by Constantin Severin
- a solo nijuin renku -
English version by Liviu Martinescu
the first butterfly
erupting crater
or sap at work in the grove
a mountain sprig on fire
two irises in bloom
the flames of those feathers
illuminate the cup
of our last tea
the book as well as the candle
transgress reality
winter moon
a spark of burning ice
over things from the past
from the depths of the mirror
render me this person to the snow
in your absence
moths swirl round
my eyesight
the spurt of o symphony
advancing in a mass of wax
sacred scarabaeous
that can only survive
by devouring itself
how the passage of thoughts
through the lamp bulb can hurt
two suns for one town
in a subterranean star
space is no more
how the rainbow soaks up
the light of angels
giving the wheel a spin
I could see against the spikes
her dreamlike face
the silence of the falling leaf
on sizziling shoulders
sun-flooded gate
the moon bouncing off
every blessed chestnut
when autumn comes the form takes off
to the world of my other self
the blind musician
warming his hands
the red tulips
I will only be able to play
during that hour the clock utterly lacks
home again
the wild rose
curls round the guitar
May wind dilating the fire
after the light had its chance
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Constantin Severin was born on the 8th of February 1952, in Baia de Arama, Romania., He is a writer, member of the Romanian Writers’ Union, represented by Your Agent Agency, Oslo and a visual artist, member of the International Art Group, 3rd Paradigm., He is the theorist and promoter of archetypal expressionism and of post –literature. Honorary citizen of his birthtown, Baia de Aramă, Mehedinţi, Romania, in May 2011., Poetry Works:, ‘’The Sunday of Things Real” (poetry), Junimea Publishing House, Iasi, Romania, 1984;, ”Wall and Neutrino” (poetry, bilingual edition-Romanian/English, translated by Liviu Martinescu), Vlasie Publishing House, Pitesti, Romania, 1994; the poem won The Bucovina Cultural Foundation Award;, ”Wall and Neutrino. The Poet in New York”, Minerva Publishing House, London, 1997; translation by Liviu Martinescu;, ”Improvisations on armonic key” (poetry), Axa Publishing House, Botosani, Romania, 1998;, ”The Axolotl” (poetry), Masina de Scris Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998; the first renga (renku) book in the Romanian literature, bilingual edition-Romanian/English, translation by Liviu Martinescu; the Bucovina Cultural Foundation Prize, 1999;, ”The Alchemical City” (selected poems), Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2002; the Bucovina Cultural Foundation Prize, 2003;, ”Improvisations on armonic key” (poetry, Opera Omnia), Tipo Moldova publishing house, Iasi, 2011. More info:, http://constantinseverin.wordpress.com/
Last updated September 25, 2011