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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.

 


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Date of posting: 22 July

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Afecțiunea arborilor

Sub clar de luna amară,

Am să-ți cânt despre o primăvară,

Primăvară prinsă într-o buclă atemporală,

Încețoșată buclă într-o clepsidră neclară.

 

 

Primul boboc blajin de liliac,

Tras fin ca printr-un microscopic ac,

Crescut la umbra unui nuc posac,

Vioi se grăbea deja să fie pe plac.

 

 

Îmbăiat în mireasmă, se dorea să pară,

Desprins forțat dintr-o lume bizară,

Să-și deschidă petalele se ruga seară de seară,

Visând la lumea mare ce îl înconjoară

 

 

Amorul pândea să iasă la atac;

Propria-i esență urma să îi vină de hac,

Neştiind că mai bine de un veac

Pasiunea ce o va purta nu va avea leac.

 

 

Cei dintâi muguri sfioși cedară

La un încordat ceas de seară,

Și-n astfel de clipe scântei se creară,

Căci în grădină emoțiile aveau să apară.

 

 

Pentru regat, iubirea părea a fi un fleac,

Dar nu și pentru noul june liliac.

Văzând cum grațioasele magnolii zac,

Fulgerător, cu un gând trecu la atac.

 

 

Și, dacă nu ar fi fost să piară

Această dragoste pură și rară,

Probabil s-ar mai fi dat sfară-n țară

Despre nemaivăzuta uniune cardinală

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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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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."

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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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A Place to Call Home

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.

 

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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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In concediu!

Am plecat din Piatra Neamț

Și-am mânat puțin cam tare,

Tocmai către Marea Neagră

Să mă ard mai mult la soare

 

Pe traseu ne-am abătut

Pe la podul suspendat,

Neam de neam nu a văzut

Așa pod pe stâlpi fixat

 

La o vilă ne-am cazat

Și-apoi la plaja-m plecat,

Aici lume de pe lume

Pe șezlong și pe cearșaf

 

Soarele e azi puternic

Iar nisipul ușor frige,

Intru în apa cu Marce

Și în doi batem o minge

 

Apa mării este călduță

Te îmbie la o bălăceală,

Puțin frig când ieși afară

Te-ncălzești prin țopăială

 

Briza caldă te mângâie

Și pielea o răcorește,

In jur multă hărmălaie

Valul frumos unduiește

 

Ne dăm cu ulei de plajă

Să fim protejați de soare,

Vrem un bronz de abanos

De la cap până-n picioare

 

Lipsă nu e la mâncare

Peste tot comercianți,

Ia porumbul și gogoașa

Totul face zece șfanți

 

Seara vine peste noi

Și ne-mpinge către casă,

Ne e sete, puțin foame

Iute ne grăbim la masă

 

Nu durează multă vreme

Până plaja se golește,

Vine noaptea, pleacă ziua

Pe drum lumea povestește

 

A fost o zi minunată

Cu înnot și stat la soare,

Tolăniți am stat la plajă

Până s-a lăsat răcoare

 

Acum cinăm în balcon

Bunătăți gătite-acasă,

Vom ieși la o plimbare

La un vin sec pe terasă

 

Mâine o luăm de la capăt

Tot la plajă, apă, briză, soare,

Ne petrecem tot concediul

Nu la munte, ci la mare!

 

 

 

 

 

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Psalmi - XVI - Nevrednicia

 

Doamne, cum să-Ți vorbesc,

Când limba mea e arsă de păcat,

Și rugăciunea se frânge în gâtul meu

Ca o pasăre rănită ce nu mai poate cânta?

 

Mă tem de rugă, cum se teme noroiul de cer,

Cum se teme umbra de zi.

Nevrednic sunt să stau înaintea Ta,

Căci gândul meu adesea Te-a uitat,

Și pașii mei s-au rătăcit în mândrie.

 

Dar unde să mă duc, Doamne,

Dacă nu spre Tine?

Cine să mă asculte în ruina inimii mele,

Dacă nu Tu, Cel ce cunoști lacrima dinainte s-o plâng?

 

Primește-mi teama ca pe o ofrandă,

Și nevrednicia mea ca pe o rugă în taină.

Nu am cununi, nu am jertfe curate,

Dar vin cu inima sfărâmată —

Și poate, în zdrobirea ei, vei vedea chipul Tău.

 

Dacă taci, mă învăț cu tăcerea.

Dacă mustri, primesc.

Dar dacă, Doamne, mă auzi,

Atunci iartă-mi îndrăzneala de a Te căuta.

