Raindrops on a Dragonfly's Wing

"Early Spring, Late Winter"

2010-03-09T14:02:00.000-08:00

Snowflakes in spring.
An open book,
Frozen tears.
*
An orange peeled off
There, on the table,
Do angels ever smile?
*
Black cat sleeping.
Green eyes,
Time growing old.
*
You and me.
Me and you,
A story never written.

"Spring"

2009-04-04T00:23:00.000-07:00

Red tulips
In a vase
Spring twilight.

"Red Dragonfly"

2009-02-04T01:44:00.000-08:00

A red dragonfly in the air.
Sun is burning
The flesh of those
That died in worthless battles.

Winter is slowly dying
With every snowflake
That falls nowhere.

An ordinary day
With sun shining in the sky.
I forgot who I am.

"Winter"

2008-12-08T00:34:00.000-08:00

Full moon on winter sky.
Your memory
has left me with a bitter taste.
The cold is overwhelming.

Snow-flakes into the air
falling incessantly from a yellow sky.
My heart is dead.

A cat is sleeping.
Winter rain.
I am not waiting for you anymore.

"Full Moon"

2008-08-20T02:26:00.000-07:00

Full moon on summer night
you left me here in the dark.
I hate stars that are dying.

Silence is like blood
Invisible,
Until it bursts out.

Moon shining in a summer sky
Hot air and dragonflies
Smell of death.

"Spring Rain"

2008-04-18T13:32:00.000-07:00

Rain gently falling,
My heart in pain.
Spring umbrellas in the street.

Away a crane
Is flying.
My heart has only memories.

"Picături de rouă"/"Dewdrops"

2007-12-29T16:39:00.001-08:00

Picături de rouă
pe o frunză de lotus.
Lacrimile lunii.

Pelerini trişti
La porţile lumii.
Babilu-Poarta lui Dumnezeu.

Dewdrops
On a lotus leaf.
Tears of the moon.

Sad pilgrims
At gates of world.
Babilu-The Gate of God.

"Umbre/Shadows"

2007-10-23T23:05:00.000-07:00

În liniştea nopţii
doar zgomotul amintirilor.
Toamnă.

Into the stillness of night
only the sound of memories.
Autumn.

*

Picături de ploaie
pe o frunză de arţar.
Roşu dureros.

Raindrops
on a maple leaf.
Painful crimson.

*

Răsărit de lună
deasupra oraşului.
Umbre.

A moon rising
over the city.
Shadows.

"June"

2007-06-03T00:51:00.000-07:00

“June”

A night butterfly and a yellow moon
Over the world.
Despair.

It is raining and nothing troubles
The silence of time.
Somewhere, so far away from me-you

A white rose covered by dew
In the morning light.
Illusion.

"Falling Leaves"

2006-12-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

In the morning air
Smoke and mist,
Burned leaves-autumn is over.

*
Silence dropping
On my soul,
Autumn dream.

*
Once a poet
Watching the moon
Cried for his dead love.

"Words like Raindrops"

2006-11-27T17:06:00.000-08:00

“Words like Raindrops”

Raindrops on a maple leaf,
Coldness in my heart.
The ravens silently fly
Into the air of night.

*

The city by night,
Thousands of lights,
But only a solitary star
On the dark sky.

*

The night mist
Cast over the trees.
Silence is building
A bridge across my heart.

"Autumn Feelings"

2006-10-31T18:20:00.000-08:00

“Autumn Feelings”

Nothing troubles
The passing of time.
Only the soul, lonely
And sad still has hope.

*

Is raining and the sky
Looks bleak on the horizon.
The storm forthcoming
Brings cold breath of winter.

*

The cranes fly over the fields
While the morning sun
Rises on a crimson sky.
My soul is slashed.

*

A white chrysanthemum
Glowing in the morning light.
Fog covers gradually
The garden.

"Poems"

2006-10-04T18:37:00.000-07:00

I look at you,
I touch you,
I can feel you
And yet
we are so far away
from each other…

*

Yellow leaves are falling,
and floating quietly in the air.
I see myself reflected in your eyes,
like never before…

"Septembrie Târziu"/ "Late September"

2006-09-22T23:21:00.000-07:00

“Septembrie târziu”

Septembrie târziu şi ploaia
îmi bate în geam.
Frunze galbene plutesc
în aerul rece,
Iar eu, eu privesc materia
Descompunându-se
în timpul absent.
O altă toamnă,
Un alt timp,
Corbii zboară
Profilaţi pe cerul de plumb,
Nu te mai aştept,
Am încetat să te mai aştept,
Iubire.
Acum,
doar ploaia bătând
în geam…

“Late September”

Late September and the rain
is tapping on my window.
Yellow leaves are floating
into the cold air,
And I, I am watching the matter
Decomposing
into the absent air.
Another fall,
Another time,
The ravens fly
Against the lead sky,
I’m not waiting anymore for you,
I stopped waiting long ago,
For you, Love.
Now,
only the rain tapping
on my window…

"I Thought..."

