About the book: 2017 / Collection of the poet Vladimir Shamkin presents to the reader poems that are simple and understandable to everyone. They deeply touch with their utmost sincerity and openness, because the author expresses familiar, everyday experiences, reflections on a difficult life, full of trials, but still happy, because it is not meaningless. It is this simplicity, clarity, artlessness that sincerely waves comfort and reveals romance, true poetry and hidden beauty in the most seemingly ordinary feelings: love for the homeland, its history, in hard work and honesty, in everyday life..