Poetry: Minko Tanev

Minko Tanev

HEAVENLY ARGO REFLECTION

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words" - Edgar Allen Poe

Breeze from Colchis 

brings golden tinges 

from mythical seas 

through the centuries.

Silhouettes of rowers 

in a united rhythm 

with the song of the waves.

Thracian goddess 

glorifies the sun 

over the breakwater.

The coastline 

recreates heroes.

***

MORNING LIMITS

A splashing light calls me

over a gushing resin and herbs

and I fly above the abyss for a moment 

with the glittering peaks.

From everywhere water is ringing 

and whirlwind brooks are exploding,

and a breath of wild freedom 

throws our hearts steeply.

Nettles, blackberries and elderberries 

engulf the rural rivulet

and some frog agile is crossing 

the infinity of the pool.

But my impulse will behold

on the highest octave 

how the cloud embodies 

the sorrow on the White Sea.

***

LOST AND REDISCOVERED

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation" - Robert Frost

We were within a hand distance 

in the temple of dreams.

I could feel vibrations between us,

allegories of an unknown alphabet. 

Your smile was rising through me 

to the universe.

I didn't passed 

the imaginary boundary of closeness.

For a long time, we were losing ourselves 

in the translation of emotions - 

centuries and epochs have been passed.

And then I discovered you 

for for our new read.

I recognized you after many reincarnations.

There were no secrets for me 

in the symbols of poetry

after I met multilingual masterpieces,

illuminated by God's providence.

***

AIR KISS

She passed for a moment in my sight. 

Mirage almost. Spectacular.

And there is no way to reverberate

with ethereal steps of a goddess.

And all the strings in me sparkle

in harmony with the infinite -

with words to sculpt her

above earthly life and death.

The heaven will not stop me

in front of the glittering muse of poetry -

and the greatest Creator

kisses the air after her.

***

SUPERIORITY

I entered intimately in the circle 

of birth and death -

by the unconscious will

to providence over the flesh.

And I instinctively survive

in the clock soul -

its monstrous making

makes me destroy it.

The wave came angrily,

it scattered in my eyes.

And the trigger caresses the finger

over our fluttering bodies.

*

Maritza's coasts,

settlements over the water are mine.

River amethysts mix me

in kaleidoscopes with stars.

I drink through reeds

whirlwinds of my birth.

***

LIGHT IMPULSES

My movement predicts 

the outlines of someone else,

but all the primary sensations 

bring back me invariably here.

I fly over the wheat fields, 

embracing the royal classes 

an illusion splendid 

between desperate questions.

And the light seems to breathe 

in a bacchanalia of forms -

and I'm a green euphoria 

on the previous ruins.

The illuminate matter 

disperses me in the infinity

and the tip of the senses

touches the whole universe.

***

Minko Tanev, Sofia, Bulgaria

Lecturer of Bulgarian language for foreign students - Medical University, Plovdiv. Author of 6 books of poetry, published in Bulgaria. Co-author of a bilingual haiku book, published in India. Published in anthologies and editions: Japan, Philippines, India, China, Vietnam, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Poland, Germany, France, England, USA, Nigeria, South Africa. In the anthology of the world's best poets, 2019, Temirqazyq, Union of Writers of World Nations, included in “Songs of Peace” - World's Biggest Poetry Anthology, 2020, Atunis Galaxy Anthology - 2021 - anthology of contemporary world poetry, "The first, second and third anthology of world gogyoshi", in anthologies "World Haiku". With award from The First "World Newspaper Poetry TV Competition", 2020, China.

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Setu, January 2021