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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clopotele bat în disperare,

cerul sângeriu se scurge-n

pământul crăpat; a Iadului-liberare...

Demonii se-nalță și aleargă,

oamenii cerșesc o clipă viața:

În noroi-și topesc speranța...

Adulți a căror viață-i muncă,

Copiii ce vor să crească și

Bătrâni plictisiți de viață...

Moartea se-nalță pe munți;

ei imploră-o amânare:

n-au știut trăi atare...

Dar Moartea-o lege are

și-o limbă înțeleasă de viață,

netrăită de oameni...

La umbra pomului arzând privesc

cum totu-n jur se-ncheie

și-un nou drum se-ivește...

Surprinsă, Moartea-ntreabă:

”Viață de la mine nu ceri?

Muritor ingrat ce ești!”

„Nu, răspunsei aumuzat;

Te-aștept de mult să vii,

Căci mi-am consumat viața trăind!”

Sabia-i se-nalță și totul sfârșește;

iar eu mor râzând

c-am știut ce-i viața!

De mare am vrut să fiu copil
Să nu trăiesc o viață în zadar
Mereu să fiu util
Dar mi se rup filele din calendar

Am să mor și eu odată
În cămară singuratic
Viața îmi este înnodată
Și sufletul sălbatic

Doar un singur paragraf
Din tot ceea ce-am avut
Voi lăsa doar praf
Și nimic mai mult

O zi de luni, cu soare negru,

Pare că-mi zâmbește dinadins, 

Un pui de flacără nestins

In amintirea unui gând funebru.

O zi de luni cu negru soare, 

Pare că-mi zâmbește mai aprins

Și încet prin lume s-a întins

O zi de luni, cu negru soare.

O zi de luni, cu soare negru,

Zi întunecată și blestem,

Peste suflet rece din infern,

In amintire.. gând funebru. 

O zi de luni cu soare negru,

O monotona așteptare

Spre vecile fără scăpare,

Gând funebru.

De Adam Ioana Andreea Lenuța 

    Ciudate reptile, inerte,
    ca liniile groase, 
    târăsc pe cerul încins, 
    vântul ce-nclină copacii, 
    tăcerea trosneşte în noapte, 
    în zgomot teribil ca oasele sparte...
    
    Apa curge din frunze, 
    şi-agită burlanuri, 
    lumina e moartă,
    pământul slinos, 
    vrea să mă-nghită, 
    bastard ticălos...
    
    În genunchi mă târăsc, 
    cu greu, tot mai greu, 
    noroiul e ud, şi-l simt peste tot,
    îmi curge pe piele, 
    negru, cleios...
    
    Iubito cândva, ai să calci
    peste mine; când piatră voi fi...
    cu sufletul spart, tăiat în felii.
    Dar nu te opri, ci mergi mai departe,
    căci tu m-ai pierdut în gânduri deşarte,
    închis în tăcerea-mi surată, etern blestemat,
    în picioare de tine şi alţii călcat...

Liniștea mă acaparează,

Cerul brusc se înnorează,

Oamenii țipă, dar nu ii aud.

Pe piatra funerară scrie că m-am înecat în rau.

M-am reîncarnat într-o pasăre,

Fără remușcări  zbor liberă către cer.

S-a terminat chinul, în sfârșit!

Dar nu este un final fericit.

Lasă-mă în pace!

Nu te atinge de mine.

În sufletul meu sunt doar ruine,

Nu încerca să ajungi la mine, sunt deja pe fundul lacului.

Ambulanța se zguduie,

Toată  lumea e agitată,

Dar eu aud liniștea pentru prima dată.

În schimb, corpul neînsuflețit bântuie.

Cel mai greu examen este la finiș,

Încearcă, de poți, să-l treci cu capul sus,

Nu te mai văita, când ceva te doare,

Nu mai da sfaturi... steaua ta a apus...

Nu primi mila nimănui, fii tare,

Refugiază-te în lucruri mărunte,

Un suflet necuvântător, nu te minte,

Prietenia lui e ca veșnicia, nu moare.

Când ești pierdut, și nu mai ai putere,

Le ești de folos, doar de ai avere,

Toți după asta, umblă și aleargă,

Ușor se prefac, că le ești dragă.

Copii, au plecat în lume, să le fie bine

Când se întorc, se simt străini acasă,

Ce se întâmplă cu noi, nu le mai pasă,

Ne zbatem, cât viața de noi se mai ține...