Long Bulgaria Poems

Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
 
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...

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My most popular poems on the Internet (III)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti

Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...

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Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call me a foe, an antagonist, or a rival,
Don’t roll up...

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absolutely nothing stops the pipeline.

 

it penetrates all ways of life

all borders, all villages & towns---

the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare stand in the way

of its progress---

with black gold funneling back...

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Wombles In Space
(Split Into two parts because I suddenly got all Limericky )

Part One

The Wombles are not worldly wise
They look to the ground not the skies
They got on a train, which is hard to explain
Cos...

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spawned in the summer of 1853
these sliced succulent deep fried wonders 
resulted from the demands of a complaining customer
whose bullshit led our man, a one, 
mr. george crum
to do his best to satisfy the putz...

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2011, Yambol








A poem for My Beloved
1.He is like a bunch of  myrrh,
He is gilding my fingers
With fragrance.
He is weaving into between
My breasts, He is cloaking on
My pearl buttons in sunrise redden
Like a droplets of...

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A metaphorical allegory
Real life-or a war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to...

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A metaphorical allegory
A real life war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to...

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In Bulgaria, the Nestinari touched me when I was a child
high above the arm to hold, something new and something old.
She said, "Your feet were meant to walk the fire."
A plain proposition I did not...

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This is a very special day in Bulgaria, my friends. Here - 
http://www.balkanfolk.com/news.php?id=23 - you can read more on it.

marigolds

marigolds 
San Clemente*

and the sun that is
opening
we will lose ourselves
before they find us
in the eternal searching
for...

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In the southern mountains of Bulgaria  
A gruesome discovery had been made                      ...

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it’s a time of  hunger
and of plague
and of starling 
the grasshoppers ate up the wheat
the water has another color
can’t be drunk
the children go to someone else’s doors
knock
but they do not answer them
and speak there
behind...

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Poets logged in
From all across the land
Just to share their writing skills
To every woman and every man

From the United States is Matt
And from India Auro too
From Bangladesh is Ashek
All showing what they can do

Thomas from...

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LORD, this morning, thank you. This SONnet will please, tease, release:
I greet thee, having access to Your throne by Jesus
And His sacrifice on Calvary: We pray against the Virus
With a sunshiny name, an aura of...

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Bulgarian Kukeri honors ancestral ways at annual feasts
Descendants don wooden masks and faces of bird or beasts
Filled with metaphoric meaning, meant to inspire fertility
Also purposely pointing out a young man’s oncoming virility.

There are many reasons...

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The town of Lovech (Bulgaria), there was a concentration camp called sarcastically "Sunny
Beach". There are imprisoned without trial of people with democratic beliefs. The camp was
closed by the then communist regime, because
violations of law, heavy...

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Don’t wake him up yet! Shansi said with a snicker.
Orinoco needs his sleep, for his soft-hearted ticker!
So Great Uncle Bulgaria gave Orinoco fifteen minutes more.
But then you have to leave for school, he said. Right...

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The Rozhen Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Bulgarian: 
???????? ???????? "????????? ???????????", Rozhenski manastir 
"Rozhdestvo Bogorodichno") is the biggest monastery in the Pirin Mountains in 
southwestern Bulgaria. It is one of...

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The data is coming.' From the past three years
Its bright and cheerful, dispelling many fears
Much false info, falls by the way.' Reality in this
Land has plenty to say.' They are free of covid
Less than 19...

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Although East Germany is no longer around,
there are several other Eastern European countries to be found.
Some in the West consider us a competitor to NATO.
Only about our daily business we will go.
There is Poland, the...

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