IONUŢ CALOTĂ

IONUŢ CALOTĂ

Silence Ahead

when I fall in love

I write poetry

this book was written so

right on the heart

it is a brave mirror of love

I paid her love with poems

poet I was not when I wrote

but only when I loved

tăcere înainte

(in Romanian)

când mă îndrăgostesc

scriu poezii

cartea asta așa a fost scrisă

direct pe inimă

ea este o oglindă curajoasă a iubirii

am plătit dragostea ei cu poezii

poet nu am fost când am scris

ci doar când am iubit

In A Square Circle

I wake up scared at night

and hesitatingly open the fridge

to see if it is still alive.

It seems to me that it is getting colder,

that I am getting blind when you are turning off my light

I am saved only in the morning

when I am shaving

and I can see instead of my beard,

I grow grass.

Someone has been calling me insistently,

for a few days

to give me explanations,

to sell me shadows.

I go out in the street to look for That Someone

I can't find him

so I  am petrified between the statues of the cold traffic lights

that gossip in all colours.

I know that one day I will write you a poem

without any words

This news is shocking

That Someone is coming out of the TV

And eating my dinner.

într-un cerc pătrat 

 (in Romanian)

mă trezesc speriat noaptea

şi deschid pe pipăite frigiderul

să văd dacă mai trăieşte

mi se pare că e tot mai rece

că orbesc când îmi stingi lumina

sunt salvat abia dimineaţa

când mă bărbieresc

şi văd că în loc de barbă

îmi creşte iarbă

cineva mă sună de câteva zile insistent

ca să-mi dea explicaţii

să-mi vândă umbre

ies în stradă să-l caut

nu-l găsesc aşa că împietresc

între statuile semafoarelor reci

care chicotesc în toate culorile

ştiu că într-o zi o să-ţi scriu o poezie

fără cuvinte

ştirea asta e atât de şocantă

acel cineva iese din televizor

şi îmi mănâncă toată cina

Fabula Rasa

Today I decided to kill my TV

I picked up the remote

like a gun and I fired

I do not know what happens

from some time

news smell bad

it's like an aquarium of rotten words

it's got stripes

the vertical ones, hatching over my face

its screen shows only one image

scorched, mummified

from which shadows widen across the room

on the walls

that are taking over my place in the office

are sitting at the table in my place

are following me in the street

are walking with me to the market

today

I decided to bury my TV

to the common pit

where it was un-born

fabula rasa

(in Romanian)

azi am decis să-mi ucid televizorul

am ridicat telecomanda

ca pe o armă şi am tras

nu ştiu ce se întâmplă

de la o vreme miroase a ştire stricată

parcă-i un acvariu de cuvinte putrede

i-au apărut dungi verticale

ce mi se haşurează pe faţă

ecranul lui arată doar o singură imagine

scorojită mumificată

din care se lăţesc umbre în toată camera

pe toţi pereţii

îmi ocupă locul de la birou

se aşază în locul meu la masă

mă urmăreşte pe stradă

merge cu mine la piaţă

azi m-am hotărât

mă voi duce să-mi îngrop televizorul

la groapa comună

acolo unde s-a nenăscut

în direct

IONUŢ CALOTĂ

IONUŢ CALOTĂ: Born in Bucharest, Romania. Co-founder in 2014 of the Emergency Literary Cenacle from Bucharest, co-organizer of events like: THE NATIONAL POETRY CHAMPIONSHIP, THE GALA OF LOVE POETRY, THE BOOK FAIR – BOOK-TIK, THE NEW YEAR OF THE POETS, THE NATIONAL TOURNAMENT ``COLLECTION POEMS``, the campaign ``Adopt a book!``, poetry camps, literary contests, book launches and other literary-musical evenings. From 2019 he launches the literary magazine ``Poetry Monitor`` which he coordinates as a director. He published poems in his personal debut volume ``HOW TO SURVIVE IN LOVE``, Art Creativ Publishing House, 2017 (I edition), 2018 (second edition), (he obtained the DEBUT prize at the National Festival ``Virgil Carianopol``, the DEBUT prize at the National volume contest ``Poetry – Mirror of the soul``, the prize for the volume at the XXX-rd edition of the National Literature Contest ``Eminescu at Oravita`` and the DEBUT prize of the Art Creativ Publishing House), he published poems  in his volume `` Proclamation for the globalization of poetry, Eurostampa Publishing House, 2018 (unique book with translations in 14 languages), in the volume ``HOW I SAVED THE WORLD``, Sitech Publishing House, 2018 (it includes other literary genres), in the volume with two authors ``THE DAY WHEN I RESEMBLED WITH YOU``, Art Creativ Publishing House, 2014, together with the poet Daniela Toma (fourth place in the Bookaholic top) and he also published poems in the next collective volumes: Poemia, 2015, Preludes for butterflies, 2015, The time of precious stones, 2016, Besides the light, 2017, The diary of a wingsfield, 2017, The \state of human being – Substrates, 2018, Poems on a leaf, anthology of Japanese poetry, 2018, The most beautiful poems of love, 2018, Charme, selection of contemporary short prose, 2018; Carousel with young symphonies, 2018, Identities, anthology of Romanian aphorism, 2019, at Art Creativ Publishing House, also he published in the anniversary Anthology 5 years, of the Union of European Writers USE, 2017, ``The Autumn at Apollon``, Ro.cart Publishing House, 2017, ``Souls to the sun``, dedicated  to the Year Ovidiu, Art Book Publishing House, 2018, ``Poets in the arena``, Betta Publishing House, 2018, the Almanac ``Literary Syntax``, Eurostampa Publishing House, 2018, anniversary volume ``Oltart – the word that unites, Hoffman Publishing House, 2018, the international anthology ``Nature``, in English, Amadora Rui M.Publishing (Portugal), 2018 and in the Anthology Poetic Schenk Cenacle, Dionysos Publishing House (Germany), 2018.