l’amor avec Françoise

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… when I arrived at the Palace Royale she was standing bashfully in a corner, looking gorgeous but so natural at the same time. I had seen her before, but never laying naked on the scene, alone, and never so close to really get to touch her. at his sign she was invited to dance with the lyrics… what a stature, what smooth skin, what silky hair and what beautiful neck… she seemed twice alive like a woman in love. but above all she was the goddess of the night. I myself, like everyone around us, was mesmerized with her worm, peaceful voice…her name is, as I was going to find out later from the lips of her lover, Françoise...

the covenant sign

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"I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

Genesis 9:13-17

*picture published with compliments of Mr. Radu Ion

the sea of sunset

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This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western mystery!

Night after night her purple traffic
Strews the landing with opal bales;
Merchantmen poise upon horizons,
Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.

Emily Dickinson. Poems, Series 1. XII The Sea of Sunset

hall of pain

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we found the Big Synagogue (Sinagoga Mare) hidden between Ceausescu's famous communist block of flats, or, as I like it to call them, little, crowded, box of matches.. anyway, even if there's still some church activity now and then, the Big Synagogue runs like a museum in the honor of the Jewish slaughter from World War Two, slaughter that didn't avoid the Jews establish in Romania..

among the vivid lights, thousands of documents, name or unnamed corps, faces of pain and faces of evil and, I admit, also a drop of good marketing.. i saw the fallowing poetry, written by a Jewish writer that did survive the Mannheim.. though simple, her words sink deep into my conscience..

"i wish to live oh so many summers

to laugh and willingly carry my burdens.

i wish to fight, to hate, to love

to hold the sky with my bear hands, high above

and free to be, to breathe, to shout

but still I wouldn't want to die. no. no.."

* the translation may have cause some loses