Writing: Poetry

Although I used to write quite a bit in Bulgarian, it has been years since I've done that. Regrettably, I also have little time to devote the writing poetry in English, so the collection has tapered off somewhat during the latter years. I am making it available online (with some of the better poems available separately) along with the brief introductory comments to each poem. I can take a fair amount of criticism, but I am not sure I welcome it.

• English Collections
  • I Sleep with the Corpse of Consciousness (1990-2002)
  • Lyrical Episodes (2001-2003)
  • The Room in 24 Hours (1994, 1999, 2001)
• Bulgarian Collections
  • Evil River (1991-92, 97)
  • 21 Sonnets (1992-93)

Some Selected Poems in English

Here are some of the poems I happen to like better than the rest. Please note that clicking on the title will load the text in another pop-up window (which gets reused, so you need not close it).

• Untitled Love Poem (2001)
• Wedding Night (2001)
• Leaves and Branches (2001)
• A Flight over a Playground (1998)
• The Rain and the Tree (1995)
• The Passage of Time (1994)
• The Room:
  • Afternoon (1994)
  • Evening (1999)
  • Night (2001)
• Euclea:
  • The Chalice (1991)
  • Fragments (1991)
  • Divine Image (1993)
  • Euclea (1994)
• Le Coup de Grâce (1990)
• Morning:
  • A Study in China Ink (1991)
  • Bleak House, White Cloister (1991)
  • O, Sun (1992)
  • Poet's Morn (1992)
  • She (1994)
• Sand:
  • Remembrance (1991)
  • Yellow Pearls (1992)
• Sleepless (1995)
• Confession (1997)
• 24 Exp. (2001)