Alexandra Ochirova presents her book (My Horizons) as if she were making a philosophical poetic statement with logic.

This edition in Russian, English, and Arabic, which I had the amusement to translate, is part of the Silk Road Literature Series, a path perfectly represented by Alexandra Ochirova 's biography; she is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Deputy Secretary-General of the Eurasian People's Assembly, Co-Chair of the All-Russian Movement “For the Salvation of the People”, Member of the Russian Academy of Literature, Member of the Russian Federation Committee for UNESCO, and was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Presidential Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Population Policy since 2006.

She is now a member of several international academic associations and other NGOs, such as her Honorary Membership of the Russian Academy of Arts since 2011, Silk Road Ambassador of the Silk Road International Chamber of Commerce (SRCIC) since 2015, before that, she holds a PhD in Philosophy, which made her actively involved in organizing various international events and conferences. From 2006 to 2011, Dr. Alexandra Ochirova served as a member of the Civil Chamber of the Russian Federation, chair of the Commission on Social Development and chair of the Commission on Social and Demographic Policy. She was also a member of the Organizing Committee, and regularly participated in the International summits on women, as well as the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1995) and the United Nations World Summit for Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995).

This national and international involvement in the battlefield of human concerns, on more than one front, made the general human sense of it an unmistakable voice when we read her poems one by one, after their horizons turned “one after the other, into paths and years, where everyone gets tired of the noise of cars, and asks the Lord for love and freedom.”

This sacred duality; love and freedom are the two characteristics necessary not only for life, resistance, and distancing from the hustle and bustle that represent audio-visual pollution, but also for writing poetry. Especially poetry that music does not leave, which is evident in her experiment or project “365 Poems” that she started on April 15, 2020, because on this day, 87 years ago, the Roerich Pact on the Protection of Cultural Heritage was signed, which constituted later the basis of the UNESCO Principles.

I read the goals of the project on Alexandra Ochirova’s website, and I recall it here, because it represents a lamp that illuminates the paths of her collection of poems, or her poetic sequence; My Horizons:

“365 Poems: The memories of a person, like the memory of all mankind, are always supported by events and dates; they are significant, touching, triumphant or sad, close to the mind and heart. April 15th of this year (2020) is almost for everyone another day of expectations we are going through it. We are hopeful. But we are afraid. We analyze and try to do something. A tragic situation has arisen all over the world, no matter how it is defined at national levels, but the subjective value of human life has topped the agenda for everyone ... On this day, there is every reason to remember the great Russian thinker, artist and famous traveler Nicholas Roerich.

“Alexandra Ocherova refers to Nicholas Roerich (October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), who was a Russian figurative painter, writer, archaeologist, and philosopher. In his youth Roerich was influenced by Russian Symbolism, a movement in Russian society centered on the spiritual. Roerich was born in St. Petersburg, to a wealthy German father and a Baltic and Russian mother, he lived in different parts of the world until his death in India, and his main interests were literature, philosophy and archaeology.

Roerich was a dedicated activist of art and architecture preservation in times of war. He has been shortlisted several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. The so-called Roerich Pact (For the Protection of Cultural Property) was signed into law by the United States and most other nations in the Pan American Confederation in April 1935.

“Culture is the most meaning-forming sphere of human activity, which has already played its part in the formation of order and in the development of humanity,” says Alexandra.

“I remember this name with gratitude and a bow - Nicholas Roerich. We live in a special time, the dangers and challenges of which are dramatic and sometimes tragic before our eyes - Starting with the destruction of nature and the inner world of man, and the danger of self-destruction of human civilization. Today, this is the most important issue on the global agenda; there must be systems to save humanity, and we must have a new and safe moral order for man. As a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, I try to present The best contribution to understanding the importance of this issue, for everyone without exception, and combining knowledge, time and love for people, the world, and life in my speeches and initiatives. Now I use my poetry and every day and throughout the year I will present to you poems that I have written for all people. Some I know, others I have never met - But these lines are written with love and from the heart. Take care of yourselves, so that we may take care of each other, with our lives and all the human, good and moral things we still have."

This human statement was prepared by the best of what we present to those poems and the key to understand the meanings in the lines of fifty selected poems. They echo with her poetic and human plan: “We must do everything we can to make poetry sound all over the world”.

When the poet remembers the past, she does not do so out of a desire to submit to it, but rather a wish that that past becomes an inspiration for her. The trumpet of the melodies of freedom, love and desires, the ancient proverbs of Shamanic rites, the feeling of anxiety and the trembling of prayers... Everything has changed, and words remained, joy, tears, knowledge and opinions, notations of visions of worldly experiences, and the reality of falling into the abyss of hopeless torment, and madness remained and trembling in the knees, but we will raise our hands, after everything has changed, but no one knows that nature has eternal moments - it is the fringe logic of excitement, the last edge of revelation.

Alexandra's voice, as we read, can revive the cold uncertainty of tired souls, make them think, feel and live, open invisible doors, kindle a fading fire with the sound of night and sunrise, yes, this voice is power and space, silence, wings and freedom!

The poet's love for nature is without limit. The pristine nature, its eternal cycle, between sunrise and west, and its symbolic and real places, all overwhelm a person with amazement that turns into joy. They invite us to contemplate the window that receives the dawn, with all its splendor, because beauty is like the truth of knowledge, contemplating the hours and minutes. And the moments, where the energy of time turns into a bundle of light:

How would I see it again

At the exact hour of the being’s birth –

The scarlet ringing of the rising dawn

Revelation of the eternal fire,

Feeling the pagan power

of the primordial magic of the heights.

Everything as it is, what was not and was,

On earth, like a mystery, will come to life

And then instantly turn into

the multi-colored awakened meadows,

Where they play with the birds of lightning,

Or penetrate the loneliness of haystacks,

And in the solitude of winter standing,

The whiteness of thought and weather...

And the dawn - again like jubilation,

That nothing in nature will die.

The hope that the poet carries in the closing line; (nothing in nature will die), is that bright glimmer because the life of nature means our life, the philosophical meaning that our existence is sustained because nature is sustained, and that in order to protect this existence we must protect nature, and therefore the dictionary of nature hesitates and shines on the pages of the book: "Paradise on Earth - Protected Nature".

The UNESCO ambassador has an unmistakable message, a message for the peace of humanity, and the safety of nature alike, and she has the wrath of fire, but she hopes that harmony will prevail to include humanity with his mercy:

“It’s good that people don’t know

Everything to the end from the book of the universe:

The laws and calculations of being

To just live in the harmony of creation

And measure the sky and fields with a look,

Reading secrets in the stars and signs.

And, as in a window open in the morning,

Seeing the world, freeze with admiration,

Combining love and beauty

Like an eternal code of earthly repetition”.