Igor Mikhailusenko
Author and Poet, and Champion of Peace
Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
Photo of Igor in his youth
POETRY COLLECTIONS
POET'S DREAMS SYNOPSIS:
A COLLECTION OF POEMS & ESSAYS |
TRIBUTE TO THIRD MILLENNIUM COLLECTION
WITH SPECIAL EXCERPT
POETRY
MARS | PEACE | ETERNAL FLAME | BAN THE BOMBS |
POEM OF PEACE | PUTIN & ONLY PUTIN | SURVIVAL |
LOVEDECLARATION OF LOVE | A WISH FOR DOLPHINS |
NEWCOMERS FROM NOWHERE |
DON DANIELS: FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
LYRICS
STARRY MEETING | WALTZ OF LOVE | COSMIC TANGO
LINKS
POEMS FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD
IGOR'S SPECIAL POEM ONCE MORE PEACE FOR AMERICA |
SOUL JOURNEY EXCERPTS PRAYER FOR AMERICA | SHARING
CORESPONDENCE & PONDERINGS
SENATOR JOHN GLENN: MANNED FLIGHT TO MARS |
SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF AMERICA:
VISIT WITH DON LESLIE LIND
|
AN ESSAY: ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACTS |
THE LAWRENCE BRADSHAW AFFECTIONATE LETTERS
AN APPEAL FOR PEACE & LOVE ON EARTH!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BIOGRAPHY | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE |
ALSO SEE: LETTERS TO IGOR FROM ... PRES. BUSH FAMILY | MADRID'S SECRETARY GENERAL | PITTSBURG POST "GAZETTE" |
PRES. GEORGE BUSH SR. | NOVOYE VREMYA | MIKE DUKAKIS | ALI AKHTAR | ART ROSENBLUM, AQUARIAN RESEARCH "HISTORY OF THE FUTURE" | COLLECTED AUTOGRAPHS

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Dum Spiro, Spero!
Animated Flying Dove Only these who struggle live. Only these,
Whose souls are devoted to very highest dreams,
Who lay their path above the threatening steep,
Who always to one aim their souls then keep,
Who move ahead, and who, again,
As holy toil, majestic Love will name ...
- Victor Hugo
Translated by Walter May
 


 

Thought Bubble: Thoughts from Igor
AN APPEAL FOR PEACE
and
LOVE ON ALL EARTH!
A Personal Record


I am Igor Mikhailusenko, a world peace poet of Moscow, Russia.
I am popping up to say:

Have a very peaceful day!

I am not whining. I am not pestering. I am sharing my personal record, by stating the following facts:

I am not a rich man at all, I live on a small handicapped pension of $45 per month.  I was given a personal computer by people of good will here in appreciation of my little efforts for world peace through poetry.  I am palpitating with joy!

I was born in an army man's family in Moscow on 20 April, 1932, I graduated from the Maurice Thorez Foreign Languages Institute in Moscow. As a child, I lost both my legs in a street accident during the Nazi bombing of Moscow.  In 1943, my father laid down his life at the front while fighting the invading German army.  From then on, I made up my mind to devote my life to the cause of world peace, and I chose poetry as the foothold for me to push forward the cause of human peace.  Because poetry is the universal language and transcends all barriers, since it touches the heart.

You will enjoy my web page (herein) created by my esteemed friend, Deidre Madsen of the USA at:
tween.org/IgorMikhailusenko.html

I should admire to have many friends in the USA and elsewhere in the world !  Please drop me a line, will you!

Peace and Love in Light!
Bless your heart -- 

CORRESPONDENCE:

If you wish to correspond or penpal with Igor Mikhailusenko,
please send to the following address:

Igor Mikhailusenko
Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street,
House 63, Apartment 87
Moscow 123056, Russia

vitaigor@list.ru

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Photo of Igor in his youth
IGOR IN HIS YOUTH

Igor Georgievich MIKHAILUSENKO
Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street
House 63, Apartment 87
MOSCOW 123056, Russia.

vitaigor@list.ru
More ... if you please !

Dear Peace People, Ladies and Gentlemen !

Info for your consideration.  HOW TO SEND MONEY GIFTS / DONATIONS to Russian poet Igor Mikhailusenko to help him better survive and continue his work for Peace and Love in the world through Poetry:

via Saving Bank of
Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
to Mr. Igor Georgievich
MIKHAILUSENKO,
Russian world peace poet,
at his Foreign Currency Account:
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Krasnopresenenskoye branch No. 1569/01093,
Moscow, Russia,
Mr. Igor Georgievich MIKHAILUSENKO's
Foreign Currency Account: 
No.42301.840.8.3817.1300015 
( if in US Dollars)
OR
Mr. Igor Georgievich MIKHAILUSENKO's
Foreign Currency Account:
No.42301.978.3.3817.1300018
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 "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.  For everyone that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh; it shall be opened." Matthew 7: 7,8

Thank-you from the depth of my heart for consideration. Bless your heart !


 
 

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N E W S ! ! !

This year IWA (International Writers and Artists Association) President Teresinka Pereira.  (Address:  P.O. Box 352048, Toledo, OH 43635-2048, USA) is supporting Poet Igor Mikhailusenko as a candidate to the Peace Nobel Prize.  Also see a supporting letter from Neel E. Ejderskov, a Danish Medical Doctor.

This is what Russian Poet Igor Mikhailusenko says about PEACE:  "Peace is not a firebird from a fairy tale to be chased by its tail on the rocks, but an ardent and persistently active attitude towards life. Any reasonable effort is valuable for achieving this great aim of mankind, for peace spells happiness."

As a child, Igor lost both his legs during World War II, in a Moscow street accident, but he never lacked courage.  His poems and peace letters were sent to numerous publications abroad.  Inside the Soviet Union he and his works have been publicized in various journals and magazines.  He was the author of the lyrics to the Olympic song "Shine Out, Just Like a Star, Our Sporting Planet", written for the Games of 1980.  He was also awarded the badge of Honor of Moscow Peace Committee for his active work in the promotion of peace."

NB!

In the letter to each IWA Member, Dr. Teresinka Pereira, President of IWA writes:

January 30, 2005

Dear IWA Member,

I hope you take in good consideration this nomination, and write a letter of support to the Nobel Prize Committee: The Norwegian Nobel Institute / Drammensveien 19, NO-0255 OSLO / NORWAY. Tel: +47 22 443680 - 47 22430168 /// fax:+ 47 22 12 93 10

EMAIL: postmaster@nobel.no
WEBSITE: NOBEL.NO

His address is:
Igor Mikhailusenko,
Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, House 63, Apartment 87,
MOSCOW 123056, RUSSIA.

Thank you for your attention.

Teresinka Pereira, President of IWA."
 

And another letter from Neel E. Ejderskov, a Danish Medical Doctor who writes:
Attn.  To whom it may concern!

My name is Neel E. Ejderskov. I am a Danish medic.doctor.

In this humble email I want to let you know that I would like you to consider Mr. Igor Mikhailusenko from Russia  as a most worthy candidate to the Nobel Peace Price-due to his fantastic poetry and writings.

I would love from my heart to see this humble, but yet so gifted and dedicated Russian poet be honoured for a lifelong work for peace and humanity.

I have travelled the world extensively for many years.  At the same time I have travelled the inner worlds to exhaustion.  Having seen and felt DAY and NIGHT, covering all symbolic matters, I am particular fond of reading Mr Igor Mikhailusenko's great work-reflecting great-great insight, wisdom and reflection concerning LIFE-love and PEACE.

