The Wind Blows (poem)

"The Wind Blows" is a poem by Georgian poet Galaktion Tabidze. It is a sad poem, full of imagery and sentiments, and is well known in Georgia today. The Georgian version uses alliteration, repetition and rhyme, and like all his poems, is almost musical.^[1] It was written in 1920.

The poem (translation)

Blowing wind, blowing wind, blowing wind,
Leaves are swept along its path…
Rows of trees, armies of trees bend and sway
Where are you, where are you, where are you?

How it rains, how it snows, how it snows
You are not to be found!
Your image follows me, haunts me
Everywhere, every moment, always!

A distant sky seeps misty thoughts…
Blowing wind, blowing wind, blowing wind!^[1]

1. ^ Tabidze, Galaktion. "Perspectives Student Journal" (PDF). Retrieved 2 June 2012.

References

1. Merabishvili, Innes (translator) (2011). Galaktion Tabidze: Selected Poems. Tbilisi: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press. p. 151. ISBN 1905510365.