Published May 15th, 2025
Shakespeare's Pen: Europe Contest – First Place
by Ana-Mariya Boykova Simeonova
The sensation is greedy towards me –
It leads me down a bright path
with eight shades of yellow.
White is unseen –
it's hidden behind the frame of an old tapestry.
The sensation is in a dark frame,
I seek an explanation, a meaning.
It is white.
The feeling is summer-like, it has a flame,
but remains sealed hermetically,
for there is mysticism.
There, always,
women will harvest wheat
and they will look down,
bent toward the earth...
About the Poet
Ana-Mariya Boykova Simeonova resides in Radomir, Pernik, Bulgaria.
Read the poet's biography on Ana-Mariya Boykova Simeonova's Artist Page.
This poem is the winner of the first Shakespeare's Pen: Europe Contest, hosted by Edinburgh Poetry Magazine.
Read all the winning poems in Legends of Shakespeare's Pen 2025.
Previously published in Edinburgh Poetry Magazine:
The Ostrich and the Dipper
by Rosemary Hector
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