Мой первый журнал SUNRISE November № 1 2018 | Page 65

INTERVIEW Poetess’s Diary Darya Bychikhina Poetess Blagoveschensk (Russia) Elena Rudakova Sunrise chief editor, Blagoveschensk (Russia) It was a warm September evening. Leaves were unpretentiously rustling under our feet while the sunset was spilling nacreous colors all over the horizon. On the 25 th , participants of the City Poets' Club gathered in the library named after Chekhov in order to c o n g ra t u l a te t h e u n i o n l e a d e r, Da r ya Bychikhina, on her birthday and attend her debut recital which was called Poetess's Diary. Darya is a brilliant and charismatic girl, with a gentle soul and open-hearted. At her event, she immersed us into the sensitive atmosphere of love and human feelings and played a small one-woman performance. At the beginning, she warned the audience that her poems were rather dedicated to a lyric image than autobiographical but during the performance it became clear that it would be impossible to write those heartfelt lines without experiencing those moments of drama or joy. The author was reading her diary she had kept during her young years. Her memories about her childhood, first love, family and friendship were accompanied by g u i ta r m u s i c a n d c a n d l e l i g h t s . T h ey sometimes caused tears to appear in the spectators' eyes which were then inevitably replaced by rays of happiness and joy. The matter is that Darya believes in happiness and is able to radiate it around just like the sun and inspire people around her. participants, the poetess Alyona Bezuglaya had a recital and the atmosphere there was so warm and friendly that I dared to recite my poems. I liked it! And here I am now! Later I organized Open Marathon intended to let young poets share their creative work. To go back to my recital, I’d like to say I wanted to touch each person’s soul and I think I succeeded because many of them had tears in their eyes. And if after my recital somebody says “I love you” to his or her family or gives a hug to his or her child, it means my aim has been achieved. Their soul has been woken up. There was a tea party after the recital where all the guests celebrated Darya's talent again and shared their enthusiastic reviews in the atmosphere of togetherness. That was the time when I managed to talk to Darya who had already become a sunbeam in my artistic journey. Darya, let me thank you once again for the amazing evening and the vivid emotions you have given us! Please, tell me about your own impressions of the recital. Do you think you have managed to materialize your idea? I’m delighted! I have a reverential attitude to it. I have been writing poems since my early childhood but I did not dare to show them to anybody for a long time because I was afraid of being misunderstood and uninteresting with my creative work. This fear must have originated from my childhood but it passed off when I met some awesome girls at the event called Marathon of Roses. One of its November 2018 №1 SUNRISE 64