Children's poet Moshkovskaya Emma: funny poems for kids

2025 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-24 17:46

Moshkovskaya Emma Efraimovna was born in 1926 in Moscow. As she herself recalled, she spent all her childhood in an atmosphere of mutual understanding, love and friendliness. Her uncles are known all over the country:

• M. Moshkovsky is the founder of pharmacology in Russia;
• I. Moshkovsky is a polar pilot.

Biography

Emma Moszkowska began to sing as a child. And she did it well. That is why immediately after school she entered the Gnessin School. After graduation, she worked as a soloist in the Philharmonic of the city of Arkhangelsk for 3 whole years. However, after this time, she returned home. In Moscow, she decided to enter the opera and choral studio at the conservatory.

Emma didn't even think about any literary career as a poetess. Although even then she was happy to write poetry, small comic texts and epigrams, drinking songs.

Children's poems

Only in the 60s she sent several of her poems to the Murzilka magazine for editors to judge. Not only were they printed, but also her work received excellent marks from such masters as Chukovsky and Marshak. All this prophesied an excellent future children's poetess.career.

In addition to "Murzilka", Moshkovskaya Emma sent her poems to such magazines as "Counsellor", "Pioneer". And by 1962, she released her own first collection, which collected the best children's poems. This book is called Uncle Shar.

Emma Moszkowska gained popularity incredibly quickly. Biography confirms this. After all, after the first collection, she began to release 2-3 books a year. And they were all incredibly in demand from publishers.

Cartoons

Moshkovskaya's literary career was not limited to poetry for children alone. In the 70s, she took up writing scripts for cartoons. In parallel, she recorded several records with her children's poems, which enjoyed unprecedented popularity among Soviet children.

All the poems of the poetess were written as if by a child. This style often caused an uproar and criticism from colleagues. Someone even wrote parodies of her works. But Moshkovsky Emma did not pay close attention to this. After all, the main thing is children's love.

In the last years of her life, the poetess felt very bad. That's why I didn't write anything. She only corrected and completed the poems she had once begun. It was they who formed the basis of Emma's posthumous collections:

• "Grandfather Tree";
• Good news.

Creativity

Emma Moszkowska is still popular. Her poems are reprinted and translated into other languages. And the songs she once wrotetogether with famous Soviet composers, and are now performed by pop stars.

Poetess Moshkovskaya Emma remains successful to this day. And her secret is simple - she is sincere and genuine in her feelings for children. The only pity is that all her lyrical works intended for an adult audience have remained unpublished.

Moshkovskaya Emma is the author of numerous collections:

• "The earth is spinning!";
• "Uncle Shar";
• "Listen to the rain";
• "Greed";
• "One hundred children - kindergarten" and many others.

All these books contain poems that very subtly convey the fullness of the child's worldview. In them you can see the various shades of emotions that children experience during their lives. Thanks to the musical education of the poetess, all her poems are surprisingly musical, therefore they fit perfectly to the music. They have long since become songs.

And now many people perfectly understand that Moshkovskaya is a poet with a capital letter. After all, to please a child, you need to speak the same language with him. And Emma's poems seem to be written by a kid, not an adult aunt:

I went into my offense

And said that I would not go out.

I will never go out, I will live in it all the years!

Childhood, which Emma Moszkowska talks about in her works, is an island of happiness. The main characters are, of course, children. They are all very different, but incredibly multifaceted personalities. And how I would like everything to be, as in the poems of the poetess: all the broken cups again becamewhole, and my beloved mother never got angry!