Haiku by Alexandra Ivoylova
the longest day
colors of the sun
across the facades
children playing
with soap bubbles
ephemeral eternities
ghostly faces
along dark allays
smartphones
an industrial zone
above a billboard
a deserted nest
Café du Parnasse
our tea growing cold
next to a pile of books
the sunset dwindles
in the windows of the cars
traffic-jam
shop windows
among reflected crowds
exquisite mannequins
autumn streets
on bus windows
the remains of summer rain
first snow
freezing in the yard
is the last rose
Valentine’s Day is over
the flower woman in the shop
alone
English translation by Fannie Krispin
Bio
ALEXANDRA IVOYLOVA graduated from the National Academy of Music in Sofia and holds an M.M. degree in piano performance. She specialized in Paris, and studied chamber singing.
Alexandra has recorded two compact discs: “Baroque arias and songs” and “Reflections – poetry and music” and has had individual exhibitions of art and photo haiga. Her publications comprise 10 books and collections of haiku, poems translated into eleven languages, haibun, maxims, essays, fragments, as well as literary, art and music reviews. She is the compiler of the Bulgarian-French bilingual haiku anthology “The town”. In 2022 she received Prix Spécial Europoésie – France, and Honorable Mention at the Third Hoshi no Haiku Star Contest, Japan.
Membership: World Haiku Association, Bulgarian PEN Center, Bulgarian Haiku Union, Elias Kanetti International Society, Union of Bulgarian Journalists, Rencontres Européennes Europoésie. Member of the editorial board of the Bulgarian magazine “Haiku World”.
Photos
Akita International Haiku Network 