Poems by Ramona L. Ceciu

Poems by Ramona L. Ceciu

Pistachios

If people were as good as pistachios

They would be under threat…

That is why people are not as good as pistachios…

So that no one and nothing would digest them…

Like pistachios…

Cats might want to eat them pistachios, or people…

Throwing them at your window would make no sense,

Pistachios would break

but the window closed would remain …

for there are millions of windows

within the same windowpane…

shut… you do not need to see the world anymore,

for you have decided that you know it all…

Assumptions totemised as truths

scribbled on the window towards world…

and you, with your pistachios, only yours,

stuck away from all because you know

the other cats don’t like pistachios…

you know them all…

When you have finished, you may ask them stupid cats –

yet cats that you KNOW:

“I HOPE YOU DIDN’T WANT ANY PISTACHIOS!”…

(read: I know you didn’t want any pistachios)

and throw the empty shells by the window

to those who don’t want to be as good as pistachios…

The Human Monument of Pain

The seconds of love get entangled

Timidly within the whirlpool of infinity…

The echoes of life resound shyly

Within the chasm of ethereal existence...

From all the shattered loves of flesh

Some ashes, left in Time’s fireplace,

Were dispelled by ‘S/HE’ while angry

To see so many fecund creatures

Lurking around with a choked soul –

Metamorphoses of some naked dreams,

Devoid of reason or feelings,

Only abandoned to passion…

They fall into oblivion – the seconds of love –

Like white magnolias dying

At the hand of a jealous gale…

Only death turns the saddening passion

In bliss and freedom from the worldly dungeon…

The vain loves of the body

Are carved in the Monument of Pain…

Ramona L. Ceciu (Romanian) has been Indian resident for about eight and a half years now. She is a PhD researcher in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, undertaking an interdisciplinary research in contemporary Indian literature and visual arts. Up to present she has published writings in Romanian and English languages. Apart from writing, she is involved in different projects as a freelance translator, independent filmmaker, photographer, music composer and vocalist trained in varied music styles (Indian and Western). In all creative projects, she explores different styles, genres and ideas in an experimental fashion and multicultural–multilingual dynamic.

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