Константин Воскресенский - Response to Critics
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From the second collection of poems "In Jest or Seriously” (Russian: В шутку ли всерьёз).

To: Vadim V. Bakulin, Sergey Y. Smetanin, Natalia Y. Kazanskaya

In English (interpretation by Lord Muck):
Nice praise like dancing cha-cha-cha,
like fragrant tea with baklava.
And it's a hundred times more sweet,
when such an expert wants to greet!

So hard to judge us, one must think,
we can start fighting in a blink.
But only then we will see growth,
when we are hard kicked on the nose:

for rhyme – that is not pretty good;
for words – that can't be understood;
for meaning – in a shroud of mist;
for style – that's so hard to admit...

"Too many errors! Where’s the sense?
The grammar here's like an offence...”
"Some things are good, some points are bad –
no spark of God within them yet..."

A fair critic, as a father,
stands by his point, won't choose another.
He'll give a tawse, a teaching touch,
because he... loves me very much!