NADIA-CELLA POP

NADIA-CELLA POP

MY DOME

In my dome

Question marks stand

As stormtroopers ready

For marauders like you.

In fact,they defend me

From the answers

I wish to find

Because they are uttered

As a common and stupid

Crash

Wherein only

The end wins.

After that

There is a question

Still to come:

”Why?”

 (TRANSLATED BY DRAGOŞ BARBU)

THERE’LL COME A TIME

There’ll come a time

When,watching the ashes of our own memories

We will show just a sympathetic smile

To all our vagaries and failures.

We will listen the symphony of sincerity,

The flight of all the days and nights

And these will be the same like our expectations.

With a withered smile on our faces

We will browse imaginary letters,

Sliding down to the arcanum’s world

Of burning embers and ice,

Of former and future victories.

There’ll come a time

When the words will die,

Replaced by our

Guilt-ridden delight

To return the same,

On the trail of our years.

 (TRANSLATED BY DRAGOŞ BARBU)

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The silent moai

Take a sharp look to the sea.

They are guardians...

The ballad still is

The people’s neverending

spring of old wisdom

The transparent wings

and the body of an elf

mean a dragonfly

Right near the dam

all the shoals are coming in.

It’s a gathering...

Just a ray of hope

in a moment of nothing

is like pure gold

You seek a treasure

deep inside the hidden place

but it is so close

Strange phenomenon

up in the sky of this night.

Some guests are coming...

In the summer rain

the little kids inside us

rise to a new life

The night is falling.

In the pocket of the day

god Ra is sleeping

The smart vixen knows

how to avoid the shotguns

that kill only crows

On the old ramparts

where the ants are on duty

just the rough law rules

Today,the old mill

stays empty up on the hill

relict of the past

 (TRANSLATED BY DRAGOŞ BARBU)

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