words create worlds
I finally found out the mysterious reason behind the so many views of “My pregnant heart” poem!
I finally discovered that this particular words’ association is found in one of the Dante’s Divine Comedy translations into English and, the most important of all, is that Prof. Jiang has been teaching Dante for a few years now, especially to Chinese students, but not only to them!
Sentimental story Then we met more often. I stood at one side of the hour, you at the other, like two handles of an amphora. Only the words flew between us, back and forth. You could almost see their swirling, and suddenly, I would lower a knee, and touch my elbow to the ground to
I wish you could have comprehended the light that crosses our conjoined veins I wish you could have felt its music, the magic chords of harmony we sought. I wish you could have known that words can only keep us far, aloft… I wish you could have heard the tears embedded in my silence.
A poem from „Parentheses”, which is a work in progress, still. ;) Yet, I’ve included some of the English poems in „Memories” („amintiri”), my latest Romanian book that has been published in July. Illustrations and cover for Parentheses by Jade Ene.
Worlds of Words 