September Heights #13 – Symphony
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Yellow twinkling leaves
Heavy with autumn tiredness
Play the branches bare
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Symphony of fall
Swirling in parks and alleys
The grass listens hushed
© 2012 forestlove/m_
Tag Archives: autumn
Autumnal haiku
September Heights #05 Autumn
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Sun burns out farewell
Breezes brush treetops aglow
Rain washes them bare.
© 2012 Mariya Koleva
Sombre Chapbook is here!
Finally!
So far, it has been launched only on Smashwords. Soon enough, I will release it through other vendors, too. Here it is: Sombre Chapbook by Mariya Koleva.
Don’t be shy 😉
Cover Art ready for the Sombre Chapbook
Hello, and here is an update for the Sombre Chapbook. In case you missed the beginning – here are the details. And now, the news: all poems have been selected and arranged, roughly edited, awating final moderation,
but the main piece of news is that
I HAVE THE COVER ART FOR THE BOOK READY. And here it is:
Copyright © 2011 Emil Penchev
How about that 😉 The artist is currently working on the contents. So, hopefully, it will be out soon.
It was love at first sight… – Leaf Fall
Carry on Tuesday #126: the opening line from Catch 22 by Joseph Heller “It was love at first sight”
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It was love at first sight
Handsome god here resides…
Until the second view revealed reality
Where dream was washed away
By all the dirty cups and ash-trays
By filled-up garbage bag and
That amazing rain outside
With leaf fall whirling fire on
And sweeping all I shun into oblivion.
That was love at first sight!
©2011 Mariya Koleva
Enter October
Enter October (and Robert prompted it on the PA Forum under #152):
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When I see October come
I smell family
Early dusk
Weekend baking
The chill and red outside the window
And coffee steaming warmth inside
When I see October come
My childhood hears my Mom
Making endless fuss
Over overspills of milk, or flour blasts
Around the oven
When I see October come
I get festive, high on Muses,
Over-caffed and over-sugared.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva
NaNoWriMo 2011 – six weeks to go
This year, my participation in NaNoWriMo – the best event that happened to me last year, appears harder to occur. I seriously doubt I’ll be able to catch on as I have plans… not featuring novel writing. For that reason, and out of pure fear for my novelist future, I started planning early. It’s true, my first novel is not completed yet, the plot is not even halfway through and I reached a particular muddle of pages full of explanations, speculations, ruminations, and many more -ations of the mind, empty of dialogue and events. It reached the dull pace of my “normal” style. So, I decided I had best leave it aside to “ripen” (borrowed from Adi, she somehow manages to hit home very often using cute phrases :-)). After all, a half-novel is easier to finish than a new one is to begin. Besides, November coming, I start to get the NaNoWriMo fever and crave for new work to be done. Of course, the autumn mood is nearing me inescapably and that truly is getting to become my favourite time of the year – leaf-covered park lanes, warm sun that everybody loves and cherishes… That autumn mood, I hope, will come to help.
I have a title! Last time, I downloaded the NaNoWriMo winner Certificate and starting to fill it in, I suddenly realised that I have no title. So, there I was, fingertips slightly tapping the keyboard, eager to say something, but what? It took me a week perhaps to come up with the title I finally gave my first NaNo-novel, and I still feel unsure as to whether that has the best ring to it, in terms of MY title. So, this was to be a concern this year, as well. Without putting too much effort in it, I decided to think the matter over as often as possible, so that at the end of the challenge I might have a plausible one. And it came!
A week later, or so, another one came. Now I may have a sub-title, too. Just which one is to be the main title and which will be put after a comma? I haven’t made up my mind yet.
My title is: Lily in the Moonlight
© Mariya Koleva 2011
The Sombre Chapbook
For some time my beloved Emo has been urging me to put together a small chapbook as a way of getting my poems in order and as a first step towards marketing my skills (which he lovingly refers to as “talent”). No need to mention that I agreed right away and since then, I have been thinking of a title for that chapbook.
Finally, early this morning, as I was putting on my sunscreen, it dawned on me! It will be a “Sombre Chapbook”. (Are you able to see the subtle link that emerged in my mind – sun protection and the coming autumn?) I will put it together and “release” it in time for the autumn “fall of the leaf”, so that my poetry-loving friends may enjoy a small, but, I hope, precious addition to their melancholic Sunday afternoon readings.
Further news to be cast shortly (or, to borrow Adi’s expression [which has also been borrowed]): “earlier or later”.
What got you here… – NaPoWriMo 2011, day 1
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What got you here?
I wish I knew.
It was just walking,
which turned to climbing
and then it was a sheer fall,
that may have been a flight
into this wintry cottage
of blooming peaches all around
where gold was falling to the ground
and turning into autumn leaves.
What got me here?
I wish I knew.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva
rules?
A lot of questions have been asked
And from the inside comes the task
To point out rules
To put them forward
Description follows
Descend will fall in
While autumn leaves
White clouds will stay
Red leaves remain
Remain the same