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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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All author's poems: Flora Cocan poezii.online A Broken Sunflower

Date of posting: 23 July

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Sfințirea clipei și a momentului

Trăiește clipa, trăiește momentul 

Cuvintele astea, înfundat, se aud,

Ca un ecou de mult apus

În cea mai adâncă peșteră a subconstientului.

 

Traiește clipa, traiește momentul

 Bâjbâi, abia apuc de coadă momentul,

Clipa se prelinge macabru de iute,

Alunecând printre degetele mele, aproape moarte.

 

Trăiește clipa, trăiește momentul 

Dar cum? Vă întreb eu pe voi:

Cum să trăiești, în primul rând,

Când abia simțim cum ne poartă viața-n spate?

 

 

Traiește clipa, traiește momentul

 Cu amar și jale cânt doine-n peșteri,

Sperând că răsună peste pustiile câmpii;

Cu lacrimi arse pe obraji, cântecul se frânge.

 

Trăiește clipa, trăiește momentul 

O s-o rostesc ca pe cea mai dragă rugăciune,

Până când clipa o să devină infinită

lar momentul va atinge sacrul apogeu.

 

Trăiește clipa, trăiește momentul 

Iar când tu, alchimistule,

Vei atinge cea dintâi filosofie,

Uşor să-ți treacă sufletul în eternitate.

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The Traveler's Portal

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.

 

More ...

The Demon and the Priest

Dear gentle reader,

Beneath the pale moonlight,

I have entered your dreams

and whispered softly

the legend of soul ties.

 

Slowly, you step beside me.

Hungry eyes gather in the distance.

The reality swallowing us whole

is nothing but a forgotten battlefield.

 

Your razor-sharp gaze is captured.

 

There, among dozens of rotting corpses,

stand two figures suspended in silence,

like the final pillars of a fallen temple.

 

The first— a broken priest.

 

Wounded, endlessly praying,

his trembling hands, his crooked fingers,

still searching for a fragment of mercy.

 

The second— a gentle demon.

 

Waves of warmth orbit around her.

Her sapphire eyes remain fixed upon the horizon,

calmly gazing into the endless dark.

 

You see them, don't you?

 

Remain still.

Obedience is the key.

 

Watch closely,

for what you are about to witness

will unsettle the deepest parts of your soul.

 

She senses the priest's sorrow

rising above the dead surrounding him.

His misery speaks louder than words.

 

"Take my hand," she whispers.

 

"Drink from my waters.

You have exhausted your strength

for far too long."

 

"My fair lady... my endless cup of hope...

How could a poor soul like mine

ever deserve to reach you?"

 

Like distant constellations,

their paths collide.

 

He drinks fiercely from the source of her light,

while she willingly holds him close,

believing compassion alone

can heal what time could not.

 

"How can this be?

Have I become blind

or simply mad?"

 

"Silence.

Ask yourself what you're truly seeing.

The truth stands before us.

It is only hidden

from those unwilling to look."

 

What feels like thousands of years pass.

 

The priest and the demon

begin studying one another.

 

One— cold as forged steel,

calculating,

entirely ruled by the mind.

 

The other— guided by razor-sharp intuition,

profound empathy,

and quiet emotional wisdom.

 

Again and again,

the priest manipulates, betrays, wounds,

engraving new scars into her soul.

Again and again,

the demon forgives.

 

Once. Twice.

 

Until—

something clicks.

 

The pattern reveals itself.

The spell dissolves.

 

She stands perfectly still,

frozen in time, calculating,

without anger, without reaction.

 

Holding every advantage,

she prepares her departure

in absolute silence.

 

She could have struck him down.

She could have carved wounds

deeper than those he had ever known.

 

But she finally understands.

This is no wounded soul.

This is a predator.

Her sapphire eyes become crystal clear.

 

And then—

she goes supernova.

 

The script shatters.

The roles reverse.

For the first time,

the priest chokes on fear.

 

He was clever.

Subtle as a serpent.

Yet painfully predictable.

She had always seen beyond the mask.

 

She understood him

better than he understood himself.

For the depth of her empathy

could only exist

because it mirrored

the depth of her own darkness.

And his downfall

would become far worse than hell.

 

"He searched for golden nectar,

yet stumbled upon an unknown creature."

