MIROSLAVA PANAYOTOVA

 

Yesterday

 

Then there was everything -

and midnight talks, and music,

and the fullness of the infinite.

Grass, smiles, pure storms,

Santana, Mozart and Beethoven,

favorite dogs and cats,

trust and two or three words,

calm and full moon.

We designed in the sky

our ignorant adoration of the whole.

We were always on our toes before the real thing

and we used to say "Wait!" to the impossible.

We really appreciated the complex

and we laughed at the schemes,

we did not recognize the dilemmas

and we thought: There is time.

But the clouds were building to laugh

and applaud our jokes.

Then everything was there,

but we thought it was small.

We were children and adults then.

And now we are grown children,

but there was no time left.

 

The Truck

 

The rain in the tarpaulin was falling

and the summer was raining,

the autumn reigned

in its white smile.

The day was an ocean -

it had the grass,

the fragrant air

and the wet ground,

the sky of Thrace

and living water.

It was raining like a dream,

but it was all reality -

the magic that you were out

from your selfish garment

and every thought, drop, ring

in laughter overflow as in a song.

The rain in the tarpaulin was white

and ran like a sail,

it was more thirsty than asphalt -

the day, turned into a globe.

It was raining and the rain was blue,

and it was white then.

And we were rain and a truck,

wrapped in rain - white chain

and there was time,

the sky and the day fit.

And we sang in the rain,

the dust hovered in the sky -

it was smoke then.

And we were smoke too,

and it rained in the field.

It was a parable - so we were

then we were autumn parables,

and we were drops of white

and we laughed merrily.

And our laughter resounded

in the field, rain suffered.

There is still laughter

in the field every autumn.

 

MIROSLAVA PANAYOTOVA

 

MIROSLAVA PANAYOTOVA (Bulgaria) graduated from Plovdiv University, specialty Bulgarian philology and English language. She has published poems, stories, tales, aphorisms, essays, criticisms, translations, articles and interviews in periodical and collections. She has published the following poetry books: Nuances, 1994, God of the senses, 2005, Pitcher, 2014, Whisper of leaves, 2017, Green feeling, 2018; two books with stories: An end, and then a beginning, 2017, Path of love, 2018; two eBooks: Laws of communicatons /aphorisms/, 2018, Old things /poetry/, 2018. She is a member of the Union of the Independent Bulgarian Writers and a member of Movimiento Poetas del mundo. She is a member and a coordinator in the team to the e-journal Ghorsowar, too.  Miroslava Panayotova is an ambassador of IFCH (International Forum for Creativity and Humanity).