Now, these are some of my songs. I mean I *am* a Merry Songster, right? Just click the title to reveal the text!
The texts are arranged roughly chronologically. The ones at the top are the oldest, therefore the most primitive... I've always felt I'm getting better. You can judge for yourself, though...
You can ask me why I call these songs, and not just texts. Well, they're all meant to be songs. The better half of them actually are songs, that is, thay have a tune to be sung to, composed either by myself or my friend Vlad (there's a link to his homepage in Links).
You may also ask me why I call them texts and not poems. Well, it's because
they're not poems, all right, not all of them. I mean they're just too simple, for the most part, to be considered poetry, and I never said I was a poet, mind you. I'm a song-text-writer. :-)
You can also ask me why the hell I write my songs in English instead of in my own mother-tongue. The fact is, it's much easier to do in English. To write poetry (or song texts) in Russian, you have to do it really well, and it's hard. You have to have a talent for that. I'm not saying you don't need talent to write poetry in English - heaven forbid! It's just that the English language allows more, well, freedom of a peculiar kind, when you can tumble words together and they do make a sort of sense. It's all because of the grammar, you see... in Russian, the words have to be connected much more explicitly, just because of the case system and things... and it takes a real master to handle all this and get something worthwhile in the end. In English, the connections between words are more, well, abstract, perhaps, and it makes things easier. Yes, and the words are shorter in English, so that you can have more of them in a line and, consequently, more images in a text! :-)
OK, enough of this poetic theory. Just read the texts... sorry they're linked so that you can only move forward, but I hope it's not too inconvenient. And then there's always the link to this page anyway - *if* you feel like re-reading anything here.
Flower In My Hand, Love In My Heart
You Like to Dance in the Night