From the heart of my soul, I can recommend to you this fantastic hard working man for peace on Earth to be a worthy candidate for your fine and noble price:  The Nobel Peace Price 2005.

May God help him win!

Yours Sincerely,

Neel E. Ejderskov.

ADDRESS:
Neel Ejderskov,

Jorgensgaad 48 D.
1.st.fl.t.v.
6400 Soenderborg
DENMARK

FOR MORE INFO & REFERENCE: NOBELPRIZE.ORG


 
 


 

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by Mr. Igor Mikhailusenko
 Moscow, Russia
Eslan, Moscow, 2001 ISBN 5-94101-020-6, 96 pages

This volume is a collection of poems and essays written both in Russian and English and is intended to represent a call for peace and love, for understanding of the human condition in the present world and an ardent plea for world peace as the only means to achieve true happiness.

The book has four parts. 

PART 1:   "Poems Written in English", consists of 22 poems where  various aspects of the human life are pictured through the eyes and soul of peace-loving people.  In poems such as "I Am a Dreamer" (page 27) the global view is projected regarding matters such as religious mind and life; this poem's peaceful message describes the spring skies coming from Russia, expressing a widely accepted sense of harmony. 

PART 2:  "Three Lyrics of Pure Visions and Desires", regards the world peace and harmony as an enlightened cosmic dimension.  In the poem "Cosmic Tango", a distant view over our Earth and the distant surrounding Cosmos are seen as partners in a space of trilling and rings. 

PART 3:   "Tribute To Third Millennium", contains nine poems and is devoted to the message of hope, beauty, meditation, happiness and peace as the world enters a new era of social, economic and political challenges, when old barriers and ideologies fall to the new and become symbols of a past that must be left behind.  A dream of peace, love and hope for the co-existence of the old cultural divides is the force for a renewed path of humanity's future is pictured in these poems (such as, "Beauty Will Save the World"). 

PART 4:   "As I think of God", consists of poems and essays written to symbolize the gratitude to the contacts and exchanges the poet has experienced over time, expressing the views of the American experience and its reflection reaching back to Russian cultural values.  Pieces such as "Goodwill Mission" are reminiscent of the period when the USA and the USSR were still on a collision course in military and ideological terms - but as the 1990's have witnessed such deep political and economic transformations, the poet's long-term dream of peace and harmony come closer to realization.

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"The poet's credo is optimism and self resilience in a world of systematic pressures, benefits from the outstanding translation from Russian into English by poets Walter May and Miriam Morton."

 - Alexandru Murgu


 

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Excerpt from
Tribute to Third Millennium
=== Poems and Fiction ===

I long since have lived on Earth -
Lived ere Pyramids had their  birth...
There in Egypt, moonlit kept,
Sphinxes  have ages sweetly slept !

I remember now, e'en today,
All those years which have flown away,
And I also most firmly know _
I shall remain, for ever so !

I shall live in the oncoming age,
In the lines of the poet's  page;
And upon the sea and the land,
Always ready with verse at hand !

Through this planet I shall stride,
And on ships sail far and wide.
Let the children know not more war -
Peace in my poems is found therefore !

In the Twenty-first Century clear
Many poems and odes  here and there,
On their never-failing way -
I shall meet again New Year's Day !
May 9th 2000 A.D.
Moscow, Russia
(Page 97)


A few pages from the book by Igor Mikhailusenko
Tribute to Third Millennium
As I Look Back ... Sketches From Life  ... Reminiscences on:
Margarett Grossman, Stalin, Anita Cutting, World War II, Sergei Konenkov,
V.A. Obruchev, Postage Stamps and Cannon L. John Collins

MARGARETT GROSSMAN
One late afternoon I dreamt that 
the door unlocked, and I turned my eyes away in indifference, as I thought that, perhaps, it was my naughty aged aunt came again to tell me a new gossipy story... But it was not she, but the Future herself who has paid a visit to me - with the magic figures 2000 embroidered as a life, in a bizarre manner on her dress! 

I was sitting in a sofa in my my dressing-gown, watching TV, and 
not quite prepared for such a queenly visit... 

'Will Your Majesty, please wait 
a moment," I began in confusion and with a little bit of irony as I still was thinking that it as my eccentric aunt in disguise, "I will bring you a chair!" 

"No chair ! I will sit down in a sofa 
- with you, if you please !' 

Dear me ! Now I got to understand that it was really the Future herself who came in, and nobody else, judging by her elegant manners. 

I was still lying in the sofa, gallant as I was, with my eyes half-closed. And I felt the Future-lady was radiating all the unearthly energy, looking steadily on me... 

I awoke before the conversation 
proceeded. 

Afterwards, an idea came across my mind to ask my American friend Margaret Grossman from 
Harwington, Connecticut, USA, 
the following question:  "How do you imagine the year 2000?"  That time I worked for "Intourist", and Miss Grossman came to Moscow for a sightseeing. 

She replied my question in a letter 
of 4th April 1967 and wrote just 
this:

"About the year 2000 I don't know 
what to tell you.  I am a practical 
person, and although I am not thinking of dying for a long time, I don't think I would want to be alive then.  I am confused enough now about the world situation, and I don't think my poor brain could assimilate much more.  I can only hope that those who will be alive then, will have seen the folly of war, and be able to in peace with their fellow men.  I wish for them all the good things of the past, and the best in technology, science, health and the good things that this world offers.

" With all our complaints, it isn't such a bad world, it's the people who make it so difficult for themselves.  I try, in my small way, to be as good as I possibly can be, to treat the others as I would have treat me, and to be a friend to those who would be friends with me.  I guess I live by the Golden Rule. Does that answer your question ?  I don't think it does, but dear Igor, take me as I am, don't try to convert me, otherwise it doesn't make sense.  We live in a different world, so just let's be friends."


STALIN

I remember that in an article marking 90th Anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin, "PRAVDA" reviewed the main stages in the life and work of the man who was General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee for over 30 years. 

"In the years when Stalin was general secretary, the Soviet people, guided by the Communist Party and its central committee, carried out a task gigantic in its historic importance for the whole world and in its scope and difficulty," -PRAVDA" said. 

"In that period, too, the Soviet people, under the guidance of the Party, carried out their immortal exploit in the Great Patiotic War against fascist Germany." 

My great friend, Dean of Canterbury Hewlett Johnson, with whom I had a 15 year's correspondence, was an admirer of Stalin.  Here is a point I want to add, from Hewlett Johnson's Autobiographical published in 1968, that his wife Nowell Johnson sent me after his death: 

"In 1956, at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR, Khrushchev made the off-the-record speech to delegates only.  It was not to be released to the Press.  It was an exposure of great evils which took place under Stalin", Hewlett Johnson wrote. 

"After some months the US State Department released part of this speech.  It was used throughout 
the world to discredit Stalin.  Towns named after him were re-named; his body was removed from Lenins' mausoleum, where I had seen it side by side with the body of Lenin. 
"Stalin will be judged by history, --Hewlett Johnson wrote - and I have no doubt as to what, in part, this judgment will be.  Already the assessment is changing. Stalin began to build socialism in a backward peasant land, surrounded by armies of powerful foes. Twice he had to build, once before Hitler's invasion and once after.  By the time Stalin 
died the Soviet Union was the world's second industrial power." 

ANITA CUTTING

One wonderful starry night I dreamt that I was swimming, and in the waves I hard elbowed my way through because there were hundreds of white- and - blue  envelopes with letters from my pen pals in the stream ... 

