T.K. Varenko
Tatyana Varenko is a contemporary poetess from Kharkiv and one singular event inthe art of literature.
Though born and brought up in the Ukrainian-Russian environement, Ms. Varenko has transcended her linguocultural DNA and integrated English poetry writing intothe proud heritage of the national glory. She creates multiple unrealities where dreams and ideas sprout up across the Universe like the roots of Yggdrasil.
Tatyana Varenko writes par excellence like Shakespeare, rhymes like Pushkin, loves like Dante, thinks like Machiavelli, and smiles like Nietzsche.
As a professional and scholar, Ms. Varenko devoted herself to public service inpublic education and public administration at local institutions and authorities inmatters of global communication and international cooperation. Author of novels in verse Ordeal (2010) and Elfineness (2014) and laureate of international literary awards, she creatively synthesizes realms, religions, epochs, and civilizations to create her exquisitely sophisticated chefs-d’oeuvre.
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“Perhaps, the Providence decidedThat human mind is still too weakTo master everything providedA priori; it’s doomed to seekFor any sound explanationTo what is hidden from its viewBuilding a fickle foundationFor such a changeable worldview.”
“To be a joke, it was too cruel;But to be true, it was absurd…My mind seemed to have got the fuelIt needed to become alert.”
“He was my reason for existence,Descended from my cherished dreamInto my human dull subsistence,An angel, sacred and supreme!”
“Everything science has is hardlyThe way it positively is.”
“I mostly lived in my dimensionBuilt up of fantasies and dreams,Hardly a seeker of attention,Yet, I preferred to act on whims.”
“Disarmed, defeated but elated,I knew at once you were the one.That meeting was, no doubt fated.You are my own midnight sun.”
“This monotonous world aroundSeems boring, colorless, and dull.I just existed till I foundYou in my life which was banal.”
“You are my life, my very essence,You are the air that I breathe,You are the key to my repentanceWhich I confess is not a breeze!”
“I raised my eyes to meet his gazingAnd whispered to him, “I LOVE YOU!”He looked so utterly amazing,Divinely handsome, to be true.”
“No matter what abyss was gapingBetween the worlds that we belonged,Love was a realm of an escapingDeprived of any right or wrong.”
“We cannot live to be togetherForever doomed to love and death,The latter bringing us togetherClaiming from life the final breath!So we shall love in death forever,Evicted as we are from life,As long as living shall be neverSuccessful in the love-long strife!”
“I didn’t say a word but staredAt Derek, still a little hazed.He stared back, uncertain, scared,Still unbelieving and amazed.”
“…You proved to value love and careOver the riches of your worldDespite your haughtiness, so rare,And cruelty and blood, so cold. …… And you have shownYour love for him deserves to beAnd we return you to your throne,Vampire Queen you used to be. …”
“Your destiny, forever kindred,United you in life and deathDespite the origins that hinderedYou from your loving in good faith.”
“Now we are creatures of the darknessBlessed with eternal love to last!”The knowing dawned on me with sharpnessEnhanced by glimpses of the past.”