Sunday, April 1, 2018

STACIA LYNN REYNOLDS


WELCOME
TO
OUR POETRY ARCHIVE


Sometimes a journey is found in a single step;
one forward motion. Other times life’s journey
consists of many paths until a destination is reached.
All through life, one step may be all that is needed,
while difficult paths require determination;
pushing one foot in front of the other.
These are the stages of life…
And this, is the life of a poet.

 (STACIA LYNN REYNOLDS)

April 1, 2018, is the third-year anniversary of Our Poetry Archive’s online publication!!! Myself, along with the Editorial Desk, are pleased and blessed with the outpouring of poetic beauty over the last three years. The continued support of this literary online journal has allowed great success in the Poetic community! Thank you! This fourth-year anniversary has also blessed the expansion of Our Poetry Archive; we are excited to introduce two additional members to the editorial desk: Aprilia Zank of Germany, and Leyla Isik of Turkey!!! On behalf of Our Poetry Archive, along with all the supporters of OPA, we welcome you, Aprilia and Leyla, with open hearts and minds, to Our Poetry Archive! The extension of the Editorial Desk, along with the evolution of Our Poetry Archive is astounding! Thank you all, poets and readers alike, for your support. Without your contribution, Our Poetry Archive would not have grown the way it has over the last four years. My utmost thanks to you, reaches out to every poet, reader, and supporter of Our Poetry Archive. This online journal is also a personal dream of mine, expanding years beyond memory. It has always been my intense passion to witness respect and appreciation of others through expressed thought. The expression of inner emotion, the tapestry of cultures, ethnics groups, language and race, have come together to share their personal penned words, along with respecting others who contribute, overwhelms me tremendously. I am truly humbled to be a part of Our Poetry Archive…

“The pursuit of peace lies within the soul of each individual. Reach down, deep within, and pull from within, all that will make the world sing; in perfect harmony.”
~ Stacia Lynn Reynolds~

Our Poetry Archive sings the melody of thought and expression of every contributed word. We applaud you for your support and congratulate each individual poet on your personal success as a writer. We also thank our readers, who support the numbers of Our Poetry Archive.

The Editorial Desk is also excited to introduce April 2018’s Poet of the Month Tarana Turan Rehimli of Azerbaijan. We remain obliged to her for her kind support.

Please take your valued time and enjoy the talent Our Poetry Archive has added to the April 2018 General Edition. We are also introducing fifteen new poets and poetess from different part sof the world representing diverse literary traditions and cultural heritage. With this note we would also like to thank poet Agron Shele who has invited ten new poets and poetess himself. Those who would like to participate in our upcoming editions, please send at least three poems and a profile picture, along with the explicit confirmation, of your permission, for the publication of your copyrighted materials in OPA well before the 20th of every month. If you write in another language, please send your 3 poems both in English and your native language. Also, please specify, in the subject line of your email, which edition you are submitting to, to avoid any confusion, and to assure your poems are published in the correct edition.

Wallace Huey said, “To walk the spiritual path is to continually step out into the unknown.” That being stated, Our Poetry Archive is proud to extend an open invitation to our Upcoming Anthology: BEYOND BORDERS. We will be greatly obliged if every poet will contribute to this Anthology. Last Date of Submission is 20th MAY 2018

BEYOND BORDERS” OPA ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION RULES:
OUR POETRY ARCHIVE (OPA)

1) Every submission should be of at least  of 3 poems

2) Number of poems can be up to 10

3) No line limits for the poems.

4) The English version of the poems might be followed by the original version (Only in Latin/Roman script)

5) The Anthology will be published only over the internet. No Hard Copy will be published.

6) A short Bio  around 300 words is necessary,

7) Current Profile picture is mandatory! We cannot publish any poems without the poet’s profile picture.

8) An explicit confirmation of poet’s permission to publish his/her copyrighted materials in    OPA is also mandatory

9) .PDF file will not be accepted.

10) All the poems along with the Author’s short BIO and the explicit confirmation of poet’s permission should be send only in one MS-WORD file.

11) Copyright will remain only with the poets.

