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Alexander Delfinov (Smirnov)

@poet-delfinov.bsky.social

Poet from another planet. English is not my native language.

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This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

03.05.2025 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

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03.05.2025 18:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

This part of me That's responsible for poetry Has completely switched off My head Like post-eruption volcano Soon the skull-walls Will collapse inward Just like the walls of an empty crater Forming a caldera This is me writing about Me writing about Me writing about Me writing about How completely empty is This part of me “What do you have there, a guitar?” “We host Musical and poetry events here" Who's asking? "Do you have books in English?" "We do have books in English” Who's asking? The noise of the coffee machine Noises of voices Street noises That's the author's body Located in the cafe "Literature" Olga Tokarczuk presented her book here Florbela Eshpanka's book presents itself here There's a shopper bag for sale here With portraits of great writers Shakespeare Pessoa George Sand Like sand Crumbles away This part of me That's responsible for poetry

#poetdelfinov

03.05.2025 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Revolution Should not Be political But poetical

Revolution Should not Be political But poetical

Honest poetics Instead of rotten politics Human poetics Instead of military policy The poetics of health care Instead of the politics of annihilation The poetics of labor Instead of the politics of fuck-up

Honest poetics Instead of rotten politics Human poetics Instead of military policy The poetics of health care Instead of the politics of annihilation The poetics of labor Instead of the politics of fuck-up

Poetics of ethics Instead of police politics Yes, we just need Dada poetics Instead of blahblah politics

Poetics of ethics Instead of police politics Yes, we just need Dada poetics Instead of blahblah politics

Olive blossoms In my head The stars are streaming In my hands You sit down next to me And smile like a living moon It's the only real Poetic reality

Olive blossoms In my head The stars are streaming In my hands You sit down next to me And smile like a living moon It's the only real Poetic reality

April 25 is the day of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. And I have a feeling that our world today needs a major change. The poem for my friend portugal poet Nuno Piteira
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25.04.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

****
I’m trying to be open
because
this is my way
or
my method of struggle
with this sadness
or depression
or
I don’t know
it’s like I feel the world
has a crack
and a blinding light
shines from there

16.12.2024 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So No

12.12.2024 17:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Art Against Oppression: Solidarity with Georgia Over 500 artists from around the globe—including filmmakers, theater practitioners, musicians, writers, academics, performers, and cultural workers across diverse fields—have signed a solidarity state...

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Among others more than 500 artists from different countries I signed the letter to support freedom and democracy in Georgia against the brutal oppression with russian infiltration. To sighn:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

08.12.2024 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At last

My legs were cut off
And sewn on instead of arms
My arms were cut off
And sewn in place of my legs
At last
You will walk normally, they told me
You will write normally
At last

08.12.2024 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here I am watching the birds
I'm watching the birds
Watching the birds
Birds

And there they are, not only one
Here the bird there the bird
Bird bird bird bird bird bird
Bird bird bird bird bird bird
Bird bird bird bird bird bird
Bird
Well, well, it's creepy, but
The birds are watching me

You see

06.12.2024 11:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dark ball dark balI
Comes like a train
Arrives like a plane
Dark ball dark ball
Growls like a beast
Grows in my chest
Dark ball dark balI
– You don't mind?
– Not at all

05.12.2024 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My language

03.12.2024 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
100 Disbelief Russian Anti-War Poems edited by Julia Nemirovskaya

100 Disbelief Russian Anti-War Poems edited by Julia Nemirovskaya

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Small poems I posted here are created specially for this. I hope to find somebody who will be interested to communicate. But some of my long poetry texts were published earlier in real analog books. You could find this anthology of 100 Russian Anti-War Poems published in 2022: ISBN 97811739772277
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30.11.2024 12:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The winter is coming
Like a bus
To take all of us
Without stops and tickets control
We will end in a her fairy hut
In the woods
Not everyone will survive this
Not everyone will escape
From the white forest
By the way, did you throw
Pebbles out of the window?
While we were being taken away
On the way

29.11.2024 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ordered on amazon. Tagged: only one left in stock 🦋

27.11.2024 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is very interesting!

27.11.2024 10:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Poetry performance at 15th anniversary of PANDA platforma in Berlin, October 2024 PANDA platforma is open to all cultural workers and is ready to cooperate with people who share our values. We condemn all forms of xenophobia, including antisemitism and islamophobia. Our platform is not available for people justifying terror attacks of any kind or those who vindicate Russian military aggression in Ukraine. https://panda-platforma.berlin

Poetry performance at 15th anniversary of PANDA platforma in Berlin, October 2024 PANDA platforma is open to all cultural workers and is ready to cooperate with people who share our values. We condemn all forms of xenophobia, including antisemitism and islamophobia. Our platform is not available for people justifying terror attacks of any kind or those who vindicate Russian military aggression in Ukraine. https://panda-platforma.berlin

I don't know what to tell
Don't know what to tell at all
Had I known, I would have told
I would've told it out
Damn I’d like to tell that!
I’d like to tell it without any doubt
I’d made a statement, so to speak
But
I didn’t know what to tell you
Till this very line
Now
That's what I told
As they say

27.11.2024 10:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Poetry is

Poetry is one, two, three
Poetry is a bird and a tree
Poetry is like to be (or not to be)
Poetry isn’t about getting a fee
Poetry is about feeling free
Poetry is a poet trying to get to me
One, two, three
It’s me

26.11.2024 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Alexander Delfinov (born 1971 in Moscow) – poet, performance & spoken word artist, journalist, civil activist. Co-founder of the interdisciplinary art and culture PANDA platform (Berlin, 2009). Winner of the international Poetry SLAM!Revue in Berlin (2007), international Poetry Slam in Jerusalem (2016), finalist of European Poetry Slam (2020). Participant in the project #IamCrazy (#ЯПсих) — a docu-series about people living with psychiatric diagnoses (Berlin, 2019-2021). Author of many poetry books. Lives in Germany since 2001.

Alexander Delfinov (born 1971 in Moscow) – poet, performance & spoken word artist, journalist, civil activist. Co-founder of the interdisciplinary art and culture PANDA platform (Berlin, 2009). Winner of the international Poetry SLAM!Revue in Berlin (2007), international Poetry Slam in Jerusalem (2016), finalist of European Poetry Slam (2020). Participant in the project #IamCrazy (#ЯПсих) — a docu-series about people living with psychiatric diagnoses (Berlin, 2019-2021). Author of many poetry books. Lives in Germany since 2001.

To the people of bluesky:
I’m naturally russophone poet
trying to be not only
russophone
it’s like telephone
but nobody answers
to your call
because nobody wants
so I thought:
why don't you go to the people
with your poem
may be nobody will answer
may be somebody will
so this is
my open poetry lab

25.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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