Poetry & Art

I’ve walked among the dead

by Nara Hodge • February 15, 2019

I’ve walked among the dead
and felt the most alive.
There is no angst nor dread
inside the crypt tonight.
To me the dead are very real,
more solid than the living.
Among the tombs I feel the thrill
of the not knowing.
What lies ahead? Another day?
Or time has stopped for now?
Is there an end? I hope and pray
that you will keep your vow.
From inside a tomb a song is heard,
the words subdued and blurred:
‘Love and death are one and the same,
We played the deadly game..’
Among the dead I have no fear
Amongst them I feel free
In a tomb on the right rests a composer
A poet sleeps next to him.
I long for the wisdom they once shared,
I implore them to give me a hint.
The fragility of life is suddenly bare:
we’re all here for a mere stint.

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by Nara Hodge

Nara Hodge describes herself as a lover of words who is forever in love with the sheer beauty of written word and in awe of the fiercely overwhelming power of poetry.
Nara is an award - nominated poet who writes poetry in English and Russian. She has been nominated for the Russian Literary Awards 'Poet of The Year' in two consequitive years -2017 and 2018. Twenty- two of her award-nominated Russian poetry pieces were published in the Poet of The Year 2017 nominees' poetry book. Further pieces of her poetic work have been published in the Anthology of Russian Poetry 2018.
She has collaborated with Spillwords Press where some of her most powerful poems in English have been published and successfully attracted a new wave of readership. She is currently an author at the Harness Magazine and looking forward to sharing more of poetic work here.
A believer in therapeutical writing, Nara often uses writing to express her pent-up emotions and to untangle her restless thoughts. She refers to her writing in general as Restless Reflections, which is also the title of her first poetry collection in English.
Nara has a Bachelor's degree in Philology of Russian Language & Literature and a Master's degree in English & Historical Studies.

She lives with her family in beautiful English shire near Oxford, The United Kingdom.

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