I swear by Rumi

I swear, since seeing Your face,

the whole world is fraud and fantasy

The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf

or blossom. The distracted birds

can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.

 

A house of love with no limits,

a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,

a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.

                                                             

Show me your right hand

and that secret smile

you hide;

Show me the left hand 

and those small lies 

you dare to have;

show me night 

and that moon behind the clouds,

show me the whole world and my self

cause from here where I stand I 

can only see your eyes. 

Looking for my babe

Big are my shoes for these big streets

where I can't find a fountain

I can't find a fish.

Big is my umbrella for this big rain 

for this small body 

hidden in your shoes.

Looking for my babe

I cross the bridge of fire

looking for my babe

I found my self lost. 

Just before

Just before today it was yesterday

just before me was someone else

just before I open my mouth 

I lost my initial thoughts 

Woman in Love

Know nothing

fear nothing 

expect nothing-

Woman in Love

Closer

Come closer to the fire

to feel the distance between the things.

Sit in the fire 

to feel the closeness 

with yourself. 

Become the fire

to forget both.

Kraj

Pretending that you are sleeping

you try to drag the time in your dream

and hide me there with you.

Sad I sit next to the window

which I want to open 

and see that it is Sunday

but outside- cold and unknown people.

 You sleep pretending 

that you are not noticing me

when I wake up to leave

dreamless,  speechless, confused...

Pretending that you don't know

that I'm not coming back

your look follows me till the end...

Is this end...? 

Folder-Empty

A secret from 

an empty heart I've
pulled out for you.
Secret like a curse
for for all mornings
that you've cherished
without me.
Whispering to your ears
this secret will wake you up
every new morning from now.
A cursed secret- not to be able to hear it
not to be able to remember it
just to feel it all the time...
like a small stone in your shoes,
from which you want to get rid of;
like a mosquito which comes to your ear
but every time you try to catch it he is not there anymore;
like a Trojan virus in your files...
FINAL WARNING!
... I am now sending my secret
to wake you up 

when I can not ....

Blue

Calm or cold?
pure or freezing ?
like the high sky free or like the deepest waters lonely ?
Which blue did you used for painting the walls of your heart?
Is it me or is it you
color blind?

Night over Tokyo

Night is coming over Tokyo.
Shifting east for west one bird crossed the sky.
Night is coming over Tokyo.
The distance chimney
sends black smoke to my white shirt.
Night is coming over Tokyo.
Crossing the bridge one lady
drop a tear under her umbrella.
Night is coming over Tokyo...I think.
All the lights are on and I can't be sure
if the night is here or it is night all the time.
However, I heard on the news...night is coming over Tokyo.

Na vrvot ti

Skalila mnogu
na vrvot ti- nasmean i tivok.
Sonuvav son za pesna nebeska
vo nea sega te prepoznavam.
Ke ceka rajot - reche i izlaza,
koga jas ne te cuvav vo sonishta
mi te zema na izmama.
Svitkana breza
na zemja potprena
ceka dozd.
Ceka buri i uragani.
Se da se izbrishe
nov svet da se sozdade.
Neboto e tivko. Tazen e vozduhot. Sonceto od sram denes ne izgreva.
Nevesta vo belo trcha po polinja. Sama.

Even the sky knows

Overlapping shadows on
unknown land
draws a circle.
All the trees and even the sky knows
why the Sun
made a mistake making
two shadows from one figure.
All the clouds and even the Sky knows
and you are still asking me.
- Why?

Ending

Here I'm ending
close to you
and everything seems
as at the beginning.

Calm and New.

Centuries are passing by me

Stavena vo tegla, konzervirana, zatvorena, pritisnata do bolka- Bolka.
Boli so rezervi I bezrezervno gi razoruzuva site moi vojnici sto gi branat zidovite na osamenosta.
Kade ostanuva vremeto koe go potroshiv. Tegli –polni so vreme, ispolneto I prazno, moe vreme bez tebe vo nego. Sonuvam deka baknuvam…kogo li? Delovi od tebe I hibridi cudni na luge poznati I nepoznati. Krvni vrski bezvrska povrzani so tebe. Na kamenot na ludosta stojam . Me bolis, mnogu me bolis. Site teorii I nauki za lesno lebdenje I crtanje krug vo svojata senka se nezaokruzeni bez tebe vo niv. Smisla razdelena na dve-besmislenost. Kade li me baras se prasuvam? Dali mozebi vo tugi oci me prepoznavas, se plasam da pomislam…Si prestanal da me sonuvas-sonuvam….I kraj nema ova vrtenje vo krug. Ti pak izviras od tamu od kaj sto te gonam I doagas vo noki koga nema mesto za tret. Kako da se plasis da me izgubis, a ne si me ni nasol. Zosto li ti treba tolku mnogu vreme… Vekovi pominaa pokraj mene samo vo eden zivot. Vekovi osudeni na vetrishta I praznina. Prazninata ponekogas me polni I prestanuvam da se sekavam na tebe. I togas doagaat novi vetrishta koi podmolno te butkaat pod vratata na mojata dusha. Kako severen veter vleguvash I se provlekuvas vo koskite i podlaboko od toa. Laden e vetrot sto si odi….laden e toj vetar, znam... no za mojata studena soba e potopol od ognen zdiv.
Te nosam niz sonishta kako prokletstvo.
Bolka si ti.
Bolka sto me leci I poseduva.
Bolka si ti.
Bolka sto doaga kako podarok, si odi kako kazna.
Ostani tamu kade sto me baras…ili jas da ostanam tamu kade sto me naogas.
Ke te zaklucam vecerva vo sonot mi, ke te vrzam, ke te magepsam, ke te zatvoram , ke te opijam, ke te uspijam….Tuka ke se budis , tuka ke zaspivas.
Tuka ke me baras, tuka ke me naogas.Tuka ke te baram, tuka ke te naogam.

