A Broken Sunflower

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Un gest mărunt, o mână întinsă,

E tot ce trebuie acum,

Să ții speranța mereu aprinsă

În cei ce rătăcesc pe drum.

Nu-i slăbiciune să fii bun,

Ci e o forță fără seamăn,

Să poți din suflet să aduni

Lumină pentru orice geamăn.

Căci bunătatea, ca un ecou,

Se-ntoarce-n viață negreșit,

Te face om, te naște nou

Și-ți lasă sufletul împlinit.

Aveai susurul în suflet

Când totul te electriza,

Sentimentul cel de nebănuit

Nu te așteptai la așa ceva.

Lasă râul să lovească

Cu ale sale valuri reci,

Speră să nu te trezească

Niciodată, în veci.

Timpul nu ne mai așteaptă,

E acum ori niciodată.

Întinde brațele spre soare,

Îmbrățișează ce primești

Și respiră cu putere,

Căci singur tu nu mai ești.

Mirosul florilor de mai,

Aroma ce te-mbie,

Ce te face să visezi,

Ce speranță te trezește

Și te face ca să speri.

Lasă râul să lovească

Cu ale sale valuri reci,

Speră să nu te trezească

Niciodată, în veci.

Timpul nu ne mai așteaptă,

E acum ori niciodată.

Tu ai rostit rugăciunea-n puține cuvinte,
Și te-ai rugat în umbra icoanelor sfinte, 
Să culegi lumina dintâi a primilor zori,
Pentru care merită să trăiești și-apoi să mori...

Cu fruntea plecată și palmele întinse,
Îngenunchiat în fața icoanelor plânse,
Ai tremurat lumina cea sfântă-n cădelniți,
Și de pe umeri, albe aripi de îngeri goniți...

Învăluit în parfumul florilor albastre de mai,
Ai pășit pe autostrada ta care duce în rai,
Cu suflet ușor, în dreaptă și mută credință,
Curat, destinul tău s-a împlinit în neființă...

PURO, DESTINO NEL NON ESSERE

Hai pronunciato la preghiera in poche parole,
e pregasti all’ombra delle icone sante,
per raccogliere la prima luce dell’alba prima,
per cui vale la pena vivere e poi morire…

Con la fronte china e i palmi tesi,
in ginocchio restasti davanti alle icone piangenti,
per far tremare la luce santa negli incensieri,
e scacciare dalle spalle le ali bianche degli angeli inseguiti…

Avvolto nel profumo dei fiori azzurri di maggio,
imboccasti la strada che conduce al paradiso,
con anima lieve, in retta e muta fede,
puro, il tuo destino si compì nel non essere…

Eu m-am pierdut in roluri

Ce nu-mi aparțineau

Doar să zâmbească oameni

In timp ce eu plângeam 

 

Și când am luat de seamă

De cât de multe sunt

Am devenit actorul 

Pierdut in propriul film

 

Apoi am derulat

Am început să șterg 

Cu ochii plini de lacrimi 

Tot ce nu  însemnăm eu..

 

Când am ajuns la mine

La propriul meu rol

Regizoru-mi dăduse

Un rol lipsit de măști - era cel principal..

Rămân desculță în fața lumii, sub cerul gri de amintiri,

O ploaie caldă de trăiri se cerne-n mii de rătăciri.

Nu știu ce strop îmi va aduce bucurie sau un chin,

Sunt doar o călătoare-n viață, cu sufletul de taine plin.

Uneori, un singur picur e un ocean neașteptat,

Îmi umple pieptul de lumină și spală tot ce a durut vreodat'.

Alți stropi sunt grei, lovesc cu teamă și lasă urme pe pământ,

Dar am învățat că și norii se risipesc purtați de vânt.

Nu mă mai tem de nicio stâncă, nu mă ascund de sutele nuanțe,

Fiecare strop ce-mi cade-n palme aduce noi și noi speranțe.

Las ploaia asta să mă ude, să-mi ducă sufletul in pustie,

Căci doar primind și bune și rele, simt cu adevărat că-s vie. 

Primesc și picurul de viață, oricât de slab sau de intens,

În marea ploaie de momente, simt că și durerea are-un sens.

Sunt gata sufletul să-mi umplu cu tot ce Cerul are-acum,

Căci după fiecare ploaie, se vede-un soare răsărind pe drum.

Un strop de magie,

Plin cu bucurie,

Un strop de iubire ,

Revărsat in extaz...

Un strop de magie,

Plin de uimire,

Un strop de râs,

Cu sănătate în plus .

Un strop de magie,

Plin de noi doi,

Un strop de plăcere,

 Dansând printre ploi...

Un strop de magie,

Plin de trăire.,

Un strop de Divin,

Etern pe Pământ.