Calming the Storm

Calming the Storm
Oleg Shtelman

London Prize presents
This book represents an author’s collection.

Touching, sad, and faith-filled poetry will help the readers to think deep over eternal, joyful, and beautiful matters.

The people who came to God became the prototype characters of the poetry. They live, rejoice, suffer, and still remain human.

The rhyme of the verses is correct, well-adjusted, thus reading is not only bringing pleasure, but also makes one think of many things: about life and death, good and evil, the faith and human values.

Oleg Shtelman

Calming the Storm

© O. Shtelman, 2020

© International Union of Writers, 2020

Poetry

The Happiness

A man is born into this world,
It dwells, gets strong, surviving,
Towards the happiness, this road
Is all what he is striving:

Towards the mountains to conquer,
To love, to glory, and the wealth
To force the enemies to fear,
To stay in power's control shells.

Still, there's a problem here today,
This happiness is flipping,
Like water – it just drifts away,
Like sand through fingers slipping.

Is it an enemy to blame,
Insidious case you're fighting?
Where is the safety beacon’s fame
From all this mess inside you?

It happens so that only one,
A peak abandoned in thought,
Unbowed, it still stays alone,
Only a soul of it's lord.

And very often, this same man,
It's own enemy becomes,
Living for years, even then,
Misses solution in a glance.

An answer in what Christ has taught,
In simple things He asked to follow,
That's hidden in your heart and thought,
In His to us so humble calling.

And there is harmony of soul,
As being born in heart so pure,
Will thirst for silence of the Lord,
And towards Him will open door.

And there is an immortal love,
That costs much more than diamonds,
And there's eternity's embow,
And passionless talent's finding.

And there is real power there,
As it's a miracle from God,
To stay in control of one's being everywhere,
No greater power man has got.

That happiness – inheritance so peaceful,
The simple things for us in store,
Next to eternity, so quiet and blissful,
It's where the Christ is calling His friends for.

    18.08.2017, Šiauliai, Lithuania.

The Christmas Miracle

The Earth has taken shelter of the night
And all the ways drown deep inside,
All voices became silent and the eyes are closed tight
Under the power of the darkness falling wide.

Then sound of the heavens opened doors —
Along to hymn of solemn winds so strong
A glorious angel came to Earth
And many choirs sang along:

– ”Oh, people, people! Praise the God!
He came to you with love
To find a way to people’s hearts,
A little child sent from above.”

The constellations move in skies above,
And Milky Way has made a different turn