Five Poems of Dorin Papa
Five Poems of Dorin Papa
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Below are the 5 poems of Dorin Papa
Dorin POPA
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ANYBODY
so many times I had absurd claims
I thought my soul was a perfect radar
for your steps, your breath
your weeping
with ardour and love we could
finally reach in peace the other’ s skin
if we didn’ t discover with disappointment
that we are the prisoners of our epidermis
and your singing, and your weeping, and your look,
the emotions, the incomparable and your dreams
all of them are mine for ever
tearfully, crying, I hold you hopelessly
I embrace you like I’ ll never embrace you again
you exist in me deeper than in your heart
and shaken, I whisper to you from a distance
- nobody has ever understood
anybody !
MY DEATH - MY LIFE
had things not hit me
with such fury
I might not have seen them
I might have never cared about
them
my sadness - my joy
sometimes I am allowed to see
how evil mingles with good
how from their combination
everything comes to life
my death - my life
I would have never found the way to you
if I hadn’ t wandered about
if so many nights hadn’ t blinded me
if I hadn’ t found comfort in loneliness
sometimes in the middle of the tempest
deep silence overwhelms me
and while I am hit, battered and slashed
I can see in silence
how my death feeds my life
NOWHERE
I am nowhere present
nor absent anywhere
many a time had I the wish
to cease existing,
although I have never
really lived
nearby the stinging nettle is
in imperial bloom
nearby coloured airplanes
are taking off
I have not been sentenced anywhere
but I can find escape nowhere
REVOLVING ON AN UNSUSPECTED SECRET COMMAND
I’ ve always been thriled
by the moment when men lose their little wings,
by the moment when they begin to slowly revolve
around their own lives
with a kind of frenezy
with the same amazement I’ ve always watched
intrigued how my fellow creatures plunge into their lives
with indifference
with indifference and fatigue
with a sweet and sad exhaustion - like a stone
surreptitiously my friends revolve themselves into silence
- some easily, with discrete smiles, as if joking
- some others, resolutely, stubbornly
hasten to shake their flakes off
and in vain do I call out to them, in vain do I shout in despair
and pull them back by their feet …
they have sunk into their lives to their waist, to their ears
they don’ t want, oh, they don’ t want to hear anything but
the nourishing sound
of their revolving around this world, this life, this death
oh, my friends have all disappeared
swallowed by their dull, hungry brown - desperate lives
and I, strange and immature, see how the possible is narrowing
how it turns into a spot, into a trace
into the dim breath of a memory,
and afterwards nobody can remember anything about it
CONFESSION IN DECEMBER
so many times have I asked the other
to take a right view of things
but I haven’ t done so!
All my condemnations
have stayed in front of me for years,
but I couldn’ t follow them
I didn’ t know to understand them
I couldn’ t see them
to the end
never
anything
have I known to expiate to the end!
my youth only elapses,
joy only elapses,
life only elapses,
my guilt remains unchanged
- never, anything have I known to expiate
to the end;
I’ ve always been harshly asking the other
to take a right view of things,
but I haven’ t done so!
and now, when I am no longer expecting anything
my hope
is stronger than ever.
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Dorin POPA, Ph.D.
Professor,
"Al.I.Cuza" University, RO,
Dept. of Journalism & Communication Sciences
Dorin Papa
http://dorinpopa.wordpress.com/
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Friday, June 14, 2013
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2 comments:
those were nicely written poems
@MEcoy
thanks.