I awoke, and at once I ran to check my letters' box.  I found but one in it, and it was an extremely interesting letter.  It came from my British pen pal Anita Cutting, from Hull, Yorkshire.  She wrote:

"Dear Igor,
In geography our teacher gave us the choice of several countries which we could study. She said Russia, and I thought this would be a good country to study, but when she said Russia everyone gave deep groans and exclaimed 'Not that country! ' 

I was very angry that the girls should take such an attitude towards your country, and if they had any sense at all they would realize that world friendship was a wonderful thing to aim for. If only H(orror) - Bombs were banned by every country!!!"


WORLD WAR II

As I look back, I remember June 22, 1941 and my native city of Moscow in the blackout... On the day the Moscow Radio announced that the Hitlerite Germany had treacherously invaded the territory of the Soviet Union along a wide front, I felt greatly worried, although I could not understand very well enough what the war will bring to my people and to myself... 

I knew war only by books, because I was just a nine-years-old boy when the war started. I heard on the wireless Stalin's address to the nation. His voice was calm and determined when he called upon all citizens to rise up in battle. 

I remember that my parents and me were highly impressed by the calmness and confidence of Stalin's. His historic speech was instilled in our hearts and made us optimistic . 

The following two years were probably the most horrible in my life. Moscow found. itself amidst cries of sorrow and in misery. It was a period when everything was being tested and that was destined. But there were no loss of hope for a final victory over the enemy among the Muscovites.  Muscovites were fighting heroically against the enemy; and among the defenders of the city was my father, an officer of the Red Army; my mother who worked day and night in a factory; and myself, who was praying in my heart, if not with my lips for our eventual victory.

Our Victory Day has come through much suffering and many sacrifices.  The World War II lasted so long and brought sorrow and great distress to millions of people everywhere. 

We, Muscovites were bombed morning, noon and night, but our spirit was not crushed though so many were killed, others like myself, maimed, and hospitals full of the dying and injured. Everything we went through very much resembles what other people did, for instance, in London about which my British friend, Laurence Bradshaw wrote to me in his letter

We must to remember the past, and to strive forward - for a durable peace!  For a decent and happy future for men.


SERGEI KONENKOV

I was a bed-patient for few weeks with severe attacks of influenza, and the usual dreams of that period were those of nightmare; again and again.  I lived through my personal reminiscences of the past war... 

By mid-afternoon, on my recovering, I dreamt that I was a witness to the triumph of the year 2000; it was a blessing to have found myself in the future where was no war, hot or cold ! There were no weeping, cries of war, doleful cries of the wounded and injured people; all lived in happiness ! 

I awoke, and I wrote a letter with a question about the year 2000 to Sergei Timofeyevich Konenkov, the out-standing Soviet sculptor and grand old man. 

He wrote his opinion in his letter dated 14th November 1968: 

"The year 1900 had promised 'unheard-of changes, unprecedented mutinies'. And that became real. I imagine the year 2000 as one of constructive peace. Good sense will prevail over human beings' dislikes.  Psychology will yield to logics. 

Sergei Konenkov." 

I offered the Editors of the newspaper "Golos Rodiny" to publish the above piece of S.T. Konenkov's letter, and they published it in the May 1974 Issue. 

Some years have passed, and the optimistic words of S.T. Konenkov' a appeared also in several other Moscow newspapers... 

Unfortunately, the year 2000 does not look peaceful; there are many flames of war in the world... But let's hope, indeed, that the Third Millennium will be peaceful and 
progressing! 

Written in December, 2000 

V.A. OBRUCHEV

On one sunny day I dreamt that I was an observer of our school (if not of the whole the UNO! ) travelling in a caravan across the Sahara Desert.  No water there... 

I was mounted on a camel next to Academician Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev, the noted Soviet geographer, geologist and explorer who at the turn of the century explored China, Mongolia, Siberia and Central Asia, building up a remarkably comprehensive picture of the geological structure of Asia. 

I asked him: "Where can we obtain water here?" And he exclaimed with a disappointment: "Oh, dear! Nowhere under the sun on this sand earth! But let's hope we'll have plenty of water very soon for everyone who is thirsty ... And happiness, too!" 

I was so much confused by hearing that strange amalgamation of the two things - water and happiness -  that I woke up; and I saw the sun's bright rays in my room! 

Then I wrote a letter to Academician V.A. Obruchev with my question: What is Happiness? Soon I received a thoughtful letter from him, and as a gift, an autographed copy of his book "Sannikov's Land". 

Writing on Happiness, Vladimir Afanasyevic Obruchev shared his views. 

"The absence of complications in the life of the people throughout the world, - Obruchev wrote - of attempts of any nation to try to overpower another, may, if you please, be considered to be the highest form of Happiness which would permit the individual to grow and develop happily." 

We became pen pals for many years, and our exchange of letter has turned into Friendship. 

Vladimir Afanasyevic died at the age of 93, in 1956. He was my first 'teacher on life, and I was pleased when the newspaper "PRAVDS" published my Reminiscences of him on august 5, 1972, titled "What Is Happiness ?"


POSTAGE STAMPS

When I was a boy of 14 years-old I often saw one and the same dream that I was a collector of valuable postage stamps... 

A few months have passed, and when I was 16, I received a collection of Italian postage stamps from Comrade Palmiro Togliatti, the General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party.  He was a great friend of Youth.  He was a person of ready response.  When I wrote him a letter and told about my interest in philately, he has sent me those very Italian postage stamps from Rome... That gift of Palmiro Togliatti gave a start for my stamps collecting. 

Among other postage stamps in my collection there is one of particular interest to me. It is a Soviet postage stamp issued in 1969 to mark the inauguration of TU-144 airplane. One can see a picture of TU-144 airplane on it and the words quoted from the works of the famous Russian airplane designer N.G. Zhukovsky:  "Man...will fly not depending upon the strength of his muscles, but upon the strength of his mind." That familiar quotation has been 'fortified' by Marshal Georgi Zhukov who wrote wrote his signature and the date: 8th June 1970, beneath in red ink and gave the postage stamp to me as a Souvenir for Peace and Love. My report on it with a picture of the postage stamp was printed in "FREIE WELT" Magazine, Berlin, the GDR, in No.04, the year 1971. 

I was very touched, too, when Soviet Air-Marshal Vladimir Sudets wrote the following words on a festive post-card - in response to my testimony that I hate war and would like to devote all my life to work for world peace, for the future where there will be no war:

"Dear Igor, 

On May Day and on the forthcoming Victory Day, I send my hearty greetings to you and best wishes in your life and work. 

Vladimir Sudets." 

With that message of good will, Sudets sent me also a Soviet postage- stamp issued in 1970 to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Victory over the Hitlerite Germany; on the back side of the postage stamp he wrote: "To Igor Mikhailusenko for remembrance and with the very best wishes in his life. Air-Marshal Vladimir Sudets." 


CANNON L. JOHN COLLINS
Yet another letter worth while recording was from The Reverend Canon L. John Collins which he wrote to me on January 23rd 1963 and sent from England: 

"In answer to your question, I would like say that public opinion can, and must, exert its influence upon the course of future events. Political and ideological views must not be allowed to hinder the co-operation for peace. 

"It is essential that in a setting of 
co-existence we do everything to resolve those tensions in the international sphere which make for war. If we do this, I believe there is every responsible hope that by the year 2000 sanity will have asserted itself in the world. If we do not, then the threat of the total destruction may, alas, be realized." 


 

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I am Igor Mikhailusenko,
and I am a peace poet in Moscow, Russia.

I am praying with my all my heart and soul for America,
these days when American cities are "bombed" by terrorists.
It is world tragedy ...
It is a nightmare ...
I am shocked, and
many Russian people are shocked, too.

