English Poetical Notebook (ePub)

Here Follows the Foreword: Well, there are different approaches in writing of forwards. One is to write it before the book, what isn't quite good because in the creative work one can never know what will become in the end, but one can write something in beforehand and then change it a little after the finishing. The other is to write it after everything is ready, what is as if better; and the one more variant is to miss it at all because people don't like to read long prefaces. I have missed it first because the book was open and I added by something from time to time, then I wrote some brief introduction for the Internet variant, and now, after 25 years of my literary work, I decided in 2015 that it is high time to close it, at least because I have come to new title and new type of verses and, after all, enough is enough. So that the point now isn't in writing of real foreword, but of brief explanation of what kind my verses are. They are, generally said, light verses, or nursery rhymes, but that is what I also like to read, so that, in a way, I have begun to white (not only verses, and not only in English, because this isn't my mother's language, I am Bulgarian) for to be able to read what I couldn't have been able to find. Does this sound good as confession? For, if it isn't, I can put it otherwise, that I have done this /per il mio diletto/, how the Italians say, or for filling of my time with something interesting, what the common people call in uneducated way, for fun. Yet I, being not a common person, can put it in a poetical form, like this: How the glands of the body secrete, So many poets write verses, indeed. And about the genres, then they are quite different and divided roughly in several sections, namely: funny things, sexy things, political things, for children, dedicated things, and others. So that's it, read them, if you like them, or leave them if you don't. My English, naturally, leaves something to be desired, but for light verses it is good enough. Chris Myrski, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 2016