“
I don't know why
time
is dancing now
before us
soft and sandy
like the poets' women.
it wants me in all songs.
maybe you'd take me in for a moment
to your Andalusia
where today
no one has died.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (Orbul de la Cină (The Blind Man at Dinner))
“
the old ones
hold their kiss
in stones.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (Orbul de la Cină (The Blind Man at Dinner))
“
Când ne deschidem
tu mie şi eu ţie,
când ne scufundăm
tu în mine şi eu în tine,
când ne pierdem
tu în mine şi eu în tine,
Abia atunci
eu sunt eu
şi tu eşti tu.
”
”
Bernhard Schlink (The Reader)
“
All she wanted was
A luminous fish,
One she could never fish.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (The Void That Reflects Your Beauty)
“
wait for me in a song!
if you’ve come to dinner,
release your dogs,
pour the wine into the sky,
for all the longing ghosts
of the grapes (...)
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (Orbul de la Cină (The Blind Man at Dinner))
“
There is so much love in a sunset,
Descending from this world
In quiet worship.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (The Void That Reflects Your Beauty)
“
așteaptă-mă cântând!
dacă-ai venit la cină
dezleagă-ți câinii toți
răstoarnă-l în cer vinul
pentru stihiile albe
ale strugurilor (...)
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (Orbul de la Cină (The Blind Man at Dinner))
“
someone was singing
and he was alone.
for us, you wrote yourself
in small letters
so we wouldn’t know.
from the bitterness of blood,
from the nights of the eagles,
that music began,
but we couldn’t hear it.
the grapes are calling
their wine,
the stranger. (...)
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (Orbul de la Cină (The Blind Man at Dinner))
“
I cannot explain what a prayer is.
But I know how to kneel in the grass
with the fallen leaves,
How to ask back and how to let go,
and how to get the sunset in my veins,
drop by drop, every day more.
And maybe some day I will learn,
to give like trees in autumn,
until my own dissolution.
Everything will eventually go away
And it will always be too soon.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (The Void That Reflects Your Beauty)
“
I cannot explain what a prayer is
but I know how to kneel down into the grass
with the fallen leaves,
how to ask back and how to let go,
and how to get the sunset in my veins,
drop by drop, every day more.
And maybe some day I will learn,
to give much more, like trees in autumn,
until my own dissolution.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (The Void That Reflects Your Beauty)
“
C10 (or the king's carolers – from student times)
on the side stairway, we gather in the evening, many
the cold cement steps welcome us
as if we were the king's carolers
we have mulled wine and dry snacks
the orange guitar stretches and warps in the candlelight
we take another drag from the cigarette, nibble on sticks and salty biscuits
happiness pricks our veins with Burmese nails
One floor below, behind the door 'Mr. Blues - Don't Disturb'
the tasty rot of jazz caresses our toes
We sin in thought, our minds dangling from the railing
later, the Serbs come to sing with us
Golden-haired like gods from a bombed country
we scratch the wall with our nails, don’t know what to say
they bring us wafers with fruits and chocolate
wrapped in green foil
the second evening we gather again on the side stairway
with the same mulled wine and dry snacks
and the same us
the old rockers hanging heavy on the guitar’s body
at the midnight office.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (Orbul de la Cină (The Blind Man at Dinner))
“
Bram Stoker’s Recipe
His peppermill mind
Ground Romanian folklore,
Dished out bloody bites.
”
”
LindaAnn LoSchiavo (Vampire Ventures: Poems)