Best Romania Poems

Romanus country
Romania to us
Iron curtain frontier
Dismantled by fuss
 
Like us all invaded
But by Goths and the Huns
Typical past history
Populations on the run
The Ottoman Empire, absorbed their souls
A free Romania the ultimate goal
 
Modern Romania has had its fears
The first world war
In neutrality gear
But by 1916,...

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I told you long ago that this land called "Romania" has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams.
For 35 years, we've been walking the thin line of memories, on the debts left by those shaped under Ceau?escu,
but they are slowly retreating to the quiet pensions...

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I never talked about the rooms
of orphans languishing in beds -
still corridors, like wombs,
that darkened pictures in our heads,
escorting us through tombs. 

No unseeing their hopeless eyes,
tied in their cribs, such tiny souls - 
and eerily, no cries.
Ceausescu's children paid their tolls
amidst the buzzing flies.

I...

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Her steps were magic
She seemed to be flying
Her hair spun out
As did her scarves

Her ankle screamed for attention
She was flowing, like a faerie
I was enthralled and amazed
No words could explain what I was seeing

I doubted that I could capture it on video
It was the most...

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I told you long ago that this land called "Romania" has exhausted its sources of blood and dreams.
For 35 years, we've been walking the thin line of memories, on the debts left by those shaped under Ceau?escu,
but they are slowly retreating to the quiet pensions...

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In a Romania of shadows, where the dream crumbled under the weight of history,
Under the leaden sky, our hopes broke and departed in silence,
A nation mourns its soul with tears hidden deep within its being,
Searching for a thread of light among hopes vanquished by time.
The...

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