Afecțiunea arborilor

I am just a cub,

Alone in a garden of flowers.

And as much as I delight in being seen by others,

Ilong, with all my being, to finally know myself.

As the world pauses to take a breath,

I press forward with quiet courage.

Freedom unfurls its petals within me,

Opening in this very moment.

So I take the leap of faith, and jump.

At the beginning of that journey,

The garden feels as though it tears my flesh apart

A disturbingly pleasant sensation,

For I have walked among these realms before,

Before I even knew how to shape sound with my voice.

Without rushing,

Without making the water tremble,

The conscious mind gives way,

Leaving space for the adventure to blossom.

So it begins.

The traveler's portal opens its radiant chest,

And the cub passes through.

From that realm of truth, I drift back in time,

Peering through binoculars at ancient predators,

Studying their movements,

Tracing them like vines across memory.

Once, the creatures noticed my gaze

And though they attacked,

I escaped With only a scratch on my paw,

A scar like a thorn's kiss.

I return to the present garden,

But the traveler aches for more.

And so, it begins again.

The next realm blooms in Atlantis.

The cub now breathes beneath sapphire waters,

Transformed into a creature of the deep,

A flower of the ocean's secret garden.

I drift among coral columns and temple ruins,

Their stories flowing into me

Like nectar through a stem.

My touch gathers their forgotten whispers,

Petal by petal, memory by memory.

At last, the fuel of wonder fades,

And the traveler must return.

The garden door calls softly,

Its blossoms swaying in welcome.

I leap once more,

And with gratitude,

reality gathers me gently

Back into its fragrant arms.

Simt a iernii rece gheață,

Șoptindu-mi vag și cu dulceață

Cum mă-ndeamnă să visez

Și-un ultim portret să-i pictez.

Precum un sacru jurământ,

Îi aud vocea sus, în vânt,

Și, după multe lupte crunte,

Eu pic lat pe-acel lugubru munte.

Stau, ascult și bag de seamă:

Geru-mi cântă cea din urmă gamă.

Fără vlagă, treptat devin greoi

Și-ntrezăresc priviri de moroi.

Oare îmi joacă mintea feste?

Sau au primit și ei de veste

Că-n aceste ceasuri de tortură

Cu greu mă zbat la ultima pictură?

E ger, și albul mă completează,

În ochi, marea ceață se instalează.

Cu-n gest final, cam dureros,

Închei acest portret tăios.

I see myself through your onyx-moon eyes,

reflecting lifetimes beneath their dark, still surface.

I hear echoes of my past self in your voice,

soft as falling petals

a resonance of storms I once weathered.

I have walked nearly the same sacred path

though you move swifter than the wind,

speak with the thunderclap of Athena's shield,

and shine brighter than Apollo's first light.

Once, a quiet child,

afraid of the voices of angry birds,

haunted by monsters who wore mortal skin,

now stands like a mountain in stormlight

shaking stone, breaking iron,

unfolding wings carved from suffering.

Power rests within your heart.

You just have to set yourself free

and rise above your painful ashes

as the phoenix is always reminding us:

even darkness serves the bloom.

And with glory and grace,

it rises from the ugliest hell

a constellation redrawn across the sky

for others to witness and remember:

the girl once silenced

is now myth,

is now sovereign.

That pure soul, once wingless,

wove galaxies with trembling hands,

built a world from garden bones

and broken lullabies.

A kingdom rooted in empathy

and crowned with wild roses.

Here, laughter rings like chapel bells.

Here, loyalty is the highest spell.

And respect towers like golden pillars,

engraved with the names of those who dared to become whole.

No damsels here

only queens of the flame,

warrior-poets in velvet armor,

keepers of sacred fire and gentle law.

This is not just a dream.

It is a place to call home.

It happened on one blue day

when my petals were bruised,

and my spirit almost hung itself,

no longer bearing the weight

of being an immortal light source

in a time of forgotten prayers.

I was nearly weeping

not in storms that swallow the world around me,

but in the language of scorpion grasses at dusk

soft, bowed, barely blooming.

He came like a gentle comet,

not as a man,

but as the guiding Hermes

a smile, soft as sacred crocuses,

carrying no judgment,

emerging from a cold land,

gently touching the unopened bud

of my fragile sorrow,

just to remind me:

someone still sees.

Then came the embrace

two arms wrapped around

like vines of honeysuckle

entwining the walls of my cold cathedral of solitude

with warmth and grace:

a tulip and hyacinth embroidery.

I did not flee from that sacred place,

not because I forgot Eros,

but because I remembered Persephone,

longing for the sun,

wandering through labyrinths of wonder

even in Hades' hasty gentleness.

