The Meeting of Poets

There is a museum in my small town. It is called with name of called as Mikhail Lermontov’s museum - named after the Great Russian writer and poet. If you have read his famous novel “A Hero of Our Time” you may know about one of its chapters called “Taman”. Taman is the place where I live. It is located in the South of Russia. Once Lermontov said that Taman was the nastiest town from among all seaside ones. Nothing has been changed here since Lermontov had left that nasty town, not even his house. Of course, it was restored and now it is popular place for tourists to visit. Sometimes museum keepers invite schoolchildren to them there to listen to some lecture. And we were lucky, finally we were invited to be introduced to the local poets. That event changed my negative vision impression of my town and local inhabitants. I saw the people loving and devoting to their little hometown. They were reading us their poems and singing their songs for us. I was stunned with their talent, I’ve never known about these adorable people who love their home despite all its minuses  negatives. They turned out to compose the hymn for our town and offered us to make something up. Just imagine, a versa verse of one of us might go in the history. This hymn will belong to that town for ever. Unfortunately, I am not talented in writing but one boy from class is. He has read his poems and it was great! In general, the meeting was very interesting and important to us. I think many of us changed our opinions of about the place where we were born and grew up. Thank Thanks to those amazing people and their not less amazing poems about their hometown, I’ve learned how to love my home.