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Black Bird

A Poem by Black Branches

Fly away black bird, perhaps you’ll encounter a carcass or someone kind will offer it to you. You’ll hide in the dry bushes with food,..

The Sea

A Poem by Black Branches

I was simply singing, watching red poppies in the field, thinking of nothing, just remembering the sea of my childhood, as Banville does in h..

Calmness

A Poem by Black Branches

Somewhere far away meadows,a small spring,the sound of a lyre,smiling people.In cornfields, peasants working.I searched for a medicinal herb.

Trees

A Poem by Black Branches

We brought saplings of trees,radiant peach, apple.We nurtured them, they bore divine fruit.I wanted to export them, but in vain,says the farmer from G..

Mental

A Poem by Black Branches

You talk to everyone, everyone in your heart, But you’re not a god, You’re just a woman sitting in a subway car, talking to herself. Yo..

Desire

A Poem by Black Branches

I want to live in a house where silence reigns,to hear the echo of sounds drifting in from the yard.To live like the beautiful tales written on the pa..

Suburb

A Poem by Black Branches

Living in the suburbs has a special charm, especially if you live in one of the quarters of Tbilisi's Varketili district, where the sea is also nearby..

Clarity Beyond Madness

A Poem by Black Branches

Madness, like a human's mark, It claims that everything is fine, It plays, as for it, God has changed, Faith is either exalted or diminished. Sign..

Black Curtains

A Poem by Black Branches

The wind stirs my black curtain. I hear the sound of branches, The wind sweeps the dry grass on the fields, Like waves on the sea. Cold hearts, ..

Action

A Poem by Black Branches

I place my slippers by the bed, Hoping I’ll wake up to find them where I left them, I do this over and over, feeling the same. Habits, ..