Hello! My name is Daria Lebedeva. I am an emerging poet using the format of the rhymed lines to pack in the depth and complexity of the thoughts provoking the thinking process to start up. I am Ph D in philosophy and probably because of it the choice of themes for poetic expressions is of the most challenging ones. I venture to label my style – that I think I am aware of and I am developing it in everyone’s stanza- as empathetic poetic storytelling placing woman in the center of narration. As much as I can I try to dive inside an imaginary personality – the protagonist is simply called ” she” in my poems- who faces some difficulties to overcome and as result to win over the routine of uselessness and idleness to arrive at the blessed island of a lifelong meaning. I need to add – the language of poetry is not my native language that makes the task more challenging for I have been writing in English and Polish, rare in Russian. So I must admit another label to my style- linguistic experiment. I am excited for trying poetry marathon for the first time being motivated to test my skills and imagination under pressure of time.