 

Căci, chiar nevrednic,

Tot spre Tine suspin.

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ОБИТАНИЕ...

Тело — дом души.

Не крепость — временное жильё

с окнами, запотевшими от мыслей,

с дверью, скрипящей от сомнений.

 

Я живу здесь…

и не всегда понимаю:

хозяйка я

или гость,

задержавшийся дольше срока.

 

Иногда в этих стенах светло:

в моём смехе,

в чужом тепле,

коснувшемся осторожно имени.

Тогда дом дышит шире,

потолки уходят ввысь,

а трещины

ложатся линиями судьбы, а не изломами.

 

Но бывает и так —

тишина оседает пылью

на подоконниках дней.

Внутри

тесно от невысказанного.

Слова мечутся кругами,

как звери в клетке,

и сердце бьётся

о рёбра —

ищет выход.

 

Я учусь жить бережно.

Не хлопать дверью,

не разбивать зеркала правдой.

Я расставляю внутри

источники света —

воспоминания,

лица,

простые «ты рядом».

 

Тело помнит всё.

Каждое прикосновение —

гвоздь или крыло.

Каждый страх —

сквозняк,

застрявший в проёмах.

 

И всё же…

этот дом — мой.

Со всеми углами,

неровными стенами

и окнами, в которых

видно больше, чем хочется.

 

Я открываю их.

Пусть ветер.

Пусть боль.

Пусть жизнь заходит без стука.

 

Душа

не создана для закрытых комнат.

 

И если однажды

придётся уйти —

я хочу оставить этот дом

тёплым.

Светящимся.

 

Как будто здесь

действительно

жили.

 

P.S. Tema acestui poem a rezonat în sufletul meu dintr-o discuție cu oameni frumoși la suflet și gând. Versurile au îmbrățișat mai ușor emoțiile anume în limba rusă. Punctez, limba rusă nu este limba maternă.

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din cartea „lirică de mini-cartier”

nu țin minte nimic;

nu sunt fericit,

dacă ești fericit nu te simți bântuit — poate așa

dormeam noaptea (Poate dormeam și ziua.)

mă bucuram de momente

mă bucuram de clătitele făcute de tata

mă bucuram de conversațiile cu mama

mă bucuram de ce e mAi important pentru mine;

totul e în ceață,

dar sunt pesimist

și sper să văd curând

adevăratele probleme.

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FĂRĂ AXĂ

Am învățat să mergem drept

fără să știm încotro.

Busola stă pe raft,

curată, nefolosită.

 

Binele nu mai coboară din adânc,

se negociază la suprafață.

Răul nu mai sperie,

doar încomodează.

 

Am schimbat altarul

cu o masă de calcul,

iar sufletul

cu un profil editabil.

 

Nu mai căutăm adevărul,

ci versiunea care doare mai puțin.

Nu mai cerem iertare,

doar explicații.

 

Și totuși,

în tăcerea care urmează zgomotului,

se aude un pas vechi,

o chemare fără nume,

o axă care încă ține lumea

să nu cadă.

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Psalmi - XXXIII - Baia de foc

 

Doamne,

ai îngăduit să intru în foc

nu ca să mă pierzi,

ci ca să-mi topești coaja păcatului

până nu mai rămâne nimic

decât durerea de a fi viu cu adevărat.

 

Am plâns în mijlocul flăcărilor

și am strigat: „M-ai uitat!”

Dar Tu, tăcut, ardeai cu mine

și-mi arătai că suferința

nu e capătul,

ci începutul renașterii.

 

Focul nu m-a nimicit,

ci mi-a ars zidurile pe care mi le-am clădit

împotriva Ta.

Mi-a sfărâmat voința bolnavă

și mi-a dezgolit inima

ca să Te încapă din nou.

 

Baia de foc, Doamne,

a fost valea rușinii mele,

dar și altarul unde am înțeles

că iertarea nu vine rece,

ci fierbinte,

ca o rană care începe să se închidă.

 

M-ai lăsat să ard,

ca să învăț, cum să fac

să lumineze ceva din mine.

 

Focul Tău e greu,

dar e singurul care nu ucide,

ci curăță.

E judecata care iubește,

e rana care vindecă.

 

Și dacă tot ce am fost,

trebuie să piară în flăcări,

Doamne,

nu pleca din cuptor

câtă vreme eu ard.

 

Rămâi cu mine

în această baie de foc,

până când nu voi mai fi al meu,

ci numai al Tău 

 

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