NOTE: the email address for the Anthology ‘BEYOND BORDERS’ is: opa.anthology@gmail.com only. For the monthly issues the address is ourpoetryarchive@gmail.com

We look forward to receiving and reading your poems! The continued support of this literary online journal goes BEYOND BORDERS! 
Thank you
Stacia Lynn Reynolds. (Editor)

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TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI


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TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI
APRIL 2018


ALICJA KUBERSKA: What does poetry mean to you?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  For me, poetry is a divine word. This is a gift from God, who has no connection with the Earth. If God did not give poetic talent, I could not write a poem. Poetry is like an angelic song. And we compose this song with the help of God. In the eastern literature poets are valued as prophets. After the Prophets, poets are considered to be close to God. I think that this is not an accident. This is confirmation of my attitude to poetry.

ALICJA KUBERSKA: What’s according to you the meaning of poetry in the contemporary world?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:   In my interviews I frequently face this question. I think poetry is the biggest policy. Poetry is the best way to influence the deep layers of human consciousness. When political speeches did not affect public consciousness, the rulers used the influence of poetry. This took place throughout history. The most influential and talented poets were invited to live in palaces. Because they must serve the policy of their country directly with their verses. Today poetry is not only to relax our soul, our taste. It has a deeper meaning. In times of wars, poetry is the best way to influence the human heart and the human brain. In the era of wars, we must use the power of poetry. In my opinion, the meaning of poetry is important to direct for this purpose.

ALICJA KUBERSKA:  Can you describe your creative process while writing a new poem?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:   It's very simple. Most of my poems I wrote in the night. And I do not think that I'll sit at the writing desk and write poetry now. One topic makes me think. And one day... When I go to bed at midnight, one line of an unwritten poem "trembles" my brain, and then another line is born ... and I have to get up and write this poem that does not allow me to sleep. All my poems have gone through this creative process.

ALICJA KUBERSKA:  Did it happen to you that a poem was just your dream ?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:    It was so, I wanted to write a poem about a specific topic (about my mother), but I could not write. My fear that I could not write a decent poem about my mother, prevented me. Later this poem became my dream. This poem still remains as a dream.

ALICJA KUBERSKA: Tell us about your inspiration. What’re the most important subjects to you?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  My source of inspiration is my Motherland, my family and God's love. The theme of my poems is different. I do not choose a topic, my observation of life implies a topic.


MARIA MIRAGLIA:  Which were the emotions that inspired your first verses?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  I wrote my first poem about the world. Then I was 14 years old. The poem was called: World, I do not yet know you. Indeed, then I did not know the world well. And I've thought about this a lot. Then I wrote poems about the rain. Then  love poems ...

MARIA MIRAGLIA:  Was your aspiration to become a poet or did all happen by chance?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:   I have loved literature since childhood. But I never thought about becoming a poet. In my opinion, poetry is not a profession that can be chosen . I do not think this is a coincidence. There is no coincidence in life. Everything we live in is what God knows for us. We call coincidences what we do not know.

MARIA MIRAGLIA:  Who is the first person you read your poems to and why?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  : First I read my poems to my daughters. Because they are very young. And the idea of a young man is always fresh, so their thoughts interest me more.

MARIA MIRAGLIA:  Have you published any poetic anthology, if so what did you feel the first time you got it in your hands?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  :  Yes, the anthology of poetry, which I first published, was called Steps (1996). I was chairman of the Poetry Association called Steps. The name of the anthology was the same as the name of the association. At that time I was very young, and my first book of poems had not yet been published. It was so nice when I first took this anthology in my hands ... As if my book was published. This joy can not be expressed in words. I was very proud of my work.

MARIA MIRAGLIA:  Who are the poets you prefer reading? Do you get inspiration from them?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  There are many poets and writers in the world literature, which I love.. It is natural. Because I teach world literature at the university. But my most favourite poets are in Azerbaijan Mohammed Fizuli, in Europe Victor Hugo.


