt that the colors were all rearranged which is kinda like a nightmare to some extent.

this morning was awful. i hate the way you only talk to me when you need me to sing. you never even try to get to know me. and all the time all you do is criticize me, how i never speak or how i ruin everything. if that's the case, i'm sorry. i am a mistake, aren't i? thats all i am to you, to everyone, whatever. i'm a glitch to begin with. eversince i was conceived. i'm never going to be the person who will make you happy, or anyone i guess. don't worry, just a little more patience is all it takes. you just have to wait five more years or even less and i'll be out of here. sometimes people build walls around them to see who's brave enough to tear them down. apparently, you aren't :(

you don't really have to read this. id be happier if you dont. or will i? haha. i remember what people say everytime i confide my sadness. the last time, he said that he was a depressed boy and that i was the only person who drives him to go on living so i shouldn't tell him that im sad because it pisses him off. thats so selfish. so yeah i guess im meant to be a sponge, the person who takes in everyone's sadness and i have no right to spit out mine. haha! the people who you think will be there for you aren't. thats what im learning lately. i wonder what this means. ever eversince independence has been my life's lesson or something. maybe something big's gonna happen? i just want to melt here. go in the middle of a field at night and drop dead.

the last thing i'll see before i die are stars.

then i wont get buried or cremated, i'll just rot there. it'll be the happiest death! in the journey to my next life as a leaf.

i still believe that the world should be fair and that love still makes the world go round. if it didn't there wouldn't be so much secrets in postsecret talking about love and the un-presence of it.

this morning i prayed hard. it's sad how i always ask God for all these things and i don't know. i've been quite distant and i want to change that. i'm sorry i'm like this




and i don't know you (yet or anymore. you decide)

my mom was just here and i couldnt stand it anymore i broke down for the first time this year and i confess it feels better to some extent again

am i living it right?

i hope things get better

Lord, please

summer stars

ngayon na as in NOW yun na yun yreason and regret i will not forget yeswe had them all to ourselves. haha. as if.

i should really focus.. it's 1 30 am and i havent finished my homework this is sad my friends. my friends?? who reads this anyway? haha i think i am about to suffer an utmost sad death

i cant wait for summer. just the word summer exites me. haha isnt't it nice? you can say it over and over again. summer summer summer and it tastes different each time

i watched one tree hill today

6 billion souls

but sometimes we only need one

haha!

its so one tree hill

and i love it

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genevieve told me im blooming and she said why and i realized its because i lack a love life and i'm actually happy which is nice.. and lonely when i watched oth and oc haha! but its okay

maybe

i have to go

so much ahead

SUMMER.


oh my gulay. this is the day. OH MY. this is it. i'm over. i can tell that..