 

The dead begin to vanish,

laughing into the wind.

The battlefield collapses

into an endless abyss,

opening its ancient mouth.

 

"Poor little priest...

At last,

you have shaken hands

with your karmic mirror."

More ...

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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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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Portret în alb

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.

 

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The Light of The Saints

THE LIGHT OF THE SAINTS

​1

Today they gather in pure light,

All the heavenly Saints in rich glory.

They pray and sing to You, Lord,

Lord, to You we return as we.

​2

Through their holy sacrifice, through tears and longing,

They wrote love on earth in flight.

With blood and grace they bore heavy trials,

Carrying the cross of life with a chosen heart.

​3

Far in the light, now they are crowned,

Angels and Saints gather in song.

They shine like bright stars,

Carrying us in mystery through passing times.

​4

In fierce battles, in pain and sorrow,

They bore witness to holy power.

And in eternal glory, Saints keep watch,

With divine mercy they surround us all.

​5

From fields of blood, from empty prisons,

Living flowers of holiness have sprung.

In the name of the Cross they walked to the end,

Receiving the crown of life as they came.

​6

O Lord, through the Saints You strengthen our path,

In the heart You place light, patience.

Through them may we know Your pure face,

The wondrous, unending spring.

​7

O Saints, dwellers of the Kingdom,

Bring your message to the world:

Of peace, of love, of giving,

Of pure sacrifice and salvation.

​8

In the heavy night when the soul is weak,

You, Saints, do not abandon our way.

You are our example and steadfast support,

Serving in faith the good God.

​9

With a living heart, with praying voice,

We honor the Saints in uplifting song.

They are the treasure of the Holy Church,

Shining through ages ahead.

​10

Praised be the Lord who called the Saints,

And in His great glory He has placed them.

Through them may we live in faith and longing,

Toward eternal peace in Your holy dwelling.

​Amen.

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cu zâmbete sarcastice
 
am luat o decizie
ambii delirici
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Tăcere.
Tăcere în ploaie
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Tăcere!
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THE LIGHT OF THE SAINTS

                                                          

1.

Today they gather in pure light,

All the heavenly Saints in rich glory.

They pray and sing to You, Lord,

Lord, to You we return as we.

2.

Through their holy sacrifice, through tears and longing,

They wrote love on earth in flight.

With blood and grace they bore heavy trials,

Carrying the cross of life with a chosen heart.

3.

Far in the light, now they are crowned,

Angels and Saints gather in song.

They shine like bright stars,

Carrying us in mystery through passing times.

4.

In fierce battles, in pain and sorrow,

They bore witness to holy power.

And in eternal glory, Saints keep watch,

With divine mercy they surround us all.

5.

From fields of blood, from empty prisons,

Living flowers of holiness have sprung.

In the name of the Cross they walked to the end,

Receiving the crown of life as they came.

6.

O Lord, through the Saints You strengthen our path,

In the heart You place light, patience.

Through them may we know Your pure face,

The wondrous, unending spring.

7.

O Saints, dwellers of the Kingdom,

Bring your message to the world:

Of peace, of love, of giving,

Of pure sacrifice and salvation.

8.

In the heavy night when the soul is weak,

You, Saints, do not abandon our way.

You are our example and steadfast support,

Serving in faith the good God.

9.

With a living heart, with praying voice,

We honor the Saints in uplifting song.

They are the treasure of the Holy Church,

Shining through ages ahead.

10.

Praised be the Lord who called the Saints,

And in His great glory He has placed them.

Through them may we live in faith and longing,

Toward eternal peace in Your holy dwelling.

Amen.Jesus loves you❤️

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Efecte-n lanțuri ce ne strâng și ranile-s adânci,

Interiorul-i inundat de sânge si venin,

Iar corpul moale ni-l simțim,

De stringuri ce-s străine.

 

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In timp culoare și-a schimbat,

Și-n corp s-au adâncit,

De ani nostri încărcați ,

Cu frică și rușine.

 

Efect in lanțurile groase, simțit spre al tău final,

Durerea,frica și trădarea prin viață te-au ghidat.

Privești cu atâta înțelepciune din stare de uimire,

Că acel efect de lanțuri strânse,a fost a ta trezire.

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