Little Bear: Медвежонок
Channel: MegaMusicNotes
Date: 05/11/2016

Little bear by Edward Asadov;  Эдуард Асадов

Translation from Russian and music by Eugeniya Bentsman-Hilzinger
Drawings by Jon (Thank you Jon!)

It was a merciless and accurate shot,
and the mother-bear sunk, growling weakly.

Pain, cord, creaking of the carriage, the cage - 
all like a nightmare for the little baby-bear.

Bustle, strange town,
The zoo - green jail,
People going back and forth,
Tall buildings behind the fence...

Sunshine, laughing lips,
Cheering, horse rides,

How he wished he could get his fur off,
And run to Taiga in all his might!

He recalled his mom, sweet bee's honey 
And his heart ached,
With his wet nose, like plastic 
He sniffled corners

How it feels claustrophobic and disgusting to be in-caged after living free in Taiga,
Little bear gnawed on the steel cage wires,
And cut his mouth, and it bled

Pain, feeling hurt - all mixed in in his heart,
He growled and scratched the wooden floors,
And hit with all his might the doors, and the walls 
Observed by a merry crowd

Someone said: " Be careful, stand back in a half circle.
So little, yet so much animosity
What an angry beast! 

So much power and fury
He will tear you to shreds if he catches you"

"Yet, "the beast" only needed to poke his nose in his mom's belly...




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I wrote the music for this poem when I was a teen, so much I was touched by the words.

Эдуард Асадов .Стихи о рыжей дворняге
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMfU95E1DV8