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My Songs by Aerosmith

Although I’ve got fairly wide-ranging music interests, I was successfully, if distantly, brought up as a rock’n’roll person by my father. I came to love many music styles, but everything that’s rock and rock’n’roll still holds a tight grip. Aerosmith is one of the bands that I discovered myself back in 1990s, thanks to Russia’s first ever cable channel, 2×2. Steve Tyler was sufficiently crazy and attractive in his demeanor, apparel, physique, an’ all, for me to get hooked. But the music was still even better. The three songs in this post are all quite different, from a more philosophical Amazing through the heart-felt Cryin’ to a humorous, if not satyrical Pink.

(parental guidance advised – 😉 )

Leopold Staff – The Moment

I was writing something completely different (about German Expressionist poets) when I found a website of the poet and translator Leo Yankevich. And there was this beautiful poem by the Polish Leopold Staff, translated into English by Yankevich. The poet contemplates the fleeting nature of a moment that is as difficult to grasp as the impression of a cloudy masterpiece in the sky – and just as precious.

Leopold Staff – The Moment

(transl. by Leo Yankevich)
 
What matter that it’s passing? That it passes?

Moments exist if only to pass by,Hardly mine, no longer anyone else’s,Like cloudy masterpieces in the sky.
And moments are replaced by moments waiting,
Always in lakes among the masterpieces
Either stars or pretty girls are bathing.
Though everything perpetually changes,

 
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