Bad Company ( Translated into French )

Bad Company ( Translated into French )

Dear friends

This is the fifth poem of mine  which has been translated into French by none other than Honourable Athanase Vantchev de Thracy, World President of Poetas del Mundo , undoubtedly one of the greatest poets of contemporary French.

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Bad Company

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Fatigued and exhausted home coming makes me restless

As if I am swallowed whole by the emptiness

Stacked famous ones whirl around, pity me

As termites start digesting me

Spider webs decorating walls

House lizards playing ball

Bed-bugs play hide & seek

Rats sprint on rugs

Mosquitoes sing

Buzzing

flies

Melodious

Cricket’s chirping

Frog’s croaking, all keep me

Awake whole night yet fill my emptiness

With their presence without which my life

Would have been one of emptiness and loneliness

Getting rid of them from the core threaten my existence

Yet I am bent upon driving them out to be with HIM in ONENESS

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En mauvaise compagnie

 Rentrer à la maison fatigué et épuisé me met sur les nerfs

Comme si j’avais été avalé tout entier par le vide.

Des célébrités tournoient autour de moi et me prennent en pitié,

Alors que les termites commencent à me digérer.

Des toiles d'araignées décorent les murs,

Des lézards familiers échangent des balles,

Des punaises de lit jouent  à cache-cache,

Des rats courent sur les tapis,

Des moustiques chantent,

Des mouches bourdonnent,

Des criquets stridulent mélodieusement,

Des grenouilles coassent :

Tout cela me garde éveillé toute la nuit

Et leur présence remplit mon vide.

Sans elle, ma vie n’aurait jamais été

Que vide et solitude.

Les chasser de mon moi intime

Menace mon existence

Et pourtant, je me penche pour les en éloigner

Pour être enfin complètement seul avec moi-même.

Translated by Athanase Vantchev de Thracy

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Born on January 3, 1940, in Haskovo, Bulgaria, the extraordinary polyglot culture studied for seventeen years in some of the most popular universities in Europe, where he gained deep knowledge of world literature and poetry.

Athanase Vantchev de Thracy is the author of 32 collections of poetry (written in classic range and free), where he uses the whole spectrum of prosody: epic, chamber, sonnet, bukoliket, idyll, pastoral, ballads, elegies, rondon, satire, agement, epigramin, etc. epitaph. He has also published a number of monographs and doctoral thesis, The symbolism of light in the poetry of Paul Verlaine's. In Bulgarian, he wrote a study of epicurean Petroni writer, surnamed elegantiaru Petronius Arbiter, the favorite of Emperor Nero, author of the classic novel Satirikoni, and a study in Russian titled Poetics and metaphysics in the work of Dostoyevsky.

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