IULIA GHERGHEI

IULIA GHERGHEI

SYNDROMES OF LONELINESS

The sickness took his mind but not entirely

Every morning he screams in gibberish tongues at his window

For hours, the whole neighborhood is captive to his litany

And then, you hear the sanity talk

I am hungry

Seconds later, silence rules again the street

Someone listened, someone heard him

Someone came to our rescue

Fed him

Liberated us from our guilt

And when the evening comes...

Oh, God I trained my ears not to hear him...

Same feeling as when you are in church and the priest is bubbling his spells and you only understand Amen

SHIP OF FOOLS

Come, come on my ship

And they went

Bewitched by his sardonic smile

Come, I offer you heavens, wealth and the sweetest lies

And they went dancing and singing, praising their fortune

A black fever crossing their blood streams

Come see my gold oasis, lavish under the virgins' shadows

And they went biting each others flesh, stepping on each others corpses, feasting with the blood of their neighbours

Come drink with me the poisons

Life will have no end and no beginning

And they went already deaf and blind

Skeletons walking

Living dead

Driven only by fury and infinite greed

Fools of all nations

The soil for new species

The old new dinosaurs

DO YOU HEAR THEIR COUGH

How poisoning the greed is...

How maddening the thirst for power...

Obscuring any sign of empathy in your soul

What is wrong chemically speaking in your brain?!

If you extinct your own people, how will you nourish your hunger for ruling?

No cities left, no population

Just ruins and corpses

In the chemical hell even the angels have choked

Do you hear their cough?

IULIA GHERGHEI

IULIA GHERGHEI, Romanian poet of English expression, graduated from University of Bucharest as information technology expert, has published her first poetry collection in 2012 at blurb, com. Prisoners of Cinema Paradiso was edited by Brian Wrixon. She mainly publish her poems on Facebook. She was also published in many e-zines or poetry sites like Destiny Poets, where she received the honour to be chosen Poet of the year in 2012. In 2015 she won the poetry contest of the Blackwater Poetry group on Facebook. She was part of many anthologies, one of them being The Significant Anthology , anthology edited by Koshy A V and Reena Prasad.