I Won’t Forget My Classroom Globes…

I Won’t Forget My Classroom Globes…

written by: Dmitriy Belyanin

I won’t forget my classroom globes.
All distances have grown too far.
Who’s going to grasp my trembling notes,
My gush of words, my wounds and scars?

Now miles apart from many friends,
News differ that we read and hear.
How much we wished child years to end
In sun and rain, grown days to near.

To different hymns we now stand up,
In different temples though we pray,
But nice, sweet care for friends won’t stop:
No bickering on a slippery day!

This life did strap our legs at times:
Between a rock and a hard place
We’d walk in spite of pain, grow wise,
Find strength in youth and keep our pace.

And we remembered those old days
We sent strong greetings through the Net,
We kept on smiling, lived our ways,
Found joy in photos and cassettes.

Though solo files now roam online:
They stroll across a world that’s vast,
More warmth that lasts for long I’ll find
To send to buddies from my past!

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Dmitriy Belyanin

Born in 1986, Dmitriy Belyanin is a poet, poetry translator and author of amateur videos, compiled from photos, from Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has been writing poems in English and Russian since high school, but until the mid-2010s, writing was only a personal hobby. Starting 2014-15, Dmitriy Belyanin began to share his poems and translations of classical Russian poetry online on several websites, such as All Poetry. His translations have been published on the website RuVerses (Russian Poems in Translations) and on the website devoted to the works of the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev. Dmitriy also runs the YouTube channel Dmitriy BM. This channel includes, among other content, videos of poetry recitations. He is determined to continue pursuing his creative activities.

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