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Ivan Timeea


Ivan Timeea is a seventeen - year -old poet from Romania. Most of her poems have been published on most appreciated and impressive sites and also in most impressive magazines ( *ECreator*, *The Poetry House*, *A Thousand of Signs*,*The Banquet*, the magazine *13 Plus*, *PoetikS*, *The Big Romania*, *The Flame of Adrian Păunescu*). Four of her poems have been published in the anthology, * The Word of LOVE, The love of WORD*. She formed an editorial staff for the magazine * Timpul Blăjean* and is the adjunct co-ordonator in her city, this magazine being a local one, an extension from the country magazine *The Time*.




He Was Born And He Died

he was born and he

died somewhere sometime once in a place where

not many people knew that he

was or for how long he

was there a man died a

man died a person

died a human being

died he died he

seemed an ordinary man with a

recognizable face

someone who

ate slept woke wrote an

ordinary man a man he

seemed a man a

figure so human that

that it looked like the

the romanian language teacher from an

ordinary school not a

private one no

the private schools do not have

romanian language teachers with

faces so human so

he looked like the the romanian language teacher from an

ordinary school which always spoke about a man just as

ordinary as him an

ordinary man a man

from a place I do not know which place I have not

been there before and even if I

had I still would not have met him

he is just a man a

man and he was born and died

died of syphilis

then because of a blow to the head

right to the head and then because of

precocious atherosclerosis he died so

many times

he was murdered by so many

he was a

man an ordinary man

he was born and died but he still

treads through

through through

through

woods I do not know what

woods and he

speaks with trees

and it is still

said that he is

a lunatic in love a

lunatic that

that walks to fetch

half of a bread to

the grocery shop at the

end of the street

the poet


Translated by Cristiana Petruța

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