(23 June 1889 – 5 March 1966 / Odessa)

poet Anna Akhmatova
#110 on top 500 poets

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  • Sylva Portoian (6/26/2012 6:52:00 AM)

    She has a voice...
    No one can cross...
    She has a chant...
    Like a 'Breathing Rose'...!

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  • Charmaine Sinclair (5/17/2009 7:16:00 AM)

    Her words are so simply hung. I love her words.

    9 person liked.
    		5 person did not like.
  • Dana Santos (4/26/2004 4:07:00 PM)

    i like it very touching

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In Memory of M.B.

Here is my gift, not roses on your grave,
not sticks of burning incense.
You lived aloof, maintaining to the end
your magnificent disdain.
You drank wine, and told the wittiest jokes,
and suffocated inside stifling walls.
Alone you let the terrible stranger in,
and stayed with her alone.

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