When Kindness Found Me

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.


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All author's poems: Flora Cocan poezii.online When Kindness Found Me

Date of posting: 23 July

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Entities Masquerade

There comes a time of year

When the grand bargain begins,

Not on the streets filled with vitality,

But in the shadows of the necropolis.

 

That time when the Four O'Clock flower breaks,

Shattered glass strewn across morality,

Violins echoing through chrysanthemums—

An entire ballad of the false prophets.

 

And in such a dreadful realm,

The White Dahlia enters with petals shrinking,

Trembling as the winds begin to embrace her.

Two pairs of eyes seize her gaze:

One's Deadly Nightshade,

the other's Devil's Hand.

 

One is there to devour her soul;

The other to protect and shield her:

Unfortunately, all entities wear masks.

What gleams is venom,

What offers refuge seems lethal.

 

The first waltz with the broken,

virtuous entity Unfolds in darkness,

Flowers shivering in the aura that surrounds him.

Warnings drip from his affection;

Her vitality seeps into his mask.

The long, agonizing sway ends in tears.

 

The second dance with the wicked one

Casts beams of pearly light across the floor,

Flickers of hope and sparks tangled in mysterious smiles.

Tiny, precise steps lure her core into an abyss.

She blooms once more

Only to be severed again with the final sigh of her stamina.

 

What happened to them, you might ask?

Devil's Hand betrays his loving core, vanishing into obscurity.

White Dahlia, dripping tears of blood, continues to bloom

 

Brighter, fiercer than ever.

Deadly Nightshade aches still,

Hunting those ruby tears with insatiable hunger:

One astray, one reaching the focal point, one hollow within its own elegance.

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Garden of Hollow Serpents

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You Are His Without Being

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.

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A Broken Sunflower

Cruel Cronos engraved me early,

not with gentleness,

but by hands of shadows

who mistook my springtime figure

for silence,

who thought my tears were seeds easily buried.

 

I was a sanctuary of lilies,

crushed before the bloom,

a jasmine bruised by shadows,

an innocent violet forced into stone.

Their voices were storms,

their laughter-chains of iron,

and I, too petite to fight,

learned the language of fear.

 

Yet within me, a sunflower spark

refusing to give up its soul,

rooted itself deeper,

drinking light even from darkness,

whispering: you are more than their hands,

you are more than their cruelty.

 

So I rose, piece by piece,

a wounded Rose of Venus,

crowned not by shame,

but by the fire of endurance.

Where they carved burning scars,

I carved flourishing constellations.

Where they plucked petals,

I grew wings of lavender and flame.

 

Now my voice is the garden restored:

not silent,

not broken,

but alive

a testament that innocence stolen

is not innocence lost,

that even from the deepest, darkest wound,

a sunflower can rise

and teach the world

what it means

to see, to feel,

and yet not become a shadow itself.

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Grădina speranței

Sub lumina blândă a unei zile senine,

În grădina unde speranța se înfiripă,

Se deschid petale de iubire și căldură,

Pe alei de taină unde viața încă pulsează și respiră.

  

Cei care veghează, ca brazii tăcuți,

Cu mâini de lumină și zâmbet de flori,

Îndrumă pașii obosiți, cu glasuri de crini abia-nfloriți,

Și alinarea curge lin, ca un râu printre izvoare pline de dor.

 

Boboci și stejari cărunți,

Găsesc în atingere și cuvânt o primăvară nouă,

Învățând că-n fiecare clipă de suferință,

Se poate să înflorească curajul și speranța cea nouă.

 

Dragostea lor nu se rupe, nu se frânge,

E floare nemuritoare în clepsidra timpului,

Și chiar dacă umbrele trec peste clipele fragile,

Întotdeauna rămâne parfumul cald al grijii.

  

Și noi, ca frunze ce tremură la adiere,

Învățăm să fim răbdători, să ne lăsăm purtați,

Căci aici, în acest colț de grădină miraculoasă,

Durerea devine floare și speranță.

 

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Voice of the Flowers

Time has passed fast,

Yet it kept me awake

Constantly living that moment,

That spark of eternity,

That ray of glowing sunshine,

Luminous and delightful as the bluebell

Photographed by a pair of big, earthy eyes,

Kept alive on the surface of my retina,

Along neuronal pathways,

Planted like a sunflower seed

Deep inside my consciousness,

Flourishing and thriving,

Sweet as a lavender mousse.

 

So if the memory of our first encounter

Is delicate as a jasmine flower,

Or mesmerising as a sunset hibiscus,

You, my beloved, are the Rose of Venus

As Aphrodite dances around Gaia,

Leaving traces of red jasper petals,

Keeping us on the path to greater love-

So do you.

 

As the pure ones walk through the Garden of Eden,

Or as Iris brings the majestic rainbow

As a messenger of the gods,

Growing straight along its path to wisdom,

Bringing strength and boldness

To those who are blessed enough to see

So do you.

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Adorm cu poza ta la piept.

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Ți-ar mângâia visarea,

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AMĂRĂCIUNE...

    De după mască m-ai privit 
    Cu ochi mijiţi de dor şi ură...
    Şi dând din gene m-ai ademenit, 
    Să vin să te sărut pe gură...
    
    Cu buzele strivite de dulceaţă, 
    Te-ai răsucit în palmele-mi inapte, 
    Iar râsul tău, străin, în ceaţă, 
    S-a risipit şi s-a pierdut în șoapte...
    
    Eu n-am ştiut că-n miezul nopţii,
    Ai hotărât ca pentru crima mea 
    Să fiu întemniţat, precum sunt hoţii, 
    Care-au furat din cer o stea...
    
    Dar nu te-ai mulţumit numai cu asta, 
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Pe ultimul nostru drum

Luminat de felinare,ce slabe lumini…

Am condus-o in gară ca apoi

Cu ochii înlăcrimați i-am spus

Întoarce-ți obrazul și fii gata,

Viața o să-ți arate câte s-au întamplat

În timp ce tu visai la el,iar el…la cer.

 

Cu glasul tremurat și ochii înlăcrimați

A urcat în trenul 04, linia 3,

Cu șireturile desfăcute a pășit

Și odata cu ea a fugit și iubirea…

Împiedicată iubire,de tine învinsă

În a noastră luptă continuă!

 

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Nopțiile nedormite, nu s-au terminat

 

Ce am așteptat, nimic nu s-a întâmplat

Sa mai fiu un scut, eu am renunțat

N-o sa mai fiu acolo, căci sunt alungat

Iar din toate, doar o lecție am învățat

 

Și de-mi veți duce dorul

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Agață-mi pe suflet o stea

Deschide petale de soare

Ascundemă-n inima ta

 

Sărută-mi cu glasul urechea

Pictează-mi pe cer lumea ta

Atinge cu zâmbete gândul

Așează-mi în mâini mâna ta

 

Sărută-mi cu visele ochii

Alături în noapte zburând

S-ajungem pe-o floare doi fluturi

Nectarul iubirii gustând

 

Sărută-mi cu sete obrazul

Usucă-mi cu buzele stropi

Aprins clocotește vulcanul

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