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Gabriela PACHIA

Dilatorily   The dark-green-slate-blue would serenely melodise, though, without a license, can’t ever beget iridescent Paradise. The ivy strains itself… Theoretically, it won’t hurt ! Like most strangling spirals – a heavy-climbing spurt –, it looks with a jaundiced eye, sticks another coiling leaf-placard… “Upon my word ! This airheaded tree has got some pure […]

Gheorghe PITUŢ

The Wise Man   The wise man never sleeps at night and never sings during the day. When the Sun rises he blesses the church towers and the people who survived from their slumber. So enigmatically does he slip by his fellow beings that he can rarely be witnessed. Whenever people seek an answer he […]

Cezar BALTAG

A Sorrow That Has Slipped My Mind   I dreamt screaming waves, snakes rising their heads as though they wanted to guess all at once the way the earth somersaults among the stars   Herds of woods neighing   At the hills on the twilight threshold. Brambles beseeching in a never-spoken-before language here on earth […]

Marin SORESCU

I Blindfolded…   I blindfolded the trees With a green scarf And asked the trees to catch me. And the trees caught me forthwith With an outburst of laughing leaves.   I blindfolded the birds With a scarf of clouds And asked the birds to catch me.   And the birds caught me With their […]

Grigore VIERU

Cosy Fog   Where are the leaves and buds nourished by the blood running through our love’s floods ?! Where is the blood nourished by the green studs running through our youthful moulds ?!   And where are the rivers’ riddles purified by our souls’ needles ?! And where might our souls sipple pellucid from […]

Anghel DUMBRĂVEANU

Rhetoric and the Shadow of Snowfall   Rhetoric is the science of counting the iguanas in the field of the snow when there comes a maiden who has not learned the genuine difference between the bite of a butterfly fresh after the famous summer courses and the light she willingly bites from while sweetly fainting […]

Nichita STĂNESCU

Evocation   She was as beauteous as the shadow of an idea, – her back skin to a baby’s smell was so anear, the smell of newly cracked stone the smell of screams in some language long forlorn.   Just like the breath, no weight did she possess. While laughing and weeping with large tears […]

Petre STOICA

My Dear Colleague We find ourselves during the Trojan War most respected young lady I am exceedingly audacious I make declarations of love to you I am not diffident I perform loops I encounter a thousand and one nights I take the liberty of being the equal of my neighbourhood friend laurel leaves one for […]

Constantin NISIPEANU

The Dust on My Thoughts   By the cathedral of your smile I’ve planted fruit trees and vine. At daybreak, when the sun still brushes the dust off the trees, as well as off my thoughts, without your being aware that we are floating on summer’s wave of fragrance, you have snatched a cloud from […]

Traian ŞTEF

POETUL AŞTEPTÂND ÎNGERUL / LE POÈTE DANS L’ ATTENTE DE L’ ANGE (Didascaliile, 2007, p. 64)   J’ aime beaucoup l’ image d’ un poète Qui lève son menton de ses feuilles froissées Sur la table, parmi des femmes fantasmatiques, Pendant une nuit d’ ivresse On dirait qu’ il attend son ange Qui bat des ailes […]