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With Russian-Armenian twins Anya&Andrei Grigorian
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I traveled to Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida, from Denver 1998

The Word Crystallized in a Rhyme is indeed

A type of a concord between different deeds,

The rhythm renders music which will be intact

Divided by even numbers of tact.

The role of the key is harder to grasp -

For that you would need to look in the glass

Of your inspirations, or who is above,

Or maybe below, your secret enclave.

Combined with your muse, your heart and your beat,

The verse does amuse, recharges and treats

Your word like a song, forever alive

In which to believe you don’t need to lie

On top of your feelings – you wouldn’t deny

The measure of wheeling that renders the rhyme

For ease in the dealing with word so dry

And tattered that peeling it wouldn’t survive

But а touch of new coat of polish revives

And doesn’t agree that he loses who tries*

To look for new order in tuning the keys

To steаl it from neighbor or be its jockey**

To stretch and to sing another’s heartbeat

May be inspiration to measure the feat

Of visible maker to match with his muse

And so to take its daily obtuse

And overstretched bucket to fill it with ore

Derived from the farthest visible shore

To find new agenda and meaning of word

To use it again like a fearful sword

To cut and unpeel,

To dare and feel…                - Anya 16.02.2005

 

* I refer to my play of word and meaning within various patterns of other's verses for my own stories, as in the example on the bottom page where I model my Russian poem after the epigraph. 

** DJ (disc-jockey)

My Chinese niece Annanlee Chang
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is the brightest 6-year-old I've ever known. Thousand Oaks, CA 2003

HE IS THE SON

He is the One

Who promised was

The Wizard of Oz

The King of Wands

The hymn of Morse

The Raven of Rose

Who sees through the sky

Who knows he dies

To be back again

To wander through rain

And fog and the pain

Will leave my domain

For good – from this day

My Word will remain

Like my golden rain

Like the dove of love

Like lightning above

The waters that start

The day that was dark

The evening of hope

The slippery slope

The legend of Doom

For those who loom

Above their night

To growing delight

Of my shining flight -

My Order of Knights

Is giving you rights

To speak what abides

On maiden who writes

The verses of skies

Who sees through the lies,

I was a live-in babysitter for Ben and Sarah Reed
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in 1992 in Colorado when they were 3 and 10. Haguenau, France 1996

Who trembles instead

When her daily bred –

Her poems - are sad

To hear that Dad

Is asking his Ann

To stop beating ‘em

For her understanding

Of what happy ending

They bring her in plight

To say that her right

To finish what started

The day when her papa

Accepted the illness

Of sadness and stillness

That plagues many cities

And aches through the ethers

The only redemption to which is the love

To planet and people and all the above

And all the below and all that remains

Unspoken, unseen, ungathered, unveiled

By order of those who wants that the pain

Will stop manifesting in Children of Rain

Who fly to the planet of stardom and gloom

To make it arena of wisdom and boom

Of prophets and seers through all thinning mirrors

And vanishing glasses, and listening ears

To what has become the myth and the tale

About finding Holy the Grail.

And so the story begins; it will last

Till star super nova will finally blast

Through ethers to home where she will resign

To Sparkling White Dome to ever be Mine.

Twin brothers Kasimir and Valentin Martikainen,
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sons of my friend Outi, came to visit Moscow from Finland, August 2003

"...Не о прощеньи и не о моленьи,
Не радости, не тягостной тоске,
Я песню спел бы о Святом гореньи,
Что льет Любовь разводом на песке.

 

В чем же Она, единственная, Пери,

Что жизни и венец и тропка в Небеса,

Не нужны ей мифические двери,

Ей только слышаших угодны голоса.

 

А лучше слышашего..

Ведь глухих Она не видит,

Ей всё равно и все для Ней равны,

И никого Она не ненавидит,

Она Любовь и Женщина мечты..."

 
- Глупый

James is back to his homeland!
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Children's playground at Maiko, Japan

I also have two cute nephews Dilon and Ryan Bowers
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whose mother Patty, James sister, is half-Japanese. Denver 1999

Thus spoke ONE WHO REMAINS

WHO HE IS

Who wants you to be his special niece

Who wants you to know about his gift

Of being star nova who needs to be swift

In telling the story to people in need

About the Children of Rain who indeed

Will come very soon to the planet of doom

To change it to subject of mercy and room

For many artistic endeavors and talent  

To see through the veils and ever be valiant

In fighting Old Order of changing the human  

To what was portrayed in the Show of Truman.

To fasten your belts, you don’t need to know

The middle and end of upcoming show,

You need to be cautious in choosing the words

For words are the whistles for tempering swords

Of truth and rendition, of fighting the stars

Who think their only weapon’s guitar

And ever mistaken, for tongue is the force

That renders the entrance through many of doors

That lead to the Era of wisdom and lightning --

The Rain Children / Les enfants de la pluie
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A startling animated film by Philippe Leclerc, France/South Korea 2002

For which to begin, we need to be fighting
With out lores, traditions and fears

Of going through doors that seem so rare

To open until we cross our borders

And stop to follow permanent orders

To be isolated, competitive beings

And start integrating our feelings

With our knowledge of what we don’t know

And for this we need the star super nova

To render the story a different perspective

On why do we need to be calculative

To answer the question of why we come here

To live and to die to only adhere

To limited rules of game and behavior 

That leads to abuse and belief in the saviour

Who cures the illness instead of the patient

And renders the stillness to each single nation

That wants to hold dear its holy traditions

And conquers its need for its own volition.

 

  -  Anya Zontova
January 28, 2005
(It was the coldest day of the winter in Moscow,
22 Celsius) 

Allie and Crystal were the first American kids
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I befriended in 1991. Seattle, 1994

Alyonka
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I am 3 years old, Kazakhstan, USSR

Она не знает горестных смятений,

Пред ней все песнопения равны,

Она вкушает их пыльцу без промедленья,

С себя снимая новый круг вины

 

За то, что их размером зарядившись,

Она без сожаленья отдает

Им той любви пример, что в ритме отразившись

Их размышлений, новый свет прольет

 

На все бесстрастные рабочих заявленья

О том, как их цветочек путь во мгле нашел

К тем, кто отдав себя их бурному цветенью,

Земле предав, сады все обошел

 

Не в поисках потока вдохновенья,

Земли чудес и таинств бытия,

А заслужить надежду исцеленья

От глухоты и выпить из ручья

 

Его закона совершенства, и обитель,

Открыв свои сомкнутые врата

Для тех, кто разомкнул священное соитье

Трудов и веры, чем закрыл уста

 

Не только он поверившей в их музе

Рожденный бит и млечные слова,

Но и свои ослабил с песнопеньем узы,

Раскинув сети лишь в поселке, где царит молва,

 

Которая прикинувшись размолвкой,

Сумела снова путь к писанью проложить

Ее избранника в обличьи мышеловки

И тем опять свое призванье заслужив,

 

Она вкусила от откушенной морковки

Ее поклонником с завидною сноровкой.

  

   - Aня

 
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