To welcome Autumn, an all time favourite poem by Romanian Legendary Poet Nichita Stanescu. The translation is my own.
Autumn Emotion
By Nichita Stanescu
Autumn has come, cover my heart with something
With the shadow of a tree or better with your shadow
I’m afraid I will never see you again, sometimes,
That I’ll grow wings sharpened all the way to the clouds
That you will hide inside a foreign eye
And with an absinthe leaf will close itself goodbye
So then I get closer to stones and get silent,
I take the words and drown them in the sea,
Whistle the moon and rise it and pretend it
Into a great big love
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Emotie de Toamna
A venit toamna, acoperă-mi inima cu ceva,
cu umbra unui copac sau mai bine cu umbra ta.
Mă tem că n-am să te mai văd, uneori,
că or să-mi crească aripi ascuţite până la nori,
că ai să te ascunzi într-un ochi străin,
şi el o să se-nchidă cu-o frunză de pelin.
Şi-atunci mă apropii de pietre şi tac,
iau cuvintele şi le-nec în mare.
şuier luna şi o răsar şi o prefac
într-o dragoste mare.
Enjoy!
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