BORCE PANOV
Lethargy
like a sweeper
that sweeps
the bad dreams
of the night
the town awakens
me
on the park bench
and says
Move, you
wanderer,
make a space
for this old man
and we were
sitting
with our thoughts
like with empty
streets
between us
with childish
carelessness
the dawn was
sitting as well
but for a while
because this
bench
became too small
when the day
sat besides us
like asthmatic
whose breath
is shortened
by everyone
and here it is
a thought
like a dog on a
leash
is dragging
my lethargic body
from yesterday
again
Dance(Ma)Ster
1.
Summer Moon,
dance with me
like the shadow
with its cat
I am dancing,
and my shadow
with my invisible “I” is dancing,
yet it does not
drink a drop
2.
dance with my
body, my soul,
in a time,
till the heart
drinks us up
I am dancing,
and drinking, but
one should not drink alone
with the dawn
sleeping under the thin skin of the night
3.
with death as
well,
like with body
fluid, I am dancing
yet I do not
drink a drop
I am dancing, and
I haven’t learnt to die,
although I had
been teaching myself
4.
I am dancing,
and my shadow
with my invisible “I” is dancing,
but my heart
would not drink it up…
Horizon Of
Living
No, I am not
happy with you
you live before
your time
no, there is no
room for me there
my body tells me
you are wrong,
you are wrong
nothing will
exist
if the time and
the space are apart
if you and I are
apart
from the horizon
of our living
I say to my body
that takes up
space in the future
not being aware
that
that is the only way
the future is created
I am not, I am
not happy with you
it is so tight in
here and I can hardly breathe
as I am embryo
should I give you
a birth one more time
my body tells me,
and I beg it
to bear just a
moment only
when we will not
be just a cultural layer
under the horizon
of living
BORCE PANOV
BORCE PANOV was born on September 27, 1961 in
Radovish, The Republic of North Macedonia. He graduated from the ''Sts. Cyril
and Methodius'' University of Skopje in Macedonian and South Slavic Languages
(1986). He has been a member of the “Macedonian Writers’ Association” since
1998. He has published: a) poetry: “What did Charlie Ch. See from the Back Side
of the Screen” (1991), “The Cyclone Eye” (1995), “Stop, Charlie” (2002), “The
Tact” (2006), “The Riddle of Glass” (2008), “The Basilica of Writing” (2010),
“Mystical Supper” (2012), “Vdah (The Breathe of Life)” (2014), “The Human
Silences” (2016), “Uhania” (2017), “Shell” (2018); and several essays and
plays: “The Fifth Season of the Year” (2000), “The Doppelgänger Town” (2011),
“A Dead-end in the Middle of an Alley” (2002), “Homo Soapiens” (2004), “Catch
the Sleep-walker” (2005), “Split from the Nose Down” (2006), and “The
Summertime Cinema” (2007). He has also poetry books published in other
languages: “Particles of Hematite” (2016 - in Macedonian and Bulgarian), “Vdah”
(2017 – in Slovenian), “Balloon Shaving” (2018 – Serbian), and “Fotostiheza”
(“Photopoesis, 2019 – Bulgarian). His poetry was published in a number of
anthologies, literary magazines and journals both at home and abroad, and his
works are translated into English, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Bosnian, Serbian,
Croatian, Bulgarian, French, Catalonian, Mongolian, Uzbek, Albanian, Romanian,
Polish, Italian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Danish language. Panov works
as the Counselor for Culture and Education at the municipality of Radovish, and
he is also Arts Coordinator for the “International Karamanov’s Poetry
Festival”, held in Radovish annually. Poetry of Borce Panov translated from
Macedonian into English by Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska:
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