New Poems

TRAFFIC LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CITY – diptych

I have long been accustomed to this street –
pavement on the left, asphalt on the right;
of a lifeguard, a wonder for birds,

TRAFFIC LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CITY – diptych

I have no way of knowing – whether those
who enter – will return from here.
And whether those who have not seen me

SO CLOSE

How far is it
from a meeting to a letter,
from a sigh to a kiss,
from my sadness
to your concern?

SEA BORDER – diptych

Universe, space, planet
nature, Earth, oceans.
Animals and people and their obsession

SEA BORDER – diptych

Border – means a line from here to there?
The Bulgarian cricket jumps – and boom!
it becomes a resident of the Bosphorus.

RECOGNIZATION – triptych

I never thought
that I would ever experience such harmony –
to write poems to calm myself down.

RECOGNIZATION – triptych

I never thought
that I would ever experience such harmony –
to write poems to calm myself down.

RECOGNIZATION – triptych

But no – I already feel that not I,
but my poems have long since taken hold of me; perhaps they want,

RECOGNIZATION – triptych

I considered the poems diligent and obedient,
not self-expressive, but interconnected –
in a river flowing

STEM AND LEAVES

Is it an illusion
that the past lurks in the twilight
and the future – in the light,
just because the day is a smile?

Angel wings

I can’t look for you, because you’re in my heart!
There the storm “Silence” in my soul screams.
In a foreign land, the earth and the sky,

THE CONSCIOUS MISSION – diptych

I was born! I took my life – like a penny,
I gathered it in my palm and squeezed it…
“If they give it to you 

THE CONSCIOUS MISSION – diptych

I was born! I received my reward –
my soul found a body again.
Life was an artist,

TOGETHER WITH TIME – diptych

Once upon a time in Bulgaria, always
Time held me in its arms.
In the flowery courtyard of my youth,
light was the rule.
So ordered my mother’s magi,

TOGETHER WITH TIME – diptych

Now I hold Time in my arms!
I was weighed down by pain, effort, patience –
it cannot continue to carry me.
From evening thoughts of pure love,
I turned my age into a rule…

MEMORY – A DREAMER

Okay, draw me – there are the paints!

There is the canvas – a quiet forest decor,
sun shadows, a few white birches,

LAST LIGHT

Words. Words, more words –
they are born with us too.
Wind in cloud towers
in love, steals birds!

LAW OF LOVE

“Love in its essence
is not of this world…”
                                     Hannah Arendt

Today I dreamed – a road on white

WOUND – SILENCE

Ah, how much pain, how much work it costs me
to love you as I love you!”
                                        Federico Garcia Lorca