MINKO TANEV

 

 

Poetic Challenges

 

Solar telescopes. See.

Fire sprays swell.

The sky is bluish. And scarlet.

The words - maybe ridged.

 

The light is crazy. It's growing.

Imaginations collapse. And dogmas.

Every year we remember

the nativity scene of Jesus Christ.

 

Among the solidified magma from all over -

the town is hidden in infinity.

In temples let us repent,

so that the impulse does not stop.

 

I survive in the cruel climate

worried by insects and heat.

And with the insight we are one

in verses irresistible.

 

Autumn Etude

 

Traces of seagulls.

The scream blew up waves.

And the abyss sloped

terribly over us.

 

And I saw star signs.

And a ship with a keel wrecked.

And talk. And nations.

In the fearsome surf.

 

The world will be different

in the heavenly contours

after the Second Coming,

that began from here.

 

Musical Enlightenments

 

Bottomless nights. Breathless days.

Love, you blaze with astral reflections.

The melody in me will start ringing.

I will be lifted up by strings without beginning.

 

Far from melancholy and anger -

you bring me back to the feast sublimely.

In the ruins of a rumbling majestic.

Through the dark and sad layers.

 

An ancient dream. Heavenly Pieta.

In the light I asked to see you.

And your moon lotus bloomed

over a volcanic explosion from dead clams.

 

Peace universal in you has me pinned

and in starry revelations I tossed about.

And with nostalgic ancient senses

I sensed enlightenment in my soul.

 

Deliverances

 

I rolled the lunar oval

over the dissolved chasm –

trees, stones and mud

were torn away by the avalanche.

 

Unleashed emotions

rushed at me without pretext

and I heard the deep rumble

of merging with nothingness.

 

I was filled with blind passion

and roots started to hang me

until my fateful hour

of icy retribution.

 

Thorns

 

White thorns

with donkey thistles

are knitting thorn wreath    -

New Testament symbol

of the suffering.

 

Parody crown of thorns

to atone for our sin -

has cried out a haughty sneer

over the millennia.

 

Ellipses shape  inflorescences bloom

pink or dark red -

analog of shed blood

with the Son of God on the cross

and the Ascension.

 

Bless us,

Heavenly enlightenment.

MINKO TANEV

 

MINKO TANEV, Bulgaria. Philologist. Author of 6 books of poetry in Bulgaria. . Co-author with Stoianka Boianova (his wife and partner in literature) of four bilingual books in English and Bulgarian published upon the invitation of Cyberwit.net, India. He has participated in more than 80 world anthologies with poetry, gogyoshi and haiku, and has publications in 28 countries. With numerous awards and recognition around the world. In"Guinness World Records" for his participation in "HYPERPOEM, Collection of Authors on a World Record", Ukiyoto, India, 2023. Awards: “First World Poetry Competition of Newspapers and Televisions”, 2020, China; Chinese International Zhengxin Poet Award, China, 2022; Grand premio International Poetry Prize "Ossi di Seppia" Italy, 2023. In the list of the top 100 European most creative haiku authors. Certificate of honor for contribution to modern Bulgarian literature, 2019. Honorary Poet of Birland State, Africa, depicted on a special postage stamp. International Peace Ambassador, The Daily Global Nation, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Member of international organizations and of the Global Honorary Council, the Federation of WORLD CULTURAL & ART SOCIETY, Singapore.