May American people have less panic
and more courage these tragic days.
God Save America! 

Once More Peace
by Mr. Igor Mikhailusenko
 Moscow, Russia
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Once more I wish to speak of peace
The peace which lives within my heart.
I do not want that life should cease,
Scorched up, where lovely day can start !
Just look-- the sun shines everywhere !
So why the wish to make clouds form ?
Let all the children in bright fresh air
Laugh on our planet, free from care,
And let their mothers embrace them warm.

Peace and Love in the World!


 

Soul Journey Prayer for America
From the office of Soul Journey
Craig Russel (Shaddai Usa Akasha)
and the love of two Angels called Akasha and Asun
Soul-Journey.com

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America our Hearts are with you
America our Hearts are with you 
America our Hearts are with you

America we love you
America we love you
America we love you

America we bless you
America we bless you
America we bless you

We call upon the Hearts of Humankind to reach up to the Ascended, Celestial and Angelic Hosts. As we turn our attention to the Presence of God within each of us and to the Company of Heaven, we call forth to America the love, the peace, the protection and the healing presence that is most required at this time. 

We call forth the Light of God as in the Light of a Thousand Suns to enfold America, Her People and Her Resources, to protect her in her hour of need. We call upon the Goddess of Liberty and the Ascended Jesus Christ, the Archangel Michael and his Legion of Angels to descend over America, Her Cities and Her People and protect her from the hordes of evil.

We call upon the Angels of the Cosmic Christ to descend into America, protect her, from shore to shore and all within Her borders. The Light of God never fails and we call forth that Light that is found within each American's Heart to be the love, the healing, the nurturing and the protection each one requires.

We join our hearts in calling forth Uncountable Legions of Angels and Cosmic Forces of Light to descend into the world and remove the sinister force, the evil and all those who engage in acts of terrorism. We call forth 'God's Eternal Flame' to enfold all of those who have passed through the change called death as a result of the terrorism against America.

America shall be free and we stand with America. America we love you, we bless you, we enfold you  in Love's Eternal Presence.
 
Soul Journey will be holding a prayer meditation at 7:15 pm Wednesday, September 13 at the regular weekly Soul Journey gathering in Vancouver, BC, for the protection of America and for the Mighty God Presence to enfold all those who have lost their earth lives and for those families who have lost loved ones. 


 

Sharing with Friends

Dear and Beloveds,
Warmest Greetings !
I ask you to send this around the world.

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"ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN;
SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND;
KNOCK AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU.

FOR EVERYONE THAT ASKETH, RECEIVETH;
AND HE THAT SEEKETH, FINDETH;
AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH,
IT SHALL BE OPENED."

MATTHEW 7:7,8


 

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by Don Daniels

A bold New World awaits us
a spinning on this Earth,
an end to want and poverty
a time of happiness and mirth.

Abundant, free, non-polluting energy,
an end to hunger and disease,
the possibilities are endless
floating cars, if you please.

I have met with friends in high places
all this is possible you see,
It has already been given to us
and should be cause for much glee.

But there are those among us
who do not want these things to pass,
they would much rather
stick it to us in the Gas!

Our friends and neighbors we betray
their technology was given, stolen, taken,
all so these greedy people
huge profits could be makin.
(the relationship was adversely shaken)

Fossil fuels we keep on burning
our environment it is a cryin,
big money these people are making
while Mother Earth she is a dyin.

Minions of darkness
have caused us this plight,
the only weapon we have
is to expose them to the light.

Legions of covert workers
will then march out from their cave,
humanity will have to grow up
and learn how to behave.

There is a new Golden Age a coming
of that we can be sure,
we are working very hard
so you can stand the cure.

The Angels are on our side
that I truly suspect,
future generations untold
our actions will effect!

The world will get a lot bigger
when we all realize,
we are not alone in this universe
and see it with new eyes.

If we fix our problems
and do this as we should,
we then will be invited
to join the cosmic neighborhood!

We have friends in high places
they want us to succeed,
it is most important for us humans
to persevere in this momentous Deed.

You can certainly help us
in our epic quest,
join and work with us
if you can stand the tests!

A New Universe awaits us
a chance to visit many places,
an opportunity to meet new  people
with many different faces.

New cultures, peoples, places
a much bigger view of creation,
a future to look forward to
with hope and great elation. 


2000 Don Daniels
Don & Terry Daniels DonDaniels@officeonweb.net
Contact Author to request permission to publish.


 

Sweet Remembrances of America
... A visit with Don Leslie Lind, Mormon Astronaut
Gold Star
Igor with American Mormon Astronaut Don Leslie Lind in Logan, Utah in 1990
IGOR WITH AMERICAN MORMON ASTRONAUT
DON LESLIE LIND IN LOGAN, UTAH IN 1990
Recently, I was invited by my American friends to visit the United States of America, and I was really enjoying getting familiar with the American culture and used my stay there to do all I could to promote understanding, peace and love. Logan, Utah, is a place I have always wanted to visit. While staying with Senator Lyle Hillard and his family, I spent my time in speaking engagements, meeting USU (Utah State University) professors, and visiting many people in Logan. My firm faith and strong belief is that a free spread of ideas on peace might help the understanding and thus there will be a lasting peace in the world.

The highlight of my visit to Logan was my going through the LDS Temple and a meeting with Don Leslie Lind, Mormon, astronaut. He is a man who refused to compromise his principles, whose first priorities are his family and his church, he has been a Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints, of the Mormon Church. 

It was really exciting and very wonderful experience to meet the first Mormon astronaut Don Leslie Lind  as my interest in peace eventually led me to LDS Church. While in the United States several years ago to have a pair of artificial legs constructed, I made contact with a friend at the Gandhi Peace Center in Massachusetts. The friend was LDS, and from him I first learned about the LDS faith.

I was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ on the LDS-celebrated Pioneer Day, July 24, 1988. Thus I am believed to be become the first Soviet citizen baptized into the Church since 1917 in America. And I was providing the first ever synchronous translation of the recent LDS Conference into Russian language have really come to love the Logan LDS Temple building, and my going through it will always remain a great remembrance for me. I came from Russia with love, and I was received with much love in America. 

I was given a heartfelt reception in the Lind Family's sweet home. The air in the home was as fine as outdoors in the Spring; there were no smokers there; Mormons do not smoke. There were many lovely children around me there; they were all smiles ! We had our photographs taken together as a memento which later were published in the press, including the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" and "Dostoinstvo" in Russia. Kathleen, the wife of Don, was not only a charming woman and a very hospitable hostess, but also a wonderful cook; she offered us delicious dishes, which I haven't seen even in the best restaurants in Moscow!

Don showed me his videotapes about his terrific space flight, and offered to look through his sumptuous albums with autographed photographs of the Soviet cosmonauts.As a tribute to Don's cosmic exploit, I shared with him and with the others my song "Starry Meeting", in Russian and English, as it was broadcast by Soviet TV.

A few days after my meeting with Don Leslie Lind and his family in their sweet home, I received a very interesting letter-reply from him in response of my letter with some questions, and I would like to share it with my readers. 

Here is what Don Leslie Lind wrote to me in the letter:

Dear Igor! I am writing to you to answer your questions. I am glad to do this because I share your love for our dear planet Earth and your desire for world peace and friendship among people and nations.

Question No.1:  You asked what I thought about Earth and her people when I was out in space looking back? 