APRILIA ZANK:  How important is accessibility of meaning to you? Do you challenge the readers to work hard to decipher your poems, or do you prefer transparency of meaning?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  Of course, every poet wants the reader to understand it. But when writing poetry, he does not think about it, he remains committed to his artistic style and the requirements of the topic. I am also. I do not care if the reader understands my poem easily, or vice versa. The authors do not think about such problems during the creative process. But, like all poets, for me the love of readers is also important.

APRILIA ZANK:  What kind of poems do you write mostly? Do you have recurring themes, or are all your poems unique?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  It is difficult to answer this question. This can tell the reader, literary criticism, how much I repeat myself or not. Only I can say that there is no limit to the theme in my work. Sometimes I can turn again to the same topic. But this will not be a repetition of the same poem that I wrote earlier on this topic.

APRILIA ZANK:  Do you think your poetry is typically feminine / masculine? If yes, in what way?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  In past centuries, such an idea was formed in society: women can not write poetry (romance, etc.). George Sand (Amantine Lucille Aurora Dupin), Sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anna Bronte, Louise May Olcott, George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans) and others, wrote their work under the names of men. But their creativity is stronger, despite what is feminine. I think that women write differently. They are mysterious when they write, and they deeply touch the human soul. This is due to femininity. I also write a woman, and my poems are feminine.

APRILIA ZANK:  Do you write mostly about yourself, or do you also have an open eye /ear for the issues of the world?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  If a writer writes only about himself, it is his inability. All my poems have messages to the world. Even in my love poems. A smart reader can immediately understand this.

APRILIA ZANK:  In what way is your poetry different from that of other poets?

TERANE TURAN REHIMLI: I have no idea about this. Or I do not want to move away from humility.


LEYLA IŞIK:  What are the main factors to make poetry real poetry?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  The  real poem should be sincere, the poet should be able to convince the reader. The poet cannot convince the reader of the truth, in which he himself does not believe. Therefore, the most important factor is sincerity. The poet must write down those things that he knows very well. He should not confuse the reader with a topic he does not know deeply. The poet should not fit into the time frame. Real poetry marches ahead of time. The poet should not even repeat his thoughts, he should always try to say a new word.

LEYLA IŞIK:  Do you think imagery is important in poetry? Where does the importance of imagery begin in a poem, where does it end?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  : In my opinion, the image is very important in poetry. However, the dynamics of this image does not recognize any boundaries.

LEYLA IŞIK:  What are the most used types of poetry in your country?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  The most popular kind of poems in azerbaijan literature is syllable.we are the nation which historically write on aruz and syllable kind.but it is more interest to free poem last years and the number of these poets increase.I also write the poems on two of them: on aruz and sullable.

LEYLA IŞIK:  What’s important to be a good poet? To write good poems?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  To be a good poet, you need to have a nice and wide heart. A good poet should be a loyal person.

LEYLA IŞIK:     Who are the most important poets and their main properties nowadeys?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  I do not want to show specific names. But there are many important poets. They do not write for glory, but write so that everyone will hear the voice of their souls.


DEBORAH  BROOKS  LANGFORD:  Understanding poetry begins with visualizing the central images in the poem. What do you see, taste, smell, hear, and feel? What is the imagery of your poetry?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  Of course, poetry is a figurative thinking phenomenon. I live in poetry. For me, every poem has its own smell, taste, voice and color. The drawings tell me about a magic world. The images of my poetry are nature, Homeland, love, the world's various problems - in short, the essence of life.

DEBORAH  BROOKS  LANGFORD:  What is the mood of your poetry? (Or How does it make you feel?)

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  Many of my poems are pessimistic. But this does not mean that there is no love for life in my poems., No passion, etc.

DEBORAH  BROOKS  LANGFORD:  In your poetry who is the speaker of the poem? Are you speaking to yourself or to others?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  I always a speaker  in my poems.  Sometimes I speak for myself, and sometimes for others

DEBORAH  BROOKS  LANGFORD:  What is the message of your poetry?  What messages do your poetry convey?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  The message of my poem is humanism and goodwill, the restoration of justice in the world. Message to my poem - you can stop wars with poetry.

