Tatiana Butaeva

Tatiana Butaeva

Tatiana is originally from the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, but has been living in Sacramento, California for a long time. She tells about herself: “There are many nationalities mixed in my blood. I’m a walking cocktail. I know for sure that in our family, both on my mother’s side and on my father’s side, there are Jewish ancestors, my great-grandfather, an Austrian subject, was Catholic and lived in Vienna. There is a Ukrainian grandmother and even a Gypsy great-grandmother. Perhaps that’s why I am so drawn to the four elements, and I recharge from them in a short time. The smell of fire, wind, bright stars, the swiftness of a river – all this is so close to my heart. I would easily trade any comfort for the nature of nature. In the city, everything is hustle and bustle. Running in circles. No peace. Poetry for me is both harmony and a way of expressing myself. In them are my thoughts that have settled in the corners of my soul. And in the form of quatrains, they burst out. It happens that I just sit in silence, and suddenly it’s as if wind and rain are crashing down on me – inspiration comes. Thoughts, lines, pictures in my head run. It’s good if there’s a piece of paper and a pen or a phone at hand. And then everything subsides. And after about five minutes, you may not remember a single line that you wrote. That’s how poems are born”…