PETROUCHKA ALEXIEVA

 

 

The Singing Waterfall

 

It is July and I am in this track.

In the Carpathian Gorge, in high altitude

Vălul Miresei, a gorgeous waterfall

is singing with joy. Water jumps from above,

then forms a cascade bursting cooling spray,

in majestic display. Crispy-clean air

enters my lungs. It makes me feel light

like a butterfly.

 

Even in the winter, it doesn’t freeze,

It still sings and dances over the cliffs,

giving life to the surrounding ever-greens

and joy to people like me.

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Sunflower Fence

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Summer is my favorite season.

Reason?  - My zodiac time, festive and bright!

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Every year I plant a giant sunflower fence.

Bare little seeds germinate on my window,

then they thrive in the soil and

go high reaching the sky. Happy giants smile,

grow 10-14 feet tall, even more.

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My gold giants dance and sing

with the bees, whisper to the evening breeze

and go to sleep, like tired playful kids.

They make my day festive and bright!

What I can do without them? Summer time.

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The Songs of the Pottery Wheel

 

Life is a pottery wheel. Its clay

gets every day new shape, new consistency.

Clay molds when the wheel of time spins.

Clay changes colors when life’s seasons

put their drops of hues in our souls.

The rainbow’s palette of feelings

shimmers with joy in the sky of love.

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Clay gathers tears of sorrows

when some dark clouds

gather and crawl from above.

They wet and soften its pillows,

but the pottery wheel still spins and sings

its songs of life.

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PETROUCHKA ALEXIEVA

 

 

PETROUCHKA ALEXIEVA: “You must face life obstacles with strength and dedication, but healthy dosage of humor is the best weapon to survive” (Petrouchka Alexieva) Ms Alexieva is known as a well-developed LOVE poetry and a feminist writer, a guest-lecturer, academic mentor, key note speaker, TV talent and a highly recognized scholar. She was first published at age of 16 in the national poetry magazine “Rodna Rech”, Bulgaria. She is a Cum Laude graduate at CSULA (2009) and “All American Scholar Award“recipient (2008). She is a life-time member of four distinguished scholar societies. Ms. Alexieva’s poems appeared every Wednesday on” Daheli Live!”  TV show. Ms. Alexieva speaks 8+ languages. Her literary, scholarly and photo-documentaries were highlighted in anthologies, feminist magazines, newspapers, opening ceremonies and numerous open mics. She is widely published in USA, UK, Bulgaria, Russia, Nepal, India, Philippines, Bangladesh, South Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tunisia. Her lectures and poetry writings include, but not limited to ethnic cultures, ethnomusicology, and Japanese Tanka, as well. Most of them relates to women in traditional perspective, gender identity and contemporary feminism. She worked tirelessly with gifted and talented children – in ICAF, NASA, Visa Olympics and more. For her outstanding life-long honorary achievements, Ms. Alexieva’s name was included two times among the most distinguished Earth’s citizens list of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (2003) capsule and Science Laboratory Rover (2011) list, for which she has awarded with honorable certificates, as well. Her poem “My Gypsy Soul” dedicated to Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, was recently selected for “Message in the Bottle" program of NASA's Europa Clipper Mission.