Elizaveta Friesem
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      • Principles of communication
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          • The Myth of "Bad People"
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          • On being a scholar
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          • The Problem With Needing to Be Good
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          • Rethinking What It Means to “Love Your Enemy”
          • Rhizome in philosophy
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          • Stories we tell
          • Stories That Hold: Narrative, Identity, and the Work of Continuity
          • Symbolic interactionism and Buddhism
        • T >
          • The importance of having a purpose
          • Three Blind Men vs Rashomon
          • Three Coordinates
          • Trust and Conflict (and Dragons)
        • U
        • V
        • W >
          • What does it mean to "understand"?
          • What's wrong with them?
          • When You Are Angry at Me, Who Are You Angry At?
          • Why do people hurt each other?
          • Why does "sorry" seem to be the hardest word?
          • Why is it so hard to live together?
          • Why is language so unhelpful?
          • Moral complexity and ambiguity of truth in Wicked
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      • English poems (full list) >
        • Butterfly (poem)
        • One day, I will return (poem)
        • Where are you now? (poem)
        • Hole in the world (poem)
        • Wondering (poem)
        • What people call love (poem)
        • Lullaby (poem)
      • Russian poems >
        • Stranger >
          • Wanderer II (poem)
        • Lonely heart >
          • You Walk Along These Streets (Poem in Russian)
        • Fairy tales
        • Dreams and nightmares
        • Puzzles
        • Moon
        • Seasons
        • Muse
        • Games
        • Sketches
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My Poetry

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​I wrote most of my early poems in Russian, between the ages of 19 and 25. They were often about love and loneliness, but also about the mysteries and magic of life. They were my first attempts to understand myself and the world.

For many years after that, I did not write poetry, until I returned to it in 2021. Since then, I have continued writing poems (in Russian and in English), though not as many as when I was younger.

Sometimes I turn my poems into videos. These include both newer poems and those I wrote years ago in Russian (some with English translations). 

POEMS IN ENGLISH 

​POEMS IN RUSSIAN

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I use AI tools as a kind of writing partner—to shape drafts, clarify arguments, and explore phrasing. But the ideas, perspectives, and direction are always my own. Every piece here is part of an evolving personal project. For more details about my use of AI, see here.
  • About
  • Books
    • Media is us >
      • Principles of communication
      • Micro- and macropower
      • ACE model
      • Description of chapters
    • Hypertexts >
      • Me, looking for meaning >
        • A >
          • Are you an individual?
        • B
        • C >
          • Camus, Sartre, and the Questions of Meaning and Freedom
          • Culture is human nature
          • The Curse of Special
        • D
        • E >
          • Empathy with Boundaries
        • F
        • G
        • H >
          • Human thinking
          • Human thinking is nonlinear
        • I >
          • Ideas
        • J
        • K
        • L >
          • List of completed pages
          • The Lure of Special
        • M >
          • Make Sense
          • Mean and stupid
          • Meaning
          • Meaningless
          • Meaning-making vs. sensemaking
          • My quest for meaning
          • The Myth of "Bad People"
        • N >
          • Narratives and Circumstances
        • O >
          • On being a scholar
        • P >
          • Postmodern philosophy
          • The Problem With Needing to Be Good
        • Q
        • R >
          • Reality
          • Rethinking What It Means to “Love Your Enemy”
          • Rhizome in philosophy
        • S >
          • Stories we tell
          • Stories That Hold: Narrative, Identity, and the Work of Continuity
          • Symbolic interactionism and Buddhism
        • T >
          • The importance of having a purpose
          • Three Blind Men vs Rashomon
          • Three Coordinates
          • Trust and Conflict (and Dragons)
        • U
        • V
        • W >
          • What does it mean to "understand"?
          • What's wrong with them?
          • When You Are Angry at Me, Who Are You Angry At?
          • Why do people hurt each other?
          • Why does "sorry" seem to be the hardest word?
          • Why is it so hard to live together?
          • Why is language so unhelpful?
          • Moral complexity and ambiguity of truth in Wicked
        • X
        • Y
        • Z
  • Editing
    • Me as your editor
    • How I will help you
    • Pricing
    • Privacy policy
  • Blog
  • Learn more
    • Talks and interviews
    • Essays
    • Poetry >
      • English poems (full list) >
        • Butterfly (poem)
        • One day, I will return (poem)
        • Where are you now? (poem)
        • Hole in the world (poem)
        • Wondering (poem)
        • What people call love (poem)
        • Lullaby (poem)
      • Russian poems >
        • Stranger >
          • Wanderer II (poem)
        • Lonely heart >
          • You Walk Along These Streets (Poem in Russian)
        • Fairy tales
        • Dreams and nightmares
        • Puzzles
        • Moon
        • Seasons
        • Muse
        • Games
        • Sketches
    • Epoxy resin
    • Photography
  • Contact me