Transylvanian Gothic
...In the shadowed mountains of Romania, horse-drawn carts travel down dirt roads. On foot, some walk through rolling hills blanketed by fog in a world that's become known for myths and legends. Darknes...
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Categories:
carpathian, gothic,
Form: Haibun
An Artist Refuge
...Slava Ukraini!
shroud the gallery's glass doors,
a solitary scene of grazing goats,
greets the guests along with music.
Confident, brush strokes curl muted
colors of rustic farm houses
behind b...
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Categories:
carpathian, art, war, world,
Form: Free verse
My boots, still burdened with the dust of Carpathian trails
...My boots, still burdened with the dust of Carpathian trails,
Silently slip over the gleaming tiles of an urban temple,
Where hipsters sip artisanal nectar on lazy Tuesday afternoons,
Under the imp...
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Categories:
carpathian, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Motion Practice
...Seven Morning Stars
In the western Carpathian piedmont
Which my grandfathers left long before,
The peregrine falcon flees likewise
From a tableau of fresco tradition,
Superstition, and tempera...
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Categories:
carpathian, allegory, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
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Categories:
carpathian, allegory, society,
Form: List
Seeking Labyrinthia
...I have fashioned my desire from Carpathian obsessions,
Indulging in the calm between extremes.
It’s a blood and iron promise that sets my soul alight,
Embarked upon a pilgrimage of dreams.
Stand...
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Categories:
carpathian, adventure, allegory, love hurts,
Form: Lyric
Carpathian Ridge
...all we do is talk about the weather
in our own cellar language
and I want to accept
the truism of your perceptions
mainly to untangle the plot
but I ponder through seasons of augury
the inte...
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Categories:
carpathian, metaphor, philosophy, surreal, universe,
Form: Free verse
Fertility Marred With Miscarriages
...The fattest land mass within the borders of Europe
is also a mother with an extremely fertile womb
to once go third in the global grain export.
Sitting on a ground blessed with hidden trea...
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Categories:
carpathian, abuse, bullying, earth, education,
Form: Ode
Dracula Castle
...( I visited the palace of Dracula in the year 2003 while attending The World Congress of Poets)at Iasi, Romania. If anyone interested to view Dracula Castle, I have placed a photo on my photo blog)
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Categories:
carpathian, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Un-Dead
...At the Borgo Pass I met a coach and horse,
And the villagers warned me not to go,
They were worried about a supernatural force,
But I had business in Transylvania, though.
The coach rumbled along th...
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Categories:
carpathian, fantasy, horror, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Carpathian Curse
...The light of the moon serves as source
For my once beating heart, now still
As I wander the lonely corridors of time
Eternal, to grip my breathless, lifeless chest
Each day’s a seductress, but su...
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Categories:
carpathian, angst, holidaymoon,
Form: Free verse