Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
Brought to you by Mary K
Originally, I meant to write haiku for Carpe Diem’s prompt of Eclipse. Obviously, I need to write other stuff, too. Here it is:
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Eclipsed by destiny
and the craze
of recent summer,
my shells-and-pebbles necklace
is lying quiet on the beach.
Forgotten, looking junk-like
now.
Just a whiff of hot sand
carried with the
harsh October wind.
© 2013 soul mary
Here are the final haiku I wrote for the September Heights of Haiku 2013
#27 – Gold
Blushing before night
the sunset spills melted gold –
a jewel for free.
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#28 – Pillow
Amidst the clouds we
see our old dream of future
delude us deep in.
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#29 – Mother
Myth of ancient tales
To make some feel worthy.
Truth is only freedom.
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#30 – Crooked
Behold the branches
surviving naked and still.
Arching slowly down.
© 2013 Mariya Koleva
**Carpe Diem #306 – Chrysanthemum Festival**
Disheveled head up
Winking in autumn humour
Eyes and hearts at feast.
**Carpe Diem #307 – Goose**
Flocks straying away
To the far wilderness
Waving high goodbye.
©2013 Mariya Koleva
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_
September Heights #05 Autumn
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Sun burns out farewell
Breezes brush treetops aglow
Rain washes them bare.
© 2012 Mariya Koleva
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 😉
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.
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 (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
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
