Before you is the fifth collection of poems by the poet Nikolai Tarasov, winner of the literary and public award “Live and Let Others Live” with the award of the Order of G.R. Derzhavin, laureate of the literary and public award “Golden Autumn” with the award of the Order of S.A. Yesenin, laureate of the literary and public award “Hero of Our Time” with the award of the Order of M.Yu. Lermontov, a laureate of many literary competitions held over the years, by various organizations and associations. The poet’s first four collections, published between 2000 and 2013, enjoy continued success with the reader. In the new collection, which the reader now holds in his hands, the author placed new poems about our attitude towards Woman, nature, and the reality around us. The author's landscape lyrics amaze the reader with unusual images and vivid metaphors. Without imposing his point of view, without pushing the reader to unambiguous conclusions, the author leaves him the right to choose to make an individual (his) decision. Diverse in subject matter, Nikolai Tarasov’s poems awaken in the reader the desire to return to them again and again, because everyone finds something in them - something of his own, inherent in him alone...