MIHAIL GRIGOROV

 

 

Small Beach

 

It is as if a storm threw us ashore,

we lay numb with feelings

away from shame and debt,

away from pretentious arts.

On that little beach - steep and stony

with overhanging rocks, deep beneath the sky,

hugging each other, we listened in the dark

the deep sighs of the sea.

 

The Old Boats

 

Our old ships are sinking.

They reached to the bottom of their length of service.

Wooden troughs, whose song is over,

washed up on the autumn beach.

Our old memories sink deep,

waves of noise wash over them.

Until yesterday, thoughts were high,

and today they are a pain for the soul and the mind.

Singers without voices - sing hymns,

but they resemble only a wolf's howl.

A metaphor is a powerless symbol,

and the battles for honor - are pirate battles.

And no one lays bones anymore

before some great immortal verse.

No one can say it simply:

- I lived openly, suffered and created.

Nobody admits his boat has sunk.

Each elevates their ragged flag

and can talk until dawn,

that he is the greatest sailor.

 

Catamaran

 

Two small boats tied together,

which have mast and sail,

and storms they have, they have an ocean,

and both boats are a catamaran,

who flies over the huge waves

on white days, even on black days...

Or amid the glittering ocean

we are one love raft,

overhanging the abyss of love...

And the wind like a love song,

touches our foreheads lightly

and there is no fog in our souls...

The sky is both blue and high,

and in our thoughts - all the directions,

which are known to the world

but they are only possible in love...

For years we wonder if

life won't tear us apart,

to close the circle for us too.

When they pull us ashore

with you we will live righteously and meekly

like two old and lonely boats...

 

MIHAIL GRIGOROV

 

MIHAIL GRIGOROV was born in 1951 in the town of Sredets, Burgas Region, Bulgaria. He completed his higher education at the Technical University - Varna. He started publishing poems in 1972. He is the author of six collections of poems in Bulgarian. In 2023, the American publishing house CaliGirlBooks LLC published his poetry collection "The Blue Flame Poems". His poetry has been translated into Russian, Italian and English. He is the winner of national and international awards for poetry. He lives in Sofia and works as a journalist. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers, the Union of Bulgarian Journalists and the League of Bulgarian Writers in the USA and around the world.