Rubai. Ice on chrysanthemums. Pearls

Rubai. “When the tablet of fate would suddenly become subject to me …” These words of the outstanding poet and the scientist of the East Omar Khayyam (104S-1131) most clearly characterize his work. All Khayyam’s poetry is imbued with faith and immortal creative mind of man. His quatrain (Rubai) speaks of the meaning of life, about a person’s insecurity in the face of fate and time, about the charm of fleeting moments, every reader will find something in them, secret and not yet expressed.
Three lines, frozen like ice floes on chrysanthemums … Three small lines, in which great feelings, experiences, the national spirit of the Japanese, their aesthetics and the eternal desire for the beautiful fit. This is a hockey, the traditional genre of Japanese poetry, simple in shape and incredibly mysterious in content.
The miracle of poetry, embodied in five lines; The words-mesh, strung on the thread of the magic formula 5-7-5-7-7; Life, death, love, hatred, friendship, betrayal, enclosed in thirty -one syllable – all …

Translator
Gluskina A., Markova Vera Nikolaevna
Artist
Osipov I.V., Bublik B.F.
Publisher
Folio, 2014
Series
Mini