Throughout my life I have been repeatedly impressed with the grandeur of this wonderful world the Lord God created, but never as intensely as at the moment when I gazed out of the wide shuttle windows. I was glad I was alone. Because of the sheer beauty spread below me, tears come to my eyes (and in weightlessness tears don't quickly roll down your cheeks, rather they form extended watery globs in front of your eyeballs. I felt like a fish must feel looking out through the rippling surface of the aquarium until I wiped the water from my tears away ).

Many thoughts crowded into my mind:  the overwhelming beauty of it all, the millions of people who were within my view at the moment, and all were really my brothers and sisters, I felt great love for them. They were isolated in this beautiful but tiny blue and white planet in an unimaginably large void of empty blackness. This gave to me a strange more intense feeling of the brotherhood and independence of man. We need each other and we are so foolish as to pollute it or destroy it, there is no lifeboat for planet Earth. Acid rain and nuclear fall out blow over country borders. I felt a great need to preserve our world and love our neighbors, who are all mankind.

Question No. 2:  What would I wish for the younger generation? 

I would wish for them to have peace and prosperity, and friendship between all nations. That their homes would be filled with love and understanding. I believe peace in the world begins with peace in my own home. I think this is an exciting time to be alive.  There are so many new and exciting discoveries in science and medicine. If the young people will learn self-control; to reject using drugs, and learn to treat other the way they would like to be treated, the next and the next generations can only get better and better until peace finally really comes to the whole Earth. I pray this will  happen. Things have been happening so rapidly around the world with some of the different governments - by the year 2000 A.D. Who can say what the world will be like?  I am optimistic.

Question No. 3:  [What is] My conception of happiness? 

Happiness to me is to be near my family that I love, and to feel that even at deaths brief parting, someday we will be reunited as a family again. I believe that even after death I will remain my own self and will go on living in another realm. It also makes me happy to have friends. Since my space experiences I feel my range of friends has widened greatly. Happiness also comes from serving others.

Warm regards,
Your Brother Don Lind


Afterthoughts

My meeting with American astronaut Don Leslie Lind and his thoughtful letter will live for ever in my memory and in my heart. How wonderful that people can communicate, to compare notes and to make friends!

Speaking to Utah State University students in the Logan LDS Institute of Religion in October, 1990, I talked about my conversion to the LDS faith. I talked, also, about another subject equally dear to my heart: world peace.

Ten years ago, the Soviet people were afraid of the United States, I said.  Stereotypes from both sides led to equal distrust. "You were afraid of us," I said. "Each side thought the other were enemies. Today, the stereotypes are fading. "I believe our great countries can live in this century as good neighbors without any cold or hot war," I said. "It is my desire that the year 2000 be a year of constructive peace for all the world."The truth of my simple statement was evident by the warm welcome I received from the large crowd who gathered to hear me speak.  I was asked, if I could choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in America, which would I choose?I replied:  "If I stayed in America, I would have more good food and freedom to create and be able to have access to the cultural treasures here. But still I would prefer to live in Russia because my goal is to help promote understanding, be a bridge for peace, so I would prefer to live in Russia. I am a Russian ambassador for peace in Heavenly Father's hands."

22nd, December, 1993
Moscow, Russia
 


 

On Extraterrestrial Contacts: An Essay
(pp.22-23)

I've been keen in Extraterrestrial contacts  since my childhood. When  I was a boy of seven-years old, I dreamed about the Martians and the Lunar men ...When I was a boy of thirteen-years old, I came across the "First Men on the Moon", a fascinating book by  H.G. Wells, and, later on, his book, "The War of the Worlds" about the Martians ... It goes without saying, that I also read his stories such as  "The Invisible Man ", "The Man Who could work Miracles", "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes", "When the Sleeper Wakes", "The Door in the Wall", and many others.

I read with great interest the wonderful science-fiction stories by my friend Aleksander Kazantsev, who lives in Moscow and is much more above ninety-years-old now.  I was fortunate to meet him after many previous meetings, not long ago, in the Artists 'Central Club, where many people gathered to congratulate him on his 90th Birthday Anniversary.  He was very sprightly for his age, he looked still hale. We exchanged handshakes and gave each other a hug ! I read in his honour my lyrics to the song "STARRY MEETING" under loud applause of the audience. We took a liking to each other and had our photo taken  together as a memento. I keep that photo in my album alongside with many mutual photos of the first Mormon US Astronaut, Dr. Don Leslie Lind and his family with whom we met in Logan, Utah, USA, in October 1990.  Don gave a copy of the book "DON LIND - Mormon Astronaut", written by his wife Kathleen Maugham Lind on which they both wrote:

Dear Russian Brother,

In an article about you we read of your interest and concern about space exploration. We thought you might be interested to know an LDS brother has been in space as a NASA astronaut.  This was a great experience - but the thing that means the most to us is our testimonies of the Savior and His Church.  We are acquainted with many of the Russian astronauts.

With Loving Regards,

Brother and Sister Lind -
Kathleen M, Lind and Don L. Lind

 


Alexander Kazantsev gave me his book "AGAINST THE WIND" - Short Stories. He  wrote on the front page of the book: 

To Dear Igor Mikhailusenko - to a dreamer for whom one dreams and wishes that in the year 2000 AD he will remain as fresh and young with his dreams as he is today, and then he will accomplish something  unusual, necessary, and brilliant.

Alexander Kazantsev
9th December, 1960


I would like to tell some more about Alexander Kazantsev writer's profile: 

The Russian readers know him, an engineer, as the author of the science fiction  books - "The Blazing Island " and "The Arctic Bridge".  Recently he published "Northern Pier", a new novel . It is a dream of rugged region to make life on earth fuller and happier. He read so much about the Arctic and had longed to go there ever since he was a boy who admired Jack London's  strong and dauntless characters .Eventually, Alexander Kazantsev sailed to the Arctic on board the "Georgi  Sedov," a ship of legendary fame, which in 1937-40 drifted all the way through  the Polar Basin, farther to the North than Nansen's "Fram."I love science-fiction stories, and love to hear about Extraterrestrial contacts which happen now and then.  I would like to say some more in this connection.  We, Russians watched a terrific movie one day - "E.T.", with Henry Thomas as "Elliot." It was quite an enchanting story on the screen ! The cinema-theatres in Moscow were full of people.  I have had my own experience with the Extraterrestrials. And here is a true story about the comers from the outer space:One starry night, under the Moon I saw a dream... I didn't meet the Extraterrestrials, when they came into contact with me.  They were invisible,  but they brought their important info to me,  while I was a-sleeping...

They brought it to me in a poetic form, in unearthly verses... It was their Testimony. And I wrote it down when I awoke... It happened at mid-Summer night when the Moon shone bright in Tucson, Arizona, USA.  Yes, I was asleep, and some strange lyrics in the English language came into my subconscious.  The most unusual lyrics ever created by the Extraterrestrials... They were talking in  thoughts, telepathically, and in a third person, I don't know why...They uttered their message and gave a title to it as the following: 


A WISH FOR DOLPHINS

The Planet spins,
The Ocean grins,
The Love for Natutre always wins !
Let all the Dolphines swim in peace
And meet en route a sunny breeze !
- Igor Mikhailusenko
Moscow, Russia
 

 

 


 

Newcomers from Nowhere
I wrote their interplanet message word by word
and later on it was published  in a few magazines
and an International Poetry Anthology as a revelation
given to the Russian poet from above.
(Page 9)
Gold Star
Now they come ... Listen ...
Awaken your mind.
Our Age is their season
To search and to find.

Our dreams are far closer
To the truth than our fears.
They will be like roses
With rain drops for tears.