The World

Stay

Pulling the curtain
the afternoon light spread all over your skin.
I'm jealous already.
I buried all my face into your hair getting drunk from your smell.
I keep it in me. I forgot to exale...
Night is my enemy,
dream is my hope
morrning is my punishment.
Stay.
I know somebody is waiting you for dinner.

Thinking

To think that I am not going
to think of you anymore
is still thinking of you.
Let me then try not to think
that I am not going to think of you.

Takuan

The very best-Radovan Pavlovski

Orpheus looking back

He turned to Her and She revived.
She's fallen asleep over my song.
Did she want me to stay in love
and unborn? Prophecies
came from light like the combined voice of cockerels.
Was it the snowdrop nurtured by the snows,
as I within myself counted the waves?
I searched for you.
I roamed. I roamed.

No
There is no death.
Heaven is innocent.

(Radovan Pavlovski)

World in Color

I took some from there and I add here-
some color to my World
where once you walked colorless.

4 Ur eyes only

It's yellow almost everywhere
only my leafs are turning green.
It's grey all around me
while I'm turning pink.
Stay today with me
and watch how
I'm cheating the seasons.
Lay your eyes today on me
I'm blooming for them only.

From here...

Where do we go from here?
Here is calm and dark
here I know you and you know me
Here we slept forever.
Why do we must to go ?

Silence

Across the street -rain
behind the walls- laugh
in front of me- stolen silence

Closer

Hold me closer
hold me tighter
hold me gentle
hold me

Far

Far. They've took you far away. From your birth soil, from your center of the World.
You only keep the water in your body
the same water in which you was baptized
the same water which is now and then
your mirror.
Far. They've took you far away.
To forget. To regret.

Give

You bend your head down
shy or sleepy,
maybe lonely.
She offered you a hand.
Still you count ants in the sand.
It takes seconds to
Give.
Give, I know you have.

Imitation of the Sun

Memories of You

Regrets

Words

Smell

Time

Steps

Too small to bring you closer
to big to make it happen
few steps between
me and the sea

3 Last People on Earth

Night

In the nights I know you are here.
Covered with my whispers
laid on my hair.
In the mornings
I don't know how do you hide,
covered with fog
laid on my eye lashes.

Krug

Trgnati na strana kopnezi
vrateni bez motiv spomeni
tuka se -
zidovi prozirni

Chorapi

Game

Prevrtena korica na kniga
crveni corap izguben vo parkot
travestiti baraat zapalka

Shir Hashirim - Chapter 8

I will arise now and go about the city, in the market places and in the city squares. I will seek him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but I did not find him.
The watchmen who patrol the city found me: "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
I had just passed them by, when I found him whom my soul loves; I held him and would not let him go, until I brought him into my mother's house and into the chamber of her who had conceived me. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.
Place me like a seal on your heart, liked a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death, zeal is as strong as the grave; its coals are coals of fire of a great flame!

Homeless

A night sky
lights up the street signs.
Where are the homeless dogs
sleeping tonight?

Matsuo Basho (3)

Japanese:
行春や
鳥啼魚の
目は泪
Romanization:
Yuku haru ya
tori naki uo no
me wa namida

English:

Spring departing—
the birds cry out
and the eyes of the fish
are full of tears

Kyoto (Matsuo Basho)

京にても / 京なつかしや / 時鳥
Kyou nitemo / kyou natsukashi ya / hototogisu

Even in Kyôto
hearing the cuckoo's cry
I long for Kyôto

Haiga/ Matsuo Basho / (my favorites)

旅に病で / 夢は枯野を / かけ廻る
tabi ni yande / yume wa kareno wo / kake-meguru


Sick on a journey,
my dreams wander
the withered fields

Promise

The autumn's rain
the summer's sun
the winter's cold
the spring's green
-haven't kept the promise.
New season is coming,
how should I call it?

Bitter

Bitter...
smell of a iron after rain;
morning coffee from machine;
after-recollection of a lost memories...

Nebo

I denes neboto dalecno se cini
macki se brkaat pod balkonot mi
Pogreshna vremenska prognoza

Prozorci

Being way to far to open the window
you used the door
-the one you never went through.

I can't remember-
the sound of the rain
not even the fear of winter
Just the scent of your hair

White

Na crno nebo
izbrishani zvezdi ostavile traga
Dojde oblak da ja pokrie

On a black sky
deleted starts left trails
A cloud came to cover it up

Waiting

In a cloudy day
the Water is waiting
for her lover.

I'd like to watch it!

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