English poetry · selected poems · Love Is Poetry
Poems by Danil Rudoy gathers the English poems now published individually from Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life, together with two longer works already established on their own pages.
The poems move through love, desire, artistic vocation, wit, shame, mortality, self-command and the discipline of rhyme. Some are compact lyrics or sonnets; others unfold in several parts and let a single argument change across a much larger formal span.
Readers who want the book as a whole can begin with Love Is Poetry. The broader Poetry by Danil Rudoy page places these works beside poetic forms, rhyme, meter, translations and the Russian corpus.
English poems from Love Is Poetry
Each title below opens the poem in full with its publication context and place in Rudoy’s English poetry.
My Muse
A 2008 poem of artistic salvation and loss, framed by black, blue and the Muse’s red.
The Gamut of Truth
Two compact rhymed quatrains on flight, money, hope, uncertainty and truth.
A Game of Skat
A card game becomes a drama of attraction, risk, defeat and release.
Eternal
A love poem that measures devotion against astronomy, mortality and cosmic time.
Love Is
A four-line comic love poem whose declaration ends in ordinary domestic wit.
Sonnet I
A fourteen-line poem on desire, guilt, storytelling and formal closure.
Ticket to Impeccability
A three-part poem of death, mirrors, self-scrutiny and the discipline of becoming better.
Hepburn Blues
A three-part poem about the Muse, idealization, estrangement and the extinction of fantasy.
The Heartless Muse
A poem of fractured reflection, performance, intoxication and self-deception.
Death of Desire
A five-part sequence about artistic exhaustion, depression, disillusionment and the return of romance.
Sonnet II
A fourteen-line poem on beauty, obsession, imagination, freedom and instability after release.
Road to Paradise
A poem about love as pain, divided destiny, confinement, fame and a lost paradise.
The City Dark
A five-part poem of darkness, freedom, masks, self-importance, mortality and inward transformation.
My Farewell
A poem on poetic ambition, failed recognition, the muses, mortality and departure.
The Mastery of Rhyme
A sustained meditation on rhyme, poetic discipline, conscience, doubt and the muse.
Recurrent Pattern
Five eight-line stanzas on repetition, interpretation, spiritual love, time and self-command.
Chain of Lies
A poem of accusation, artistic identity, rage, performance and a final act of tenderness.
The Emperor of Self
A six-part poem about addiction, self-delusion, discipline, release and sovereignty over the self.
Longer and translated work
The Marriage Market
A long rhyming ballad on courtship, money, social performance and the comedy of value.
A Tragicomic Read
Danil Rudoy’s English translation of Alexander Bashlachev, preserved with Bashlachev’s authorship and Rudoy’s role as translator.
Reading paths
Love and the beloved
My Muse, Eternal, Love Is, Hepburn Blues and Road to Paradise move from devotion and idealization toward distance, irony and loss.
Poetry about poetry
My Muse, My Farewell and The Mastery of Rhyme make artistic vocation, form and the muse part of their dramatic subject.
Self-command and recurrence
Ticket to Impeccability, Recurrent Pattern, The City Dark and The Emperor of Self return to self-scrutiny, repeated error, discipline and transformation.
Formal compression
The Gamut of Truth, Love Is and the two sonnets show how short forms can carry argument, tonal reversal and tightly controlled closure.
Text and citation
The individual poem pages publish Danil Rudoy’s canonical English texts. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to the corresponding poem page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.
A Tragicomic Read is a translation of Alexander Bashlachev and retains its separate authorship and translation context on the work’s own page.
Continue reading
For poems organized around love and desire, continue with Love Poems by Danil Rudoy and Rhyming Love Poetry. For the formal craft of the English verse, continue with Rhyming Poetry.