Now they come ... Listen ...
Be kind and be brave.
Take them to reason
And tune to their wave.

I believed  in miracles ever since I was a boy, and that was one of them.

Joy to the world ! The Comers are come; 
Let Earth receive her friends;
Let every heart prepare some,
Some gifts for them in hands !

- Igor Mikhailusenko
August 27th 1992
Tucson, Arizona, USA
 


 

The Three Lyrics
Gold Star
(Consisting of pure visions and desires of  Igor Mikhailusenko
translated from Russian into English by outstanding
British poet and translator WALTER MAY)
 (Pages 11-13)
Starry Meeting

 

Somewhere whirls in the cosmos a planet,
Somewhere brothers-in-intellect wait,
And to them in a speed-of-light rocket
Soon a new cosmic route we'll create.

Chorus:

Not in vain the moon shines  into garrets
And our dream alluringly inspires -
Men on other planets,
Men on other planets,
Born of earthly visions and desires.In each flight there is daring and danger,
Without risk no new victory is won,
But to some distant planet, some stranger,
With our warm earthly greetings we'll come    

Chorus.

And we'll see the new heavens a-spinning,
And new cloud-sails not known on this Earth,
And a bright interplanetary Springtime,
Which in somebody's eyes will shine forth !

Chorus.

Someone's singing a song
O'er the river's pale blue,
As if all of her youth
She would give.
I remember the first
Of my meetings with you,
In that song it is you,
'Tis you I perceive.

Refrain:

The Milky Way with radiance
Is a glimmer,
And tear-drops, like the stars,
Bedow our eyes,
Just as they did
In that departed  summer,
When the Fate then introduced us,
By surprise !     

(Repeat the last four lines)

Someone's singing a song
OÊr the river's pale blue,
And it flies to the skies,
To the heights.
I remember the first
Of my meetings with you, 
And my heart is so light,
So light, and so bright !      

Refrain.

Someone's singing a song
O'er the river's pale blue,
And it flies far away,
So sublime.
I remember the first
Of my meetings with you,
Here in Moscow it was -
Youth Festival time !

Refrain.

Waltz of Love

 

On a quiet night, unearthly,
Over Saturn - first time thus -
Two young beings danced the tango,
Thinking tenderly of us...

Two young beings danced the tango,
Danced away outside the Earth,
And to distant cosmos vistas
Rocket ships sailed peaceful forth.Two young beings danced the tango--
Saturn gave that pair a ring,
Cupid aimed straight at their hearts then,
In that interplanet Spring !On a quiet night, unearthly,
Ships went soaring to some star,
And the Nebula Andromeds
Beckoned to them from afar...

Two young beings danced the tango
There, where not a birch tree gleams,
And they dreamed, one short sweet space,
Native nightingales a-trilling,
And the Earth's most lovely face !

Cosmic Tango

 

Words by Igor Mikhailusenko
Music by Lyudmila Lyadova

On a quiet night, unearthly,
Over Saturn - first time thus -
Two young beings danced the tango,
Thinking tenderly of us.

Two young beings danced the tango,
Danced away outside our Earth,
And to distant cosmos vistas
Rocket ships sailed peaceful forth.

Two young beings danced the tango -
Saturn gave that pair a ring,
Cupid aimed straight at their hearts then
In that interplanet Spring!

On a quiet night, unearthly,
Ships went soaring to some star,
And the Nebula Andromeda
Beckoned to them from afar.

Two young beings danced the tango
There, where not a birch tree gleams,
And they saw our earthly copses,
In their starry world of dreams.

Two young beings danced the tango,
And they dreamed, one short sweet space,
Native nightingales a-trilling,
And the Earth's most lovely face!

(Repeat the last four lines)

Translated from Russian
by Walter May


© Copyright: Igor Mikhailusenko, 2004
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Mars
Gold Star

The sandstorm blizzards whirl severely,
Upon red Mars. No water there.
But could we not to Mars then, really,
Present some earthly flowers fair?
And rainbows with the flowers together,
All washed in earthly early dew,
And earthly music could we not gather,
In springtime born, and take that too?
If not today, may be tomorrow,
To Mars, by rocket, at full blast,
Let some young glorious astronaut fellow
Plant garden cities there at last !


(Translated from the Russian by Walter May)
(Published in World Poetry 1997, in India)


Igor Mikhailusenko remembers
Academician Vladimir Afanasyevich OBRUCHEV (1863 - 1956) wrote the following words to me in August 1955:

"The absence of complications in the life of the people throughout the world and of attempts of any nation to try to overpower another may, if you please, be considerate to be the highest form of happiness which would permit the individual to grow and develop happily."

Senator John Glenn
Shares his ideas on manned flight to Mars

The problem of space exploration has drown the attention of more and more people recently. The Soviet probes launched to Mars and one of its satellites, Photos, the planning mission of the American Discovery vehicle, discussions on the possible flight of a Soviet-American crew to Mars, and detection of a humanoid image on the rocky surface of Mars prompted me - during my visit to the United States on a peace mission this summer - to write a letter to Senator John Glenn, the first American who circled the Earth.In the letter I expressed my views on the proposed manned flight to Mars and asked John Glenn to share his ideas on this question. The American astronaut sent me his reply:

Dear Mr. Mikhailusenko,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me about a manned mission to Mars. The direction and emphasis of our efforts in space have changed a great deal since I was associated with the program.  In those early years the emphasis was simply putting a man into space and bringing him safely home.

Today, the benefits of further manned and unmanned space exploration are abundant in the quest for new scientific and technological discoveries. We most definitely can secure many additional rewards by continuing our efforts in space. The justification for our space program lies in the benefits it produces for us both now and in the future, benefits which enhance the lives of each and every one of us. Consider that countries human lives and millions of dollars have been saved through satellite warnings of hurricanes, typhoons, and severe storms; advanced weather forecasts have increased crop yields worldwide; and, communication satellites continually bring us closer together, linking continents at half the cost of ten years ago. Only continued national commitment to a long-term, well-funded program of space science and exploration will enable the U.S. to maintain its leadership in space. 

For this reason, I believe that we should seriously consider a manned mission to Mars. Of course,  a mission of this size will take years of development, planning, and negotiation.  Many options exist for its implementation, including international cooperation.  Although I do not rule out the possibility of a joint venture with the Soviet Union, or for that matter, other nations, I still have several questions about its implications for  technology transfer.

For example, technological advances in the aerospace industry are integral parts of the national economy. Should we allow valuable technology, developed at a cost of millions by the U.S. government and private sector, to be transferred to other countries with whom we are in competition?  This concern exists particularly when dealing with the Soviet Union because our national security  is involved.  We must be sure that the peaceful uses of space will be enhanced by the inevitable transfer of technology stemming from a joint venture.

The idea of a joint venture is being explored by NASA because international cooperation is indeed very important to the long-term future of the space program; but, we must be sure that our national security will be maintained. Thank you for the benefit of your views on this subject of mutual concern.

Best regards,
Sincerely, John Glenn
United States Senator

November, 1988
Moscow, Russia


 

P E A C E

by
Igor Mikhailusenko

Gold Star

I am -- in nature.
I all that lives
I feel alive.
In the huge boulder.
In the tender blade of grass.
In the wide-winged golden eagle.
In the seashell.
In the meadow grasshopper.
In the towering cliff and
its cumbrous snowcap... I am in everything.
Everything is my need
And it is unstingily given me.
I am -- a human...
One of many, many...
For the survival of us all I
bear responsibility,
Responsibility for survival --
That the human species may never
cease to be.

