Longings

By Rosina Neginsky

Once a friend-scientist asked me: “What is meant by the inner life?”

I answered: “Read my poetry.”

He read, and he said: “Now I know.”

Longings is a collection of the songs of a soul singing, crying, and laughing about the sun and the moon, reflected in the seemingly still waters of the lake, hiding the never-peaceful water-god and his court.

Longings paints the images of myriads of feelings and thoughts that find their lives in words. These words sketch the invisible world of pain, love, struggle, hope, hate, and all that our life offers us when we hear its voice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jun 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781638291374

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Longings

Rosina Neginsky

Austin Macauley Publishers

Longings

About the Author

Dedications

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgments

Poet’s Preface

I Meditations on Art

Please don’t say…

Conspiracy

Attic

Eyes

Anima’s Keyboard

Music

Painting

II Flowers

Orchid

Joy

Roses

Claire

III Disconnection

Disconnection

Castle

My Lunar Friend

A Song

Mirage

Lazy Feelings

Golden Light

Vampire

Crows

IV Is it Love?

How Nice…

Friends

I Want to Go to Japan

Woman in Gray

Connection

Rebecca and the Knight

V Escape

Moscow

Tango

Race

VI Rebirth

House

Sleep

The Gnome and the Dragonfly

Life’s Smile

Blue Bird

Glance

My poem

Hope

Clairvoyant

Spring

Postface

About the Author

Photo credits: Boris Guessel

Rosina Neginsky comes from a cultural and linguistic background that comprises her in-depth knowledge of three languages and three cultures: Russian, French, and English. She teaches art history and comparative literature at the University of Illinois in the US. She was born in Saint-Petersburg, studied literature and art in Paris where she grew up, and did her PhD in literature in the United States. She is the author of a bilingual book of poetry in Russian and English, Juggler (2009), and of a book of poetry in French and English, In the Garden of Luxembourg (2015). She published some of her poems in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies such as Quiddity, Austen International Poetry Festival anthology, White Oak Press, The Halcyone Literary Review, and a few other. She is also a literary and art scholar and the author of Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was.

Dedications

To people who touched my soul,

To moments that lifted my spirit!

Copyright Information ©

Rosina Neginsky 2022

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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

Neginsky, Rosina

Longings

ISBN 9781638291350 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781638291374 (ePub e-book)

ISBN 9781638291367 (Audiobook)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022907866

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Acknowledgments

Since English is not my native language, working in the Four Writers workshop was a helpful experience. I am grateful to my fellow workshop writer Marcia Zuckerman and our leader, Coleen O’Brien. They perceived my poetry from the point of view of English-speaking readers and were able to help me find the direction to explore. Their remarks were inspirational. They allowed my imagination to fly and to create images that were more suitable and understandable in the English language but at the same time to preserve my own style and originality.

List of Illustrations

Fig. 1. Lyubov Momot. Conspiracy

Fig. 2. Lyubov Momot. Attic’s Secrets

Fig. 3. Vladimir Kara. Roses

Fig. 4. Lyubov Momot.