MEET POET: Nadia Gerassimenko
1. When did you first begin writing poetry?
I was 14. I started with both poems, prose, and short stories.
Nowadays, it’s just poetry I write.
2. What inspires you when writing each of your wonderful
poems?
Moonchild Dreams is a quintessence of several distinctive muses
depending on when a specific poem was written. As a 14 year old,
Spring was my foremost muse. Inspired by the beauty and warmth of
springtime, I wrote poems about limitless hope, undying strength, and
“perfect” love. When I got older and started dating and falling in and
out of love, I wrote almost exclusively about the highs and the lows of
relationships. Love was my inspiration at the time. In fact, a big
chunk of the book is a tribute to Love and its false self I call Imitation.
Nowadays, it’s Words that inspire me. It is difficult to explain and
even more so to believe, but words just pop into my mind forming
ideas that then materialize into poems. I must say, though, it only
happens when I am in a state of complete relaxation and openness in
mind, heart, and spirit to let the flow of inspiration and creation pour
into me freely. I also make sure to partake in activities that aid in the
creative flow as much as possible, such as reading other people’s
poetry, listening to soulful music, watching profound films, taking
simple but meaningful photographs.
3. How many poems have you written?
If we combine my poems, prose, and short stories together, I would
say more than 70 individual writings. However, some works have
been discarded or lost, so I don’t have an exact number. Perhaps
more than 50 poems and still writing!
4. Out of all the poems you have written, which one of them
would you say stands out the most to you and why?