POEME ROMÂNESTI ÎN LIMBI STRĂINE

Alexandru A. PHILIPPIDE

 

Dream and Aspiration

 

“Don’t you feel tired of roaming among stars,

Since they are, as some say,

Billions of light years away,

Even though your flight might be

On the wings of cosmo-fantasy ?”

“There lies the aim of lofty poetry.”

 

“What’s lofty poetry ? It is but empty talk

To charm us into delusion as if under a lock ;

A convenient word to cover what we fail to know.

We’d better come back down to Earth and fly low

And, leaving aside the voyage into the space,

We’d better be like Candid and till our flowery place,

Allowing our imagination to measure

The ever-moving illusion

Of long voyages viewed as such :

We dream of aims that we can never touch...

And here it might happen to be

The long-awaited lofty poetry,

The eternal temptation –

Since everything’s but dream and aspiration.”

 

(English version: Gabriela PACHIA)