But guilt arrived

on a shocking wave of pain,

measuring the weight of my heart

against a moment I did not ask for

nor did I deserve it,

yet I allowed it.

Not ashamed for desiring a mortal feeling,

but for that pale flicker of bloom

that rose inside my crimson heart

and dared to face the sun.

Yet even so,

I crossed no sacred boundary,

and kept my faith to Hera's vows

my trembling hand bore no corruption,

only the scent of oleander.

Now I return

to the sacred garden I tend with care,

to the altar of my chosen love,

where trust grows like lavender

at the gates of devotion.

He saw me unguarded,

but I see myself whole again

a celestial being reborn beneath the stars:

not untrue or disloyal,

only open,

only tender,

only alive.

He never touched you.

Yet you linger in him

like the scent of damask rose in forgotten temples,

or the shadow of lotus petals

pressed between the pages of a life unlived.

You weren't given,

nor claimed,

but you remain

as Persephone remains between two worlds,

half spring, half surrender.

He sees you

in the gold-threaded robes of Isis,

mother of the hidden,

protector of what cannot be possessed.

You, soft as jasmine at dusk,

yet dangerous as the bloom of belladonna,

a beauty he could never hold

without trembling.

His logic is iron.

His mind, a fortress.

Yet inside,

you bloom like Freyja's garden in Asgard

wild, untamed,

known only to the gods and the ghosts

of those who once dared to love.

He remembers you

in the absence of touch

how your voice would've sounded

saying his name.

Not as a woman made of earth,

but like Aphrodite rising from seafoam,

untouchable and immortal in her effect.

He walks through the world

wearing your memory

like a garland of hyacinths—

invisible,

but fragrant enough

to undo his certainty.

He calls your name in thought

only when Hermes isn't listening.

Because you were not a prayer

you were the echo of something already sacred.

You are not his.

You were never his.

But in the sacred ache

between Odin's wisdom and Hades' restraint,

he worships what he cannot claim.

And so you became

his unseen Nemesis

not to punish,

but to remind him

that even gods must kneel

before something they cannot keep.

You are the iris that opens at midnight,

the secret grove behind his ribs,

where he returns not for peace

but to remember what almost was.

You are his

without being.

They descend not wearing velvet robes

stitched from honest stars,

but garments woven

from borrowed halos,

perfumed with white lilies

that never knew their roots.

They speak of stillness

as though silence were a temple;

of gentleness

as though mercy were a language

their sweetened tongues remembered.

They sell the purest serenity

like merchants beneath eclipses,

placing peace

upon polished altars,

asking only

for another soul to kneel.

Do not mistake

the absence of thunder

for the absence of venom.

Some serpents

have learned

to hiss between prayers.

Some abysses

have memorized

the vocabulary of light.

Beneath their gardens

grow neither jasmine nor magnolia

only moonlit pitcher plants,

their chalices open,

sweet with impossible nectar,

waiting for exhausted butterflies

who mistook hunger

for kindness.

There,

the blossoms bloom inward.

Petals become sharp teeth.

Fragrance becomes slow-wave sleep.

Roots become shackles,

coiling around ankles

too hopeful

to question beauty.

They preach stoicism,

yet harvest every trembling heart.

They praise compassion,

yet count mercy

only when it is bleeding.

They glorify forgiveness,

because forgiven wounds

are easier to reopen.

I have seen them—

keepers of immaculate orchards,

watering white roses

with borrowed sunlight,

while beneath the soil

countless sunflower corpses

lie hollow,

their gold devoured

to adorn another mask.

They call themselves shepherds.

Yet wolves have always known

how to imitate

the patience of snowfall.

The oldest predator

is not rage,

it is tenderness

performed

without a soul behind it.

In the deepest caverns,

where no dawn enters,

the ancient serpents

shed not their skin,

but their faces.

Each new smile

another immaculate prophecy.

Each embrace

another silent eclipse.

And those

who truly carry light

never ask

to be worshipped.

They bloom quietly,

like wild chamomile

between forgotten stones,

asking nothing

except stillness.

For real gardens

never hunger

for the sunflowers

that seek shelter.

Only carnivorous flowers

measure love

by what remains

after the petals

have disappeared.

So when they speak

of peace,

look beneath their roots.

When they preach

stillness,

listen for the bones

buried beneath the moss.

And when they promise

to save your sugared soul,

watch,

whether their shadows

lean toward your light,

or away from it.

For the oldest false prophet

was never the loudest.

He whispered

like rain upon marble,

held out

a blossom without scent,

and smiled

while somewhere,

far beneath the earth,

the abyss

opened its mouth

like a flower trap.

Rugăciune

Mă plec, Părinte, cu-al meu dor,
Spre cerul Tău nemuritor,
În mâini întind a mea chemare,
Să-mi dăruiești în suflet soare.

