Luba Yamskaya: Poet and Songwriter

Luba Yamskaya

Introducing Luba Yamskaya. Luba is from the Russian Federation and hails from Yekaterinburg City, which is east of the Ural Mountains on the very edge of the East Siberian Plain. This talented young woman started playing piano at the age of six and was taken to a musical school when she was quite young. From there she entered Music College and is currently studying at the Ural State Conservatory. She spends her spare time writing musical arrangements, singing and writing new songs, and learning English. She is also an accomplished poet and some of her moving poems will be showcased here on this site, along with a link back to her site where you can listen to her songs, well worth a visit! Her favourite English singers are: Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, George Michael, Craig David and Bobby McFerin amongst many others. She is planning on entering the Eurovision Song Contest. Please stop by her site and sign her guest book, struggling artists need all the help and encouragement they can get.
And now onto the poetry which I have found incredibly moving and that’s coming from someone who has grown tired of modern poetry which always seems so disorganised and scattered. I gave up on poetry because I could not make head nor tail of the scattered ramblings of dispossessed souls with no regard for traditional rhyme and meter let alone common sense. Readers do not want to spend hours wondering about what the poet meant, we want to feel the sadness and joy without having to piece together jumbled sentences. Luba has captured the essence of poetry with her selection on this page and I believe she has a rare gift and talent that deserves to be shown to the world. Please feel free to email her at lubayam@r66.ru with your feedback. You can find her website at http://luba.ur.ru/index.htm

Enjoy!

I have added a picture gallery for Luba this month. We writers do have faces you know:-) This is a particularly new phase for me as I have to play around with Javascript and images. Just hold your mouse over an image and watch the haiku pop up. I will add more once I have more pictures and poems.