Hello everybody and welcome to our poetry rubric!
In this weekly column we will be posting poems composed by students or teachers or anyone who wants to share a poem with our readers. 😊
You can send it to the ELS Newspaper’s email address:
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We will be waiting for your poems. The selected ones will be published upon your consent.
Here are the first three selections of poems, written by:
Siyana Zhelezarova (VIIIb), 1st-place winner – ELS poetry contest on Love
Kalina Yordanova (XIv), 2nd-place winner – ELS poetry contest on Love
Hristina Dimitrova (IXe), 3rd-place winner – ELS poetry contest on Love
SWEET ANGEL
(by Siyana Zhelezarova, VIII b class, 2021)
Every single touch of yours
drives me crazy for you.
Every single word of yours
has me believing you.
Assure me with your eyes,
say you’re there for me.
A love that never dies,
a strong bond, a pure glee.
Save me with your kiss,
show you’re needing me.
Feelings hard to miss,
because you’re here with me.
And I don’t feel alone,
not even a bit.
To soften it from a stone,
you changed my heart, bit by bit.
You give me wings to fly,
looking proudly up at me.
I go high up in the sky,
you let me be, you set me free.
I hold your hand, bring you up,
kiss your scars, hold you close,
catch your face, “Hey, look up!”
I point above while hard wind blows.
“We’re here, angel!” I give you a shout,
“Show what you’re about, show your true self!”
Because, without a doubt,
you’re a sweet angel yourself.
* * *
DILEMMA
(by Kalina Ivanova Yordanova, IX v class, 2021)
Love is a Liar.
Love is a Fool,
Fulfilled with desire.
If only I knew it
how easily burns!
And erring so slow
you turn to see nothing
but glow…
Asking for help
won’t let you survive.
Look in yourself.
The answer – aligned.
* * *
YOUR NAME
(by Hristina Rosenova Dimitrova, IX e class, 2021)
On a breezy day last summer,
you passed by me
with your bike,
going God-knows-where.
We waved at each other and you
continued your way.
I remember laughing
with friends – the ones that stay.
Later that day,
I caught myself thinking:
how I want someone who’ll never leave me this way.
Someone like you.
A boy who had such a good heart
that he’d never break mine.
If only I knew…
I came home that day
just to grab the mobile
and text you.
It was so hard
to express my feelings…
I’ve never been treated right
and would not risk it
all over again.
Maybe I shouldn‘t have
done it.
You told me you felt
the same way
about me
and it was so nice
to finally sense I was LIVING!
Not just existing …
You were my reason
to have faith in the future,
until you became
a part of my past.
I still remember
your fluffy hair,
brown eyes,
goofy smile…
Oh, and that laugh!
The laugh that gave a home
to the butterflies in my stomach.
You were not that tall or strong,
but you made me feel fragile.
When I was with you, nothing was wrong.
But you did not care enough to stay.
I guess you didn’t love me, anyway.
The saddest thing is
I felt ready
to make you a permanent part of my life…
You decided to leave.
Without any closure
or a reason why.
My parents would say
people come and go.
We did not get the time
to experience it at all!
I wanted you to be my first kiss.
I wanted to hold you
and take care of you
whenever you needed.
You were the boy from the songs
that I listened to
and the books
that I read.
The only difference:
they had a good ending.
So where was ours?
Such a shame, right?
That you’ll never know
how much I talked
to my friends about you.
How much I cried
and how much I wished
it would have worked out
for us.
That you’ll never know
I wrote that poem
for you.
Because, when they ask me to describe
what love feels like,
the only thing that comes to my mind
is your name.