IULIA GHERGHEI

 

IULIA GHERGHEI

 

Under My Armpit

 

How do you even start a poem?

 

What is that thing that stirs it out from you

 

Or maybe is an accumulation of facts

 

 

A homeless man pissing on a pole in broad daylight

 

The trash not lifted for days left to the winds to play with it

 

The smell of a fake winter in a losers's town

 

 

And all these are rolled up in a cigar that muses share voluptuously

 

Their  smoke coats me entirely so

 

Under their foggy glares

 

I walk these streets carrying a poem under my armpit

 

And a devilish curb on my lips

 

 

 

Another Kind Of Spring

 

Death in your vision was so appetising

 

So voluptuous

 

Oh, yeah, yeah.... With her charms inciting us to sin, to commit savage debauchery

 

Oh, yes, yes, poet,

 

You deceive yourself and us too with nymphs wearing their scythe as a laurels crown

 

Their thighs billowing sweet angles and

 

the sugar glazed nipples anxiously waiting for your slave kisses

 

Poet, what are you describing here it is not death

 

Only another kind of spring

 

Oh, yeah, yeah... The poet smiled guilty

 

 

 

Through The Glass

 

The seasons lost their identity

 

Through the glass you can't say if its summer or winter

 

The sidewalks look the same

 

Only the barren trees wearing a silent prayer on their branches

 

Might give you a hint

 

But from my armchair I can't see the trees

 

Only this sharp blue sky

 

Merciless as a torrid summer sky

 

Day after day, nameless days sewing themselves in nameless seasons

 

frozen under a cruel  sky

 

And me, sunk deep in my armchair

 

Embalmed in it

 

Ready to turn to dust at the first encounter with the sun, this jellybean sun

 

In the background some neighbor is hammering a hole

 

A hole into the next unparalleled universe

 

The only result is a crack on my window

 

Through which the winter, this jellyfish kind of a winter

 

bites me back to reality

 

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 publishes 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. In 2020 some of her poems were translated in Turkish by Baki Yiğit in several Turkish literary magazines. Also starting this year she has her own author page on MadSwirl.com site.