Akhmatova grew up during a very difficult time in Russia’s history. She learned on a close and personal level, the cost writers sometimes pay when they write within an oppressed society. Her son was imprisioned in 1938, in an attempt to silence her popular voice. He was not released until 1956.

Her longest and possibly most profound work was written during that time. “Requiem,” was penned by Akhmatova and was a way of recording life under the rule of Stalin.

A Collection of Poems by Anna Akhmatova – Online and free to read

Anna Akhmatova Biography

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If you haven’t explored poetry, thinking it too stuffy or perhaps too vague, take some time to rethink that stand. Poetry has a way of speaking to our hears and souls the way few forms of literature can. Although music has that ability, generally the written word is not so concise and prodding.

The page I have linked to below, for National Poetry Month, has a vast collection of poetry links that will satisfy any reader. They are organized in different fashion: There are poems about each season, there are collections by author, and there are collections by topic. Just stroll around a little. Give it a hour and release yourself from the noise of the technological age – the pace of a life that is going too fast for the nuturing of the human soul.

You will find yourself and those you love in these words. Somewhere, somehow, there is a poet who has found what you feel most deeply within and put it into words. Once touched by those words, you will never be the same.

National Poetry Month

The two books I have selected are excellent and very affordable. The Best Loved Poems, is only $1.50. The book below will help you understand poetry – once you know how to read poems, you will never stop!

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