Weird postcards: pirozhki

     Pirozhki [eng. should be patty-cakes, buns, or even cookies] is a very short genre of Russian poetry, which was born naturally from one of the Japanese short poetry haiku [=hokku] poetic internet forums in 2003, now widely spread. The genre was influenced by ironic poetry of the turn of XIX and XX centuries and poets from Oberiu [=the Union of Real Art  - 1927 - beginning of 30s assotiation of Russian poets from Leningrad, probably most famous of them is Daniil Kharms] and Oleg Grigoriev, as well as impromptu events by poets from 'Mindless Art Group' in the end of 80s and 90s; also they are compared to poetic forms of Igor Guberman - gariki and monostichs by Vladimir Vishnevskiy.

     Pirozhok is a tetrastich written in the iambic tetrameter using the 9-8-9-8 layout, without either rhyme, punctuation marks, hyphens, or capital letters, sometimes with intentional grammatical and spelling mistakes. Pirozhki are playful, absurd, and commonly have an unexpected twist to meaning in the end. Some authors say they 'express playful attitude to the feeling of the tragic elements of life and absurdness of being'.

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all received from moscowowl, Russia (direct swap): poems, from website perashki.ru, by Alexey Dikalin, illustrations by Nadezhda Opalinskaya [her portfolio on illustrators.ru]

UPD: you can see all of them here, in the original post in LJ postcrossing community

     So i'll try to translate those four, i received, with no punctuation marks - probably with my bad English they will be unreadable, but still xD

     1 [reference to Gagarin's flight]:

     hello do not hear what don't hear

     the single pass don't hear who

     no i did not turn on the tely

     hello do not hear you yuri where are you

     2: metallurgical capacity

     oleg put in the application

     of mind he added after thinking

     the thought as heavy as an ingot    

     3: olga dabbed with her finger in the sky

[means 'miss a point by a mile' or 'be off the mark']

     when asked probably you are married

     and sky from the questions like that

     looks like a sieve already

     4: death rides from work in the evening

     spins the pedals at an easy pace

     the life is good only thing that irritates me

     is ungreased bicycle chain since the morning