POEME ROMÂNESTI ÎN LIMBI STRĂINE
Ioanid ROMANESCU
Please, Reconsider My Status as a Poet !
Since my speech can be the wind that sharpens the stars
since I don’t claim to live anything for myself
since on the map of your soul I represent a blockhouse
for flowers and candour
since anybody else in my place would have died long ago
since I was born in the twentieth century
since I’ve not published all my poems yet
since I often think like someone older than myself
since I draw my personality from your originality
since I don’t show up in disguise and since my stage
is outside the theatre
since my witnesses will be born later
since my work will be complete in accordance with
the future it comprises
since instead of re-editing a noisy death
I prefer leading an ordinary life
Since I’m not going to be present again at the bullet’s
dialogue with my heart
since I belong to a people of visionaries very realistic
in the face of violence
since while I’m delivering this speech
one of the visionaries I was talking about might become
a great poet
since there still exist politicians who while plotting some wars
accuse the artists of being absurd
since in the world’s metropolises duck-gaited soldiers
and powder-bottomed generals are still compromising
Wagner’s music
since nowadays the Earth has children who no longer wish
to follow on their knees
in their parents’ footsteps
since you know exactly what I was thinking of when saying these
please, reconsider my status as a poet !
(English version: Gabriela PACHIA)