DEBORAH  BROOKS  LANGFORD:   Does the internet and social media contribute to the success of your poetry? Is this the reason you write for?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:   Internet and social media to ensure the success of each poet. In today's world without it it is impossible to develop. Virtual dating and friendship with new friends are also very important. Our friendship with many respected poets and writers began in social networks. Literary sites often publish my poems, articles and poems are published in anthologies. This is a great success. I believe these successes will increase in the future.


NILAVRONILL SHOOVRO:  Thank you so much dear poet for the interview. We would like to know your personal experience with OPA as a literary web journal. Would you like to share anything more with our readers?

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI:  Thank you for taking the interview. The questions were interesting. I do not know how much my answers will satisfy you. But I have tried to answer sincerely. My personal experience with the OPA once again taught me that literature - fulfils a great mission. The OPA Web-journal introduce world poets  and value their role in our lives. I am proud to be a member of the OPA poetry family. I hope the OPA and Azerbaijani poets will implement joint projects in the future. Thank you very much for giving my poems on OPA web journal and anthology pages because you value me. God bless you, literature angel Mr. NilavroNill Shoovro! I wish you great success in this sacred path.

Dr. TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI is an Azerbaijani poet, writer, journalist, translator, literary critic, teacher, academic, is an active member of the International Literary Agency in Turkey and Azerbaijan. She is a PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of Azerbaijan and World Literature Chair of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, author of 7 books and more than 400 articles. She is the editor and reviewer of 20 monographs and poetry books.The work has been published in more than 15 Western and Eastern countries. Her works were published in Azerbaijan, England, Italy, Spain, USA, Germany, Belgium, Chile, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tataristan, Uzbekistan and other countries. Poems and articles have been published in many international sites around the world, on periodicals and in anthologies.

TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI



Tarana Turan Rahimli

YOU CAN’T DRAW MY PICTURE

You can draw a picture of a tree or a stone
You can draw picture of fading winter in spring
You can take all what you see in this world,
You can’t draw my picture…

You can resemble my eyes and eyelashes,
Even you can find the color of my word.
You can draw the blind patience inside of me,
You can’t draw my picture.

Maybe you can draw the heart of a stranger,
Maybe you may knock down the expectation  in my inside.
Maybe you may pour my spirit into the paints,
You can’t draw my picture.

My image will always be in front of your eyes,
But you can’t be able to see my own being.
Your lifetime may be over, but that picture won’t be over,
You can’t draw my picture.





THEY WILL RECOGNIZE ME FROM MY LOVE

Some will leave their traces, in this world
Some won’t be satisfied with anything.
A grave of somebody
Will mention about its owner,
A word of somebody
Will be left after somebody.
All will desire
To leave any word in this world.
The centuries will cause to forget them.
The false castles made of lies
Will be destroyed.
The people will know everything
They will reprobate after knowing.
The fires will be made
For the guilty past.
They will choose only the words
And will keep only them..
And ..and they will recognize me
From my love!





INSIDE ME THERE IS LOVE EVEN TO A STONE.

Again my eyes shivered,
How cold your looks are!
Your words as if are frozen,
There is no warmth in your words.

Ices have been hung from your eyelashes
Snow has been spread on your hairs.
As if the cheeks of the winter
Have been kissed by your lips.

You made my spirit to be cold,
Your heart is ice, your hands are snow.
Don’t worry that you are so cold,
Inside me there is love even to a stone.





POETS

They come toward themselves
Till the day they know who they are.
They come to life and pass away thousand times
Till their death-hour comes.

They set webs like spiders,
They pull the nets inside of them.
Whatever grief they have, gather in heart
And the grief turns to a new poem.

They share grief with mountains,
They shake the hands of rocks.
They teach stones how to speak,
They don’t know the language of destiny.

The God always protect them,
There is God’s light in their hearts.
There is a pure child inside of them
God make this child grow old, but not be adult.

They pass away being hung from their words,
They don’t let the words be choked.
They are tired out worn-out life,
They die in order to come to life again.





