Dorin Popa
(Romania)
Dr. Dorin Popa
is Professor of Journalism & Communication Sciences - at University
"Al. I. Cuza", Iasi, Rumania. He did his B.A. in physics in 1984 and post-universitary
studies of journalism, with the disertation "Media about the politology in
Romania after '89 " in 1994 - 1996 After doing M.A. in Journalism he did
Ph.D. in Letters.
He is member of (i)
AZR -The Association of Romanian Journalists (ii) USR - The Association of
Romanian Writers (iii) PEN - Club (iv) IFLAC ( ISRAEL, Haifa),
president for Romania (v) Amnesty International (vi) AC - Civic
Alliance (vii) Member of the Romanian-American Academy (viii)
President of the XXIInd World Congress of Poets held under the auspices of
the World Academy of Arts and Culture, in IASI, ROMANIA, 2002 |
Selected Poems by Dorin Popa
ANSIEDAD your unsteady feet, with indefinite faltering forms have built defiant columns inside me you come to me on the arm of a stranger and your nights of love are my nights when I first met you you were wearing the sign I expected you were wearing in wonder that sign through which, once I united myself with you irritated, you put me at the pillory but your eyes, all in tears, were surreptitiously calling me softly and mixtured they talked to me and I was thrilled to hear that, suddenly, someone inside me was rejecting you someone angry, frightened, dispossessed that same night I saw how the hand which was rejecting you touched you and the mouth cursing you, wanted to taste you later, much later I' ll hide myself from you in your arms |
YOUR PROFOUND LOST LOOK Your failures show me the perfection that you will always be I am a boat, the skin of a nut on the ocean of your panting agitated breath and you, hardly knowing that I exist unconsciously command me what I should dream, what I should smell what I should not touch your lost mocry profound look is the path on which I meekly step with trust your deep look in tears is the most precious reality this sorrowful October end your look wandering about all the places, suddenly turned my face away from the picture of the decaying world and your delicate heartbreaking steps seem to write a new history your failures show me the perfection you will always be |
HARDLY HAD I LEFT THE HOUSE when, all of a sudden, implacable all the doors closed hermetically exactly when I was about to leave this house this life this death oh, so many things are to be done when nothing is left to be done but the belief that you will finally come tired me so much! and if you come and if you don' t come in vain are my ships that I' ll start building tomorrow morning hardly had I left this house this life when a trembling voice murmured that my few talants are the last talants of the world. |
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ANYBODY so many times I had absurd claims I thought my soul was a perfect radar for your steps, your breath your weeping with ardour and love we could finally reach in peace the other' s skin if we didn' t discover with disappointment that we are the prisoners of our epidermis and your singing, and your weeping, and your look the emotions, the incomparison and your dreams all of them are mine for ever among tears, crying, I hold you hopelessly I embrace you like I' ll never embrace you again you exist in me deeper than in your heart and shaken, I whisper to you from a distance - nobody has ever understood anybody ! |
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL I wasn' t finding you anywhere - you were everywhere I wasn' t meeting you anywhere - you were meeting me I was trying to detach neatly my things from anybody else' s and late I learnt that I was living for you and through you I had come down from adolescence with a guilty look I was pallidly dreaming elopements in Seraglio I wasn' t meeting myself anylonger - you were meeting me ! |
A LATE HURRIED FORBIDDEN SEPARATION Never are you too hurt to bear (stand) another blow in the autumn failures seem to increase bad news come from everywhere I hear again that my life passes in vain and everything that belongs to me is shattered far away, too far away suddenly, nothing shelters me anymore nothing covers me protectively I was hiding myself behind hazy walls of air the wings and the words are dispersed now and memories wan' t to come nearer, either much poorer than the first time I don' t dare to hold out my hand here I' ve learnt that many things are forbidden to me that I can' t touch anything without being punished that I have been circling an immense emptiness for a long time I don't try to escape anymore - where could I go ? in front of the dull crumbling I stand seduced a dog barks at the leaves that fall down happily and I can' t remember anything to protect me I can' t see but my guilt covering me no matter how low I fell, today I' ve learnt that I can fall even lower - deep as the sky is the soul |