Dumitru CERNA   

*
The snow feels weary
with lying on the flimsy roof
of mankind

*
my childhood
agonizes

*
silence wet
as the eyes of the people in love
in the full moon
Resurrection tremble

*
pyre burning in the skies
steam sprouted in the ground
of the graves
Our Lord asks advice
of the poets

*
fortunes rust
like the palm of the chestnut leaf
in november
the word alone
like the mind of a pharaoh
turns into spirit

*
total eclipse
of the moon
another poet
has passed away

*
the agony of the maidens
crucified
the magnolia fades away
watched over
by the moon

*
like the nail into the flesh
the word is grafted upon
the poet
and hurts him

*
crocodile eggs
in the mankind’s nests
life and danger
have sprouted

*
we bear our rolling
like snails like tortoises
like pumpkins
Golgotha smiles

*
 
the hail falls down
on mankind
God’s prayers
are still

*
magnolia scion
united with the rotten body
of mankind
restless poem
*
spring
a sour crack
in the built-in heart
of a woman

*
the magnolia
is in blossom
 the last ritual
of mercy
     
        From the volume Poeme Translucide / Translucent,
 Atlas-Clusium Publishing House, 1996, Cluj-Napoca
               
English version by Olimpia Iacob