PRAISING OF STONE

Don’t hurt feelings of stone calling a cruel man as “ stone”,
There is a such stone centuries beat it, don’t touch that stone!
If you work for the stone, it will appreciate you,
There is such word if told to a stone, it will melt,  heart won’t care it!

Those what a human being forgets, the memory of stone doesn’t forget,
There are those who throw stones unfairly, the unfair stone isn’t thrown.
Tell your dreams to the flowing waters and tell your secret to a black stone,
Stone- is your friend at the end of life and it is brother of your grave.

The locked doors were opened after we knocked them with stones,
The stones built our houses, stones run off from our ways.
My friend, strange man can’t bear to listen to our grief, but stones listen to,
Stones shed tears for the motion of life, stones whines for grief of life.

Some people earn money by cutting stones,
At the end we harden like stones, at times stones disgust us.
The leaves, flowers fade away and stones are left on the hearth
The stone of thousand years makes the history remember us.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED @2018.
TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI


Dr. TARANA TURAN RAHIMLI is an Azerbaijani poet, writer, journalist, translator, literary critic, teacher, academic, is an active member of the International Literary Agency in Turkey and Azerbaijan. She is a PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of Azerbaijan and World Literature Chair of Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, author of 7 books and more than 400 articles. She is the editor and reviewer of 20 monographs and poetry books.The work has been published in more than 15 Western and Eastern countries. Her works were published in Azerbaijan, England, Italy, Spain, USA, Germany, Belgium, Chile, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tataristan, Uzbekistan and other countries. Poems and articles have been published in many international sites around the world, on periodicals and in anthologies.


ADOLF P. SHVEDCHIKOV



ADOLF P. SHVEDCHIKOV

IN THE DARK DAYS AND YEARS GONE BY

In the dark days and years gone by
You cannot see more a way
To give the essence of things to philosophers.
And it is not clear what we expect,
Whether we are able to reach depths again,
Or quietly live under the trembling aspens?
Will someone need my job,
Or nobody will find my lost tracks?
So it's time to say goodbye!






RUSSIA

Mountain stood for Millenniums,
Hard storms and winds raced,
Grains of sand disappeared,
But mountain stood proudly!
Year after year, eroded cliffs,
The sand accumulated
At the foot of the mountain,
The tornado blew with an animal grin,
The torrents of water
Cut off from the rock grains,
Littered bottom of unfamiliar rivers,
Erased in memory overgrown paths,
Not seen was guiding milestones...
Since then, there is no point in the battle
With the elements,
All obey the devil's game?
To forget of Millennial Russia,
Do not think about the dawn in the dark night?







THE HORSES RUN AT A GALLOP

The horses run at a gallop,
You cannot hold the reins now,
What chaos of floods,
Oh, the humanity, we are waiting for?
Surely again engulf the wave of the Flood?
Nobody will get out of the flow,
If EACH nor understand it!

© ADOLF P. SHVEDCHIKOV, PHD, LITTD (RUSSIA)
ADOLF P. SHVEDCHIKOV

ADOLF P. SHVEDCHIKOV: Russian scientist, poet and translator. Born May 11, 1937 in  Shakhty, Russia. In 1960 he graduated from Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry. Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1967. Senior researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Since 1997 - the chief chemist of the company Pulsatron Technology Corporation, Los Angeles, California, USA. Doctor of Literature World Academy of Arts and Letters. He published more than 150 scientific papers and about 600 of his poems indifferent International Magazines of poetry in Russia,USA, Brazil, India, China, Korea, Japan, Italy, Malta, Spain,France, Greece, England and Australia. He published also 17 books of poetry. His poems have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Hindi languages. He is the Member of International Society of Poets, World Congress of Poets, International Association of  Writers and Artists, A. L. I. A. S. (Associazione Letteraria Italo-Australiana Scrittori, Melbourne, Australia). Adolf P. Shvedchikov is known also for his translation of English poetry ("150 English  Sonnets of XVI-XIX Centuries". Moscow. 1992. "William Shakespeare. Sonnets." Moscow. 1996) as well as translation of many modern poets from Brazil, India, Italy, Greece, USA, England, China and Japan. In 2013 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.