Poetry: Iulia Gherghei

Iulia Gherghei

How to describe an angel

You could tell that she was a beautiful woman

You could still tell that she was a beautiful woman

A sweet surrender was bending her smile

Her stare was so warm, so cuddly still

Lines crossing lines

A map drawn on her face

Put her beauty between brackets 

Yeah, you could still see her beauty shining 

Her generous smile, her courage were contagious 

Not in the sense of a plague, but you know.. 

She would light up the place no matter how gloomy it was

And maybe she wasn't even that pretty

We were all absorbed by her angelic posture 

Bedazzled, transfixed by her aura 

Stripped of our troubles entirely 

Lighter and suddenly joyfull

***

Fall, only fall

Rain, insidios rain

Cannibal rain

Impoverishing rain

Droplets, tormenting droplets

Ledges, drums for the droplets

Punishment for the eardrums 

Droplets 

Fall, only fall

Fallen leaves, pavements soaked

Drenched in leaves

Putrid leaves

Puddles bitting at our shoes

Puddles sipping the whole army of clouds 

Puddles

Rain, more rain, only rain 

Women growing sad, their wrinkles follow the droplets' pattern on the sheet of  the glass

Their lives grow roots that meet the trees' roots under pavements

Women

Knots germinating

Brewing new seasons

Knots

But for now

Rain, insidios rain

Cannibal rain

Neauseating rain

Breaking knees rain

***

No, no longer a god!

I am a cloud, he said

Lavishingly spreading his glee on my windows

No, you are not

I frown and mumble in my chin

You, sir, are a figment of my imagination

Be true to yourself, dear

Your jealousy might change my mood

From fluffy, feathery white I might turn to dark stormy, lighting spitting in a blink of an eye

If I say I am a cloud, then, goddammit

I am

I have all the features

The grace, the plump form, the easiness to glide on the open blue sky

I can smile as easily I can thunder my curses through my lashes

I definitely spy on you every chance I get

No, no longer I am a god

From now on

you all will treat me as a passing cloud

A midsummer innocent cloud

A light prayer to a merciful sky

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Bio: Iulia Gherghei, Romanian poet of English expression, graduated from University of Bucharest as information technology expert, has published her first poetry collection in 2012 at blurb.com. Prisoners of Cinema Paradiso was edited by Brian Wrixon. She mainly publish her poems on Facebook. She was also published in many e-zines or poetry sites like Destiny Poets, where she received the honour to be chosen Poet of the year in 2013. In 2015 she won the poetry contest of the Blackwater Poetry group on Facebook. She was part of many anthologies, one of them being The Significant Anthology , anthology edited by Koshy A V and Reena Prasad. 

In 2020 some of her poems were translated in Turkish by Baki Yiğit in several Turkish literary magazines. 

Also starting the same year she has her own author page on MadSwirl.com site.

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Setu, June 2022