TOTH ARPÁD

 

TOTH ARPÁD

Tired, But Charmed By The Spell Of The Forrest

 

Tired, I sit down on a log deep in the woods

 

Making room for a thought to sit alongside with me

 

The hardships of life began to break apart

 

Not used to climb the mountain's heart

 

They crash powerless down at my feet!

 

In the foliage that goes around a few little flowers

 

The wind is drawing the clouds' projection on the earth.

 

The sweet moments were frozen in the arms of the forest,

 

I know no more... is it just me, the thousands of stars or nature's breath.

 

 

For a moment everything vanishes in the old wind

 

And the murmur of the spring washes away any difference.

 

I get up, resuming the holy struggle for existence.

 

Twisting, the path shows its plan in reverence!

 

 

When The Virgin Loves Us

  

Let us forgive our every mistake

 

And let us forgive in general,

 

Knowing that God forgives us as well,

 

Whenever we do something immoral!

 

 

When the Virgin is close to us,

 

All the angels circle

 

And from their highest spheres

 

Above our heads they rest!

 

 

May the heavenly bliss

 

Start flowing over us

 

And all the angelic crowd

 

Bury the viruses in mud!

 

Let's open our hearts wide

 

To any welcome grace,

 

Our smile let us not hide,

 

Neither the due respect!

 

He or she who loves the Virgin

 

Fully protected will be by Her,

 

God is guiding them

 

And will remove the full torment!

 

With Her distinguished kindness…

 

The Blessed Virgin Mary,

 

In the world she will make justice…

 

Her sweet look delights us!

 

And from all the angels

 

The kind man comes forward

 

Because a holly look may

 

Make our hearts beat outward!

 

You work the land with much torment

 

And stand on it when you're alive,

 

Also remember the Divine:

 

Getting out of yourself… you are gone!

 

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY CARMEN MORARU

 

TOTH ARPÁD

 

TOTH ARPÁD: From Covasna, Romania. He was born on June 12th 1962, in Săcele City, Brașov County, where he lived until April 1975. He graduated the Forestry High School in Gurghiu City, Mureș County, in 1981. He has a degree in forestry and legal sciences. The author received the Naji Naaman Foundation's Merit Award for the book “Queen of the Nature and Her Children” in 2017. He is a member of the Brașov Branch of the League of Romanian Writers. He has 26 editorial appearances and participated as a co-author in 27 literary anthologies.