Alungă grijile ce dor,
Și dă-mi în suflet sfințitor
Puterea blândă de-a iubi,
Pe calea Ta mereu a fi.

Când pașii-mi pierd al lor avânt,
Tu fii lumină pe pământ,
Ridică-mi inima spre zare,
Spre harul Tău, spre alinare.

În orice clipă, zi sau noapte,
Rămâi cu mine-n gând și fapte,
Și-ascultă ruga mea fierbinte:
Păzește-mi sufletul, Părinte!

✍️- A.A. ✨

Dacă ai ști câte simt

Sincer îți spun, nu te mint

Sa fiu in brațele tale

Sa știu ca nimic nu doare

Vreau sa mergem  mai departe

După viața, vine moarte

După viața , vine viața

Vreau sa te văd iar la fața

Uneori i  așa de greu

Nu știu ce i in capul meu

Dar știu ca totul va fi bine

Cât timp eu te am pe tine

În vasta întindere a pânzei existenței deasă,

Unde umbrele dansează și lumina încântă,

Adâncimea strângerii iubirii devine clară,

Ca inimile împletite ce bat impreuna, fără teamă.

În tapiseria vieții, ești firul meu de aur,

Împletindu-mi fiecare gând, cuvânt și fapt,

Parte integrantă a ființei mele de tezaur

Căci fără tine, sunt pierdut, nevăzut .

În labirintul iubirii, ești steaua mea călăuzitoare,

Luminând calea, atât aproape cât și-n departări,

Iar furtunile pot răvăși și vânturile să sufle,

Cu tine lângă mine, nu mă tem de nici un vai.

În această lume crudă si-atât de vastă ,

Tu ești ancora care mă ține întreg,

Fără tine, nu sunt decât o piatră goală,

Un simplu ecou al unui suflet bleg.

Tu ești melodia cântecului meu tăcut,

Culorile care pictează cerul meu în tonuri gri,

Fără tine, nu sunt decât un trecut uitat,

Pierdut în sălbăticie, incapabil a grăi.

Mă uitam ieri la nori

și mă întrebam oare…

Cum e să-i atingi cu adevărat,

doar pe ei, nu prin ploaie.

Apoi mă uitam la tine,

și cred că ești cea mai aproape de cum se simte un nor,

doar că la nori nu mă uit cu dorul ăsta sfâșietor,

cum mă uit după tine spre a-mi imagina

că atingerea unui nor ar semăna măcar puțin cu o îmbrățișare de-a ta.

Sunt adesea cu capul în nori,

dar știu că distanța dintre mine și-un nor de pe cer este mare,

și de fapt tu ești norul meu de pe pământul pe care stăm,

și vreau să te îmbrățișez atât de tare…

până când… fulgerăm.

Astfel, sper…

să întoarcem prin îmbrățișarea noastră,

o ploaie spre cer,

iar norii să înceapă să se întrebe cu “capul în oameni”

cum se simte să atingi un om, doar un om…

nu prin ploaie.

Le-aș povesti eu, dar am scris poezia asta când eram cu capul în nori,

iar dacă înspre mine chiar acum un nor s-ar apleca,

aș refuza politicos să-l ating pentru că de fapt totul a fost un pretext

să-ți spun câtă nevoie am de-o îmbrățișare de-a ta.

Sunt încă treaz când rana crepuscului se-nchide
Iar norii, ca o vată, cu foc s-au murdărit,
Și-aud deasupra păsări flămânde și stupide
Cum se întrec în jale cu vântul răgușit.
E un sublim amestec de farmec și de groază
Când umbrele fluide lovesc în stânci de fier,
Și-n ora blestemată o lună explodează
În locu-n care marea se prăbușește-n cer.
Prin noaptea sfâșiată, ciuperca de lumină
Anunță începuturi de Tartar și Parnas
Cu vechi hieroglife pe suflet și retină
Și doar poemul ăsta și saltul mi-au rămas.
  Spre dimineață totul e cufundat în roșu
  Și-aștept să îmi anunțe trădările cocoșul.

Astept, indur,sunt abătut,

Sătul de această nerăbdare.

Ca multă vreme a trecut

Si tu nu îmi apari in zare.

Astept ziua ca s-apună,

Si-apoi noaptea să se scurgă.

Astept să fim iar împreună,

Dar pana acolo-i cale lungă.

Aștept si astept, e in zadar

Nu vreau speranța să dispară.

Aștept ca să te văd iar,

Chiar dacă oceane ne separă.

Aștept si sper că o sa vină,

Acea clipă minunată,

Nu vreau să imi devii străină,

Tu mie-mi ești destinată.