I am -- of nature.
A human.
I am nature's Brow.
And ours is a complex age.


(Translated from the Russian by Miriam Morton)
(Published in World Magazine, Supplement of The Daily World
and People's World, U.S.A. August 6, 1977)

Peace Lines Written in Prose
(Excerpts)
Gold Star

... On another occasion I dreamt I was a friend of Bertrand Russell, the well-known anti-H-Bomb campaigner and one of the greatest philosophers of the century, and that I went to see him one day and said: "Can you give me sweets?"

And he said: "Well, I'm sorry, I can't give you sweets because I have none about me but one which I need as a magic bullet for my rifle. As you, probably, know, an awful monster from another planet has treacherously attacked the human race and we shall defeat the enemy!" Frightened as I was by his words, I wasn't slow in uniting with Bertrand Russell in the desire to save human beings from the monster. And I noted with satisfaction that there was no conflict of Communism or Capitalism at the moment: all were united in the face of the imminent risk of total annihilation by the outer space invader. I woke up before the battle was decided; and I never was so much disappointed in life by the continuous East-West tension. Thank-you to the wise leaders, especially to Comrade Brezhnev, who have made the present detente possible!When Bertrand Russell was 90, I sent him a post-card with birthday greetings. He answered by a kind letter, saying that he "greatly appreciated them."

Thus our correspondence happily started. I received several interesting letters from Russell. In his letter of 5th September 1962 to me, Russell wrote: "Nothing can justify the readiness or the willingness to incinerate human beings in their hundreds of millions." And he also wrote that he was greatly encouraged by my letter of 28 August, 1962 in which I say that war is amoral and that I would not press the button.

Another afternoon when I sat in my study, watching on TV a musical comedy and felt asleep, I dreamt that I went for a stroll and met a very beautiful woman, whose skin was of chocolate colour and whose eyes shone with joy. I asked her: "What is your name, please?" And she answered with a charming smile: "I'm Africa." I awoke; and I remembered my words which appeared in the pages of "NEW AGE" (Cape Town) on 21st June 1962: "In my mind's eye I see Africa after 1000 years -- her own heroic sons reaching the stars and coming back to find the Earth the most beautiful place in the Universe where all inhabitants enjoy Peace, Freedom and Happiness. And, naturally, there is no colonialism in Africa; all Africans, young and old, are their own masters living in Prosperity!" And I was glad, indeed, when I had an opportunity to insert this forecast of mine into the pages of "FREIE WELT" (Berlin, the DDR), issue No.29, in 1971, as well !I dreamt that it was towards evening of the day and a low knock was heard at the door of my prison room. We, goodness gracious ! I dreamt that I was in prison, in China. "Enter", I said, "if you are a friend; if you are an enemy, I have no means of refusing your entrance". "I am," said Mao Tse-tung, entering the room, "friend or enemy, Igor, as this interview shall make me. I want to know if China has a future?

"I awoke very puzzled; but then there came to my mind the following words Dr. Hewlett Johnson wrote to me in his letter of 23rd April 1956, which were published on 2nd June 1956 in "The Peking People's Daily and broadcast on Peking Radio; he wrote: "I have travelled from end to end of the Chinese Republic and travelled there three years ago.

It was after a lapse of 20 years and the change was miraculous. Women freed, sickness vigorously exterminated. A wholly new honesty from top to bottom. A new vigour for work. A great belief in their future. The land is in the hands who till it. A rapid industrialization. A general spread of prosperity. A new hope for the children and for old age. The Chinese People's Republic has a very bright future before it, and already making its impress upon the world... I am quite sure that the Chinese people and the Russian people will come closer and closer to our British people in one united and peaceful world. "I deeply deplore the present disagreements, this Sino-Soviet situation. I believe they will in time be resolved.

(Published in Patriot Magazine New Delhi, Sunday, September 26, 1976.)

 


 

"Poems from the Old Writing - Book"
(Translated from the Russian by Walter May)

Igor says, "As I look back ...

Eternal Flame
Gold Star

Beside the Eternal Flame our teardrops fall,
No more in grief -- in honor of the brave !
Our people pass along the Kremlin Wall,
And pause before the Unknown Soldier's grave.

Bouquets the bring, and by him there they stand,
As if he lived, as he had not died,
As if their flowers he carried in his hand,
And saw the stars look down on him, bright-eyed...

Yes, he's alive ! For ever thus alive !
For heroes never die, they outlive war !
They teach us for our Motherland to strive,
They live triumphantly for evermore.


 


 

Gold StarGold Star
Igor with the Earl Bertrand Russel's Anti-Nuclear Badge
IGOR WITH THE EARL BERTRAND RUSSEL'S
ANTI-NUCLEAR BADGE
Touch the earth with fingers gentle
That's a simple thing for you:
Bends toward the earth a little,
Do as ungrown children do.

My own childhood is not distant
With its dandelions in the field,
With its shell-scared forest vistas,
With its grass where blood was spilled.

I involuntarily remember,
When the spring comes round once more --
In my heart still burns the ember --
What I suffered from the war.

Touch the earth with fingers gentle,
Do it simply, as a child,
When along the road you travel
Through this great and anxious world.

Yet again is peace offended,
Yet again the troops deploy.
For what aims are arms intended?
One more childhood to destroy?

Your own childhood is not distant --
Bright o'erhead its stars still shine --
We must save the world's existence:
Ban the bombs, while yet there's time !


 


 

Poem of Peace
Small Gold Star

Do not whirl above our head,
Blizzard of atomic death !
Let the sky be blue instead,
Let the children draw laughing breath !
So that we should peacefully go,
So that the sun lights all below,
So that people in life may revel,
So that roses bloom a marvel,
So that in merry circle twining
Dancers trip around once more,
We as dawn's new sun starts shining
Cry together: "No ! No war ! "

Small Gold Star

IGOR PEACE POET
Igor Peace Poet

 


 

Putin and Only Putin
Gold Star

It's my desire that now Putin
Should rule as president in my land,
Because our people all need him,
And only him, you understand!

Because our people all need him,
A wise and powerful man is he.
The Lord Himself has sent him in,
In this, our twenty-first century.

Let Russia once again arise,
Amaze the world beneath the moon,
With its heroic strength likewise,
With the sweep of its proud pinions soon !

And that is what Putin could do:
Regenerate Russia, raise her above,
Because the folk believe in him, too --
He stands for peace, for brotherly love !

(Translated from the Russian by Walter May)


FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE:
URBI ET ORBI !

 Published in
The Russia Journal
July 1-7,2000
by Igor Mikhailusenko
 
Give Putin a Chance

I watch with interest what the press media reports here.  Recently, my attention was attracted by the following:
"Vladimir Putin wants to do something for Russia.  I don' t think that he, as a man of the new generation, will go down the road of dictatorship,"  Gorbachev was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS.  These words of M.S.Gorbachev could not but please me.  Gorbachev is honest with the people, and a very responsive man.

On July 13, 1995, he gave me his book "The Years of Hard Decisions" and inscribed it: 

"To Igor Mikhailusenko -- from the author.  I wish you good health and peace of mind. Mikhail Gorbachev." 

In explaining my country' s new changes, I would like to say that World War II depleted Russia. The leaders tried mostly to do what was best for the country, but there were some who wanted to enrich themselves and not the country.  Mikhail Gorbachev is not like that.  He is very much loved by the people in our country, because he ushered in a new era of Perestroika and Glastnost.  I believe his opinions about Vladimir Putin is very true and encouraging.  I believe that Vladimir Putin is much beloved by the people in our country, too.  He is just the man to rule the country, because he stands for peace and brotherly love.  It' s essential in our time, for without peace and brotherly love there can be no genuine happiness ! Sometimes, people get upset at a leader because he cannot create a paradise in one day.  God even took longer than that when He created the earth.  We, Russian people must be patient with a leader.

