Near clean ponds

Hello, reader. Before you - a collection of either poetry, or songs, you yourself will figure it out if you want. I never considered myself a "paper poet, that is, I did not write rhymed texts so that someone would read them later. But all my life I write these texts and perform them on occasion under the guitar - for “my” - along the feast, in the mountains, at sports, etc. Some texts have become songs, others are not, but for some time now people dear - Professional poets, speaking to the public with their verses, began to perform my texts at the same time - also as poems. These people thought me to publish this collection.
For various reasons, I do not like the words "bard" and "poet", but to the question "who are you?" I have an answer. I am a Russian writer, because I am writing in Russian, and I consider the song a kind of literature.
Before each section of this book is a short preface, so that it is more or less clear where the author came from in the sense of the content of the texts