Sunday, January 7, 2007

! In Memoriam: Anna Akhmatova, Poet Comments

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Last Spring I stood
in front of the bronze statue
they’ve put up in your honour
on the banks of the Neva
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Michael Shepherd
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Max Reif 24 June 2007

lovely, Michael, absolutely lovely.

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Shelley L Baxter-stanley 23 April 2007

This is a Beautiful tribute to Anna akhmatova...I do not know much about her but will look further into it to research and understand more of why she was monumented in the first place... This is a well written simply beautiful write that I enjoyed from beginning to end! Thank U 4 sharing Michael...you are a wonderful poet. =shelley=

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Michael Shepherd 24 January 2007

Anna Akhmatova (Anna Gorenko) , poet, recorder and heroine of the Stalinist years, died in 1966.

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Marilyn White 07 January 2007

a poet’s tears fall as gentle rain I love this line I think that it is the best that I have read in a while good ending.

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Alison Cassidy 07 January 2007

Poets tears - elegantly painted in this gentle poem with frozen images and a warm heart. Who is A A? love, Allie xxxxxxxxxxxx

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