Tatyana's birth as human being
Took place in 1982,
In June, when weather was appealing
And sparkling with the morning dew.

As she grew up, too shy by nature,
Her friends were Pushkin, Dante, Wilde
Who wrote of love and of adventure -
She dreamt of the vampire kind.

As time went by, she took to versing
When she got hardly over ten,
And life was constantly coercing
Tatyana to employ her pen.

The Foreign Languages Department
She joined in 1999
Served as a very good incitement
For her verse writing to refine.

Then the first sketches were laid out,
When she was drawing to 18,
Ordeal began to come about
To lighten up her dull routine.

Now she's working as a teacher
Training her students' English skills
That her department has to feature
And help acquire in the drills.

My interests depend on season,
Contingent on my whimful mood,
And I do not need any reason,
To alter them for bad or good!

I'm very easily inspired.
But am unlikely to obey
To what I do not deem required,
To what is leading me astray.

Compulsion or intimidation
Will do no good to make me yield
Unlike respect and fascination
Which have more chances to succeed.

I like my work appreciated
And all that's beautifully done,
Things that are quite sophisticated,
And something to be kept for fun.

* * *

I'm working on my second novel
Where new skeletons emerge
From the cupboards of the story
Told in Ordeal and on its verge.

It will be more large-scale in action
And introduce the elfin breed
Describing their interaction
With the vampire kind amid.

The two most powerful races
Will meet in fateful intercourse
Unraveling deceitful laces
Woven in love, intrigues and wars.

* * *

I'm also planning on compiling
A book of poems I've composed
That I consider most beguiling
And feel like making them exposed.