2006-09-09T14:00:00.000-07:00

I thought happiness
Can be counted
In raindrops
And in petals of cherry flowers
Which fall from the cherry trees,
When the spring wind blows.

I thought happiness
Are the stars in a summer night,
When hot air
Touches my skin
And moon is hanging in the sky.

I thought happiness
Are your soft kisses,
The face of you, your voice,
The heat of your body,
The sound of your footsteps, deep
Into the night.

I thought.
The moments now gone,
Made all clear,
With a terrifying clarity.
Now I simply know
Happiness is only a delusion.

"Credeam..."

2006-09-08T17:18:00.000-07:00

Credeam că fericirea
se numără în picături
de ploaie,
şi în petale albe de cireşi,
scuturate de vântul pribeag.

Credeam că fericirea
sunt stelele dintr-o noapte de vară,
când aerul fierbinte
îmi atinge pielea
şi luna e pe cer.

Credeam că fericirea
sunt sărutările tale,
chipul tău, vocea ta,
căldura trupului tău,
sunetul paşilor tăi în noapte.

Credeam.
Clipele ce au trecut,
au limpezit totul,
cu o claritate de coşmar.
Acum ştiu că fericirea e doar o iluzie.

"POEMS WITHOUT TITLE"

2006-09-02T21:30:00.000-07:00

“Poems without Title”

Plouă lent peste oraş,
Noaptea se lasă
cu un cer galben,
Plouă şi în aer
se simte venirea toamnei.

Is slowly raining over the town,
And night is falling
with a yellow sky,
Is raining now and in the air
I can sense the fall is coming.

*

În roua dimineţii,
Toate visele nopţii
s-au dizolvat.
încă mai simt
Căldura trupului tău.

In the morning dew,
All the night’s dreams
have faded away.
I can still feel
The warmness of your body.

*

Un fluture roşu
Zboară indiferent
Prin oraşul gri.
Oamenii trec,
Cu priviri absente,
Nimeni nu vede,
Nimeni nu admiră,
Un fluture roşu,
Incredibil de roşu,
În oraşul trist.

A red butterfly
Indifferently flies
Through the grey city.
People passing by,
With absent eyes,
Nobody sees,
Nobody admires,
A red butterfly,
Amazingly red,
Through the sad city.

*

Plouă şi aud bătăile inimii tale,
În clipa prezentă, ce se întinde
În multe alte clipe, la nesfârşit.

Is raining and I hear your heartbeats,
In this near moment, which expands
In many other moments, incessantly.

Tăcere/Silence

2006-08-16T00:06:00.000-07:00

”Tăcere”

Tăcerea fluturilor,
În zborul lor nocturn,
Tăcerea îngerilor,
În neclintirea lor indiferentă,
Tăcerea inimii,
În absenţa iubirii.
Deodată furtuna izbucneşte,
Iar ploaia vine, alungând tăcerea.
Dar oare ploaia nu este ea
O alta formă a tăcerii?
Tăcerea infinitului…

“Silence”

The silence of the butterflies,
In their nocturnal flight,
The silence of angels,
In their indifferent stillness,
The silence of the heart,
In the absence of love.
Suddenly the storm is coming
And the rain driving away the silence.
But isn’t the rain itself
Another form of silence?
The silence of the infinity…

Vis de copil/A Child's Dream

2006-08-15T23:17:00.000-07:00

“Vis de copil”

Între ramurile copacului
profilat pe cerul negru,
O lună portocalie şi rotundă,
Ca o portocală imensă,
Stă agăţată,
Ca într-un vis de copil.
Efemeră fericire...

”A Child's Dream”

Between the branches of the tree
Profiled against the dark sky,
An orange moon, perfectly round,
Like an enormous orange fruit,
Is hanging,
As in a child's dream.
Ephemeral beauty...

Nemişcare/Stillness

2006-08-08T04:45:00.000-07:00

"Nemişcare"

Pe câmpia verde,
Floarea soarelui luceşte stins
În lumina palidă a dimineţii.
Undeva, departe, o pasăre cântă.

"Stillness"

In the green field,
Sunflowers are merely contoured
Into the pale light of the morning.
Somewhere, farther away, a bird is singing.

(C)2006 O.Flory

Picături de ploaie/Raindrops

2006-08-06T09:19:00.000-07:00

"Plouă"

Ploaia cade din cerul negru
Şi nici un alt zgomot
nu se mai aude.
Toate florile s-au scuturat.

"Rain"

Rain is falling from the black sky
And no other noise
is heard.
All the flowers are now gone.

(C)2006 O. Flory