#(this is a love poem but the author is overall socialist
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“Parting” (pre-execution note)
To my wife
Sometimes I'll visit in your sleep
as an unexpected and unwanted guest.
Don't leave me outside on the road -
don't bar the doors.
I will come in quietly. Slowly, I will sit down,
and I will gaze into the dark to see you.
Once I've looked at you for long enough -
I will kiss you, and then leave you.
– Nikola Vaptsarov, tr. by @toronea
#poetry#nikola vaptsarov#spilled ink#my heart sang of you#bulgaria#bulgarian literature#bulgarian poetry#poetry blog#poetry in translation#my translation#eastern europe#european literature#socialist poetry#(this is a love poem but the author is overall socialist#he's one of the greatest)#poets on tumblr#writeblr#20th century poetry#20th century literature#40s poetry#keeping the original punctuation again. have decided to do that when i translate#ngl this one was hard because of the nuanced verbs in the original... they just don't carry the same meaning and tragedy like in bulgarian#yall are barely starting to discover non-english poetry and im here to introduce bulgarian poetry!#1942#никола вапцаров#прощално
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