{"id":98153,"date":"2024-04-04T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82-%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%81%d0%b8-%d1%83%d0%b1%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%be-%d0%b2%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b5\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:35:59","slug":"the-wind-carries-beautiful-weather","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-wind-carries-beautiful-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tThe Wind Carries Beautiful Weather\t<\/h1>\n\tThe wind carries beautiful weather.<br \/>\nIt rages, it moans in us.<br \/>\nThe wind carries beautiful weather.\nThe beautiful is beautiful and passes.<br \/>\nWhat remains is the sadness.<br \/>\nSometimes it slowly engulfs us,<br \/>\nlaying itself on our eyes<br \/>\nand thickly, layer upon layer,<br \/>\ndarkening our view.<br \/>\nThen something torments us, terribly heavy and painful,<br \/>\nsomething large, and ours,<br \/>\nto others inconceivable.\nSometimes we are touched by the sadness like a quaking aspen,<br \/>\nlike a lattice of mist above a purling river,<br \/>\nwhich we stand beside staring out aimlessly, mutely.<br \/>\nThen all things have the look of a fairy tale,<br \/>\nand we say: it is all so impossibly beautiful.\nThe wind is raging and moaning.<br \/>\nThe wind carries beautiful weather.\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-wind-carries-content\/\">The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather<\/a>,<\/em> 1957<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content\/\">The Long Coming of the Fire<\/a><\/em>, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.\n<p>Listen to the poem in Macedonian<\/p>\n\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0410\u0446\u043e \u0428\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0432: &quot;\u0412\u0435\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0442 \u043d\u043e\u0441\u0438 \u0443\u0431\u0430\u0432\u043e \u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435&quot; \/\/  Aco \u0160opov: &quot;Vetrot nosi ubavo vreme&quot; (1957)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFcI1d8TBV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\n\tThe wind carries beautiful weather.<br \/>\nIt raves within us, then resounds.<br \/>\nIt carries beautiful weather.\nAll that&#8217;s\u00a0lovely is bright but\u00a0changes,<br \/>\nand\u00a0grief\u00a0remains.<br \/>\nSometimes grief stretches inside us,<br \/>\nlies down in our eyes<br \/>\nand thickens the layers<br \/>\nthat dim the lights we watch.<br \/>\nThen an aching of awe<br \/>\nblows cold and lost, unknown inside us,<br \/>\nhaunting us deep.\nBut then again grief plays light<br \/>\nas breeze in a trembling poplar,<br \/>\nlight as a net of mist on the river<br \/>\nthat we watch thoughtless and mute.<br \/>\nIn those moments all things legend themselves<br \/>\nand we say: how impossibly bright it all is.\nThe wind raves within us, then resounds.<br \/>\nThe wind carries beautiful weather.\n\tImitation by Roderick Jellema from a translation by Ivanka Koviloska-Poposku,<br \/>\nin\u00a0<i>Reading the ashes, An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia<\/i>, 1977\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather The wind carries beautiful weather. It rages, it moans in us. The wind carries beautiful weather. The beautiful is beautiful and passes. What remains is the sadness. Sometimes it slowly engulfs us, laying itself on our eyes and thickly, layer upon layer, darkening our view. Then something torments us, terribly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":98423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102831,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98153\/revisions\/102831"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}