POEME ROMÂNESTI ÎN LIMBI STRĂINE

Vasile TĂRÂTEANU

 

Dialogue

 

“What are you doing ?”

„Can’t you see ?

I’m working :

I’m shaking the dew

down from the flowers

in the morning

and I wash with it

the wound left by the star,

by the word,

by the Earth

and I’m singing –

like a bird.”

 

“How are you getting on ?”

„Nice of you to ask !

Like the sun beam

when it pierces

the clouds,

the fortress

walls

like the ploughed field

in spring

like the leaf,

like the heart’s desire...”

 

And I revive from faith

the wonderful wish

from times

of yore,

the ancient matchless pray,

“May God help us !”

 

(English version: Gabriela PACHIA)