Let Russia once again arise,
Amaze the world beneath the moon,
With its heroic strength likewise,
With the sweep of its proud
                              pinions soon !

And that is what Putin could do --
Regenerate Russia, raise her above,
Because the folk believe in him, too --
He stands for peace,
                               for brotherly love !

- Igor Mikhailusenko, Moscow


 

Survival - A Testimony
(Page 16)
Gold Star

No, I'm not dead !
I'm living yet.
As witness to that -
Here stands my verse
And this blue evening sweetly set
Amid the awakened
Universe. 
These lines
Which lie before you now
Are part of me, 
And they resound.
No, I'm not dead !
I'm living yet,
With a feeling of joy
Of mine
In the name of lasting peace go forth,
Pass over, many and many a time
To all those living on our Earth !

April 20th, 1986
Moscow


 

L O V E Gold Star

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I took my pen
And one white paper sheet,
And wrote a word, in one breath complete:
LOVE !
 The paper fluttered,
Suddenly seemed a dove,
And that word uttered
Soared through dark skies above,
And saved from war this threatened world we see,
And saved us from ruin and destitution !

And is this not the timely great solution
Of our one problem:  "TO BE OR NOT TO BE? !"

April 17, 1986
Moscow

Declaration of Love
Gold Star
I am a Man. In love ! In Love ! 
The planet's bells ring out above ! 
The bells of Spring, they ring and ring ! 
On Earth naught harmful can evil bring ! 
In love with all the heavenly height, 
In love with dreams in winding flight, 
In love with all the blooming flowers 
Where you are wandering hours and hours ! 
In love with water's expanse of blue, 
Where steamers white go streaming through, 
In love with forests robed in green, 
Where birds are heard and gladly seen, 
In love with earthly people so, 
With flocks of swans, as white as snow. 
In love with ancient mountain peaks 
Where Eternity still spaces seeks ! 
In love with all which round lies, 
And with the clear, so-near-me skies. 
In love with the gleam of a distant star 
To which the road is hard and far... 
And therefore I must simply say, 
"I'm burning with new love today !" 
Spring 1985
Moscow


 
 

The Lawrence Bradshaw Affectionate Letters

On March 18, 1978,  "Soviet Weekly" (London, G.B.) published the following sorrowful news titled "Lawrence Bradshaw": 

"SOVIET WEEKLY deeply regrets to report the death in London last week of the noted sculptor Lawrence Bradshaw, a long standing friend of our paper and for many years a prominent leader of the movement for friendship with the USSR.

Mr Bradshaw was chairman of the British-Soviet Friendship Society. A fellow of British Sculptors, he was perhaps best known for his monumental statue of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery.

Mr Bradshaw was 78."

I knew Mr Lawrence Bradshaw by correspondence.  In 1976, I was fortunate to exchange letters with him on Peace and related subjects.  I want to share two letters I received from Mr Bradshaw in his time.

On 1st January 1976, he wrote me a very thoughtful, very interesting heart-touching letter and sent it by surface mail, and it hit the target !  In the letter in question, he wrote: 

Dear Igor,

Forgive the delay in answering your a interesting and friendly letter. It must be over two years since you wrote me. I have not forgotten you, as a matter of fact, I have frequently discussed many of the questions you raise, with members of our Society and they are especially important as they come from somebody who suffered so much as the result of World War II.At one time the idea of this suffering would have filled the average person with rage, but today, somehow, people are coming to accept all this suffering as something to be expected, and although so many of us are involved in the struggle for peace, people have grown used to reports of torture, death, murder, starvation and all the attended misery. 

I am now thinking of the Middle East, India and the Americas, but it is also applies nearer home for we have on our own doorstep here in Britain that tragic country, Ireland.  Maybe the reason we have grown to accept it, and probably the reason we can survive it, is that the Second World War, which lasted so long and brought sorrow and great distress, as you say, to millions of people( it certainly did here in London - we were bombed morning noon,  and night) is that our peoples' spirits were not crushed though so many were killed, others, like yourself, maimed, and the hospitals full of dying and injured.But we all have learned a great deal and many of our young people are joining in the organized struggle to do everything within their power to strengthen the fight for a permanent peace.  However, we must must always be on guard for there are, unfortunately, large members of people who are just dying to get into a shooting war.  We have this reflected in our crime figures, which raising daily, and our present economic depression only too easily fosters this kind of reaction amongst those who do not understand what is happening.

We, who have dedicated ourselves to fighting for peace, must, in this coming year, redouble our efforts to break through the barrier of inertia and ignorance which so many people seem to be suffering from.  Our radio and television is giving, nowadays, a great deal of time to discussing foreign policy and, in particular, detente, which they are making every effort to turn into a dirty word.  They claim that detente is a clever and subtle device on the part of the 'Russians 'to deceive the peoples of the world by force.  So you see the task that lays ahead of us in this country is  a very difficult one for we are not only trying to explain the importance  of peace to each one of us - not that it should need explaining, but it does - we are also having to expose the misrepresentation of your country's policy. ... Probably, one day, we will all have an international language, but meanwhile we strive to understand with the knowledge we have of each others' language to exchange letters and gain an insight into each others problems and daily tasks. I, as an artist, enjoy your great museums and galleries, your impressive monuments and murals and your love of culture.  They give my wife and me tremendous pleasure. We enjoy visiting your schools and your Pioneer centres; it gives us great pleasure to see your strong, healthy children who are so well cared for.

At the moment I am painting a picture that is full of children. It is a symbolic stylized painting and represents children as beautiful fruits on the tree of life.  It includes children of all colours and races as basically we are have the same origins and spring from the same roots, and we all aspire to reach the Sun and know the Universe.

You ask me what is my conception of Happiness?  For me, as an artist, it is to be able to fulfil my creative ambitions to create works that have some social significance and can communicate my messages to others.

You ask, would the free exchange of ideas and people facilitate peaceful co-existence ?  To me this is a very real and difficult problem.  I feel it is highly desirable to have free exchanges in the ideological, scientific, technical and cultural fields.  Sport has a large part to play in this and so has trade and commerce.  But there are  many destructive forces at work in the field of international political struggles at the moment.  This is a world at war ideologically, politically and economically, and every kind of device and cunning trap is set to catch the unsuspecting citizen in order either to divert their purpose or corrupt their ideals and here we have to be very careful to protect the human ideals and interests of the unsuspecting. We must be very cautious about this, it is a grave problem.  Ideas implanted at an early age are difficult to shift, people are apt to cling to their beliefs and way of life even in the face of obvious proofs of their illogicality or irrelevance for the present period in history.  But events do influence people, and the achievements of the Soviet Union in every field of human activity and in the promotion of the idea of detente, are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

It is a long time, I know, since I received your letter, but I think you would understand if you were here in London under the political circumstances and pressure of work why I have been so long in answering.  Thank you, dear Igor, for being so patient with me and for reading these few lines and please, if you so wish, write to me again, I should like to hear from you.My wife joins in sending you all our best wishes for peace and prosperity in the New Year.

Yours fraternally, 
Laurence H. Bradshaw

A few months have passe, and Mr Bradshaw wrote and sent me another letter-reply, dated 27th July 1976. It read: 
Dear  Igor, 

Thank you very much for your many letter and press notices of your articles. The f