NADIA- CELLA POP

NADIA-

CELLA POP

Image In The Twilight

Let the tear of my dawn

To halt on your awakening.

In the white of a non-existence

The scorching loneliness

Strangles me as a punishment.

The twilight has your image,

Sick and heretical,

The treasure of a sad touch.

All the sounds seem to me a bazaar

Of naive concoctions,

A late aquisition,

Of the dream haunted by the dream.

The mirror of the rebel laughter

Announces me that the game is over,

into a harsh metaphysics

That amazes and smothers me.

I still want to remain

Just a feather

That flies with the breeze,

When,in my soaring,I ask a favor:

Let the tear of my dawn

To halt on your awakening.

 (TRANSLATED BY DRAGOŞ BARBU)

CHIP ÎN ASFINŢIRE

Lasă-mi lacrima zorilor

să poposească pe trezirea ta.

În albul nefiinţei,

mistuitoarea singurătate

mă sugrumă ca o pedeapsă.

Asfinţirea are chipul tău

bolnav sau eretic,

comoară a tristei atingeri.

Toate sunetele îmi par un bâlci

al închipuirilor naive,

o achiziţie tardivă

a visului flagelat de vise.

Oglinda râsului rebel

îmi spune că jocul s-a isprăvit

într-o metafizică aspră

ce mă uimeşte,mă înăbuşă.

Vreau să rămân însă

fulgul dus de briză

când,plutind,te rog:

Lasă-mi lacrima zorilor

să poposească pe trezirea ta.

NADIA-CELLA POP

The Shore Of Wilderness

                   

In the wilderness of thistles

The hope is smothered by roughness.

The wolves have laws of the pack

That never want to change this world.

In the whistling of the wind,

There are doubts and renunciations,

There are passions and battles,

Searchings and waste.

I need the shore of wilderness,

As much I need the field of freedom,

The desire for a primordial touch

And universal creation.

TRANSLATED BY DRAGOŞ BARBU

    ŢĂRMUL SĂLBĂTICIUNILOR

În sălbăticia mărăcinilor

nădejdea e sugrumată de asprime.

Fiarele au legi de haită

ce nu vor să schimbe lumea.

În şuierul vântului

sunt îndoieli şi renunţări,

sunt patimi şi lupte,

căutări şi risipă.

Vreau ţărmul sălbăticiunilor

ca pe-un ogor al libertăţii,

al dorinţei de primordial,

şi-al creaţiei totale.

NADIA-CELLA POP

My Dome

 

In my dome

Question marks stand

As stormtroopers ready

For marauders like you.

In fact,they defend me

From the answers

I wish to find

Because they are uttered

As a common and stupid

Crash

Wherein only

The end wins.

After that

There is a question

Still to come:

”Why?”

TRANSLATED BY DRAGOŞ BARBU

DOMUL MEU

În domul meu

stau semne de-ntrebare

ostaşi solemni

pentru intruşi ca tine.

De fapt,ei mă apără

de răspunsurile

pe care la doresc.

Căci ele se rostesc

precum un accident banal

şi stupid

în care numai

sfârşitul învinge.

După el mai urmează totuşi

o întrebare:

„De ce?” 

NADIA-CELLA POP

There’ll Come A Time

There’ll come a time

When,watching the ashes of our own memories

We will show just a sympathetic smile

To all our vagaries and failures.

We will listen the symphony of sincerity,

The flight of all the days and nights

And these will be the same like our expectations.

With a withered smile on our faces

We will browse imaginary letters,

Sliding down to the arcanum’s world

Of burning embers and ice,

Of former and future victories.

                            There’ll come a time

                            When the words will die,

                            Replaced by our

                            Guilt-ridden delight

                            To return the same,

                            On the trail of our years.

TRANSLATED BY DRAGOŞ BARBU

VA VENI O VREME

Va veni o vreme

când privind cenuşa amintirilor

vom zâmbi înţelegători

capriciilor şi eşecurilor.

Vom asculta simfonia sincerităţii,

zborul zilelor şi nopţilor

şi ne vom contopi cu aşteptările.

Cu zâmbet ofilit

vom răsfoi scrisori imaginare,

alunecând într-o lume secretă

de jăratec şi gheaţă,

de foste şi viitoare împliniri.

                      Va veni o vreme.

                      când cuvintele vor muri,

                      lăsând locul bucuriei vinovate

                      de a ne întoarce aceiaşi

                      pe drumul anilor noştri.

NADIA-CELLA POP

NADIA- CELLA POP

NADIA-CELLA POP ,a prominent Romanian poetess. The most internationally awarded author in contemporary Romania. Born in Ariuşd,March 13,1948, she lives in Braşov.Master of Arts in Philosophy, ”Babeş-Bolyai”University, Cluj,1 973. Nadia-Cella Pop had published her first poems in France, 1980, in the poetry journal ”Presence” from Bordeaux. Her poems were also published in more than 70 popular journals and magazines edited in France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Luxemburg, USA, Australia, Canada, India, China, Greece, Serbia, Brazil, Venezuela, Malta,Spain, Canaryslands, Poland, Cyprus, Ukraine, UK (more than 400 issues). Her works are also included in 39 international anthologies edited in France, Italy, Luxemburg, Australia, India, Mongolia Albania, Lebanon, China, Romania. Many of Nadia’s poems were translated into 20 languages: French, English, Greek, German, Polish, Chinese, Arabian, Russian, Portuguese, Bengali, Breton-Armoricain, Macedo-Romanian, Maltese, Esperanto, Spanish, Magyar,I talian, Albanian, Mongolian, Serbian. Nadia-Cella Pop had received 173 international literary awards for her poetry to date, in many countries: France, Italy, China, Belgium, Australia, Luxemburg, Germany, USA( only two in Romania). She published eight poetry books so far (two multilingual, ”The Lordship of the Word” and” Shipwrecks Delayed” with poems translated into 13 and 16 languages,one in English, ”Avalanche over Impossible”, translated by Dragoş Barbu). Four books in Romanian. Nadia’s academic honors are :Professor Honoris Causa, Int’l Academy of St.Lukas, Germany and Academical Knight,Int’l Academy of Greci-Marino,Academical Order of Verbano, Italy. In 1990 Nadia-Cella Pop has become Honorary Citizen of Saint Etienne City,France. In June 2017,a ”Best of Nadia-Cella Pop poetry collection” entitled ”Poezii” (Poems) was presented to the public.The book was entirely sponsored by His Excellency the Vice-President of the National Academy of Romania.