POEME ROMÂNESTI ÎN LIMBI STRĂINE

Ion MILOS

Poesia Non Muori

 

Nowadays there are in the world

Over one hundred tons

Of explosive material per person

How many milligrams of poetry are there

Asked me a colonel

Life must be defended with the guns

Not with humanistic lines

 

Nowadays a footballer costs millions of dollars

How much does a poet cost

Asked me a bank manager

We don’t give credit to poetry

God helps only the wealthy ones

 

Happy or miserable

Man dies anyway

A psychiatrist advised me

Keep on taking your pills

Tempus dolores tua delebit

 

Poesia non muori

 

(English version: Gabriela PACHIA)

 

 

 

(English version: Gabriela PACHIA)