A
Reason Enough
God
took off the mask
revealing
the sting of a bee
Perfection
is not allowed even in paradise
A
reason enough
to
give the night all my dreams
of
wild manes, of the heaths and the cliffs
For
some time
I’ll
trap rats with cheese wheels
in
cellars where horror stories are written
but
first, let me seize bullets in flight through
the
screen, and break all the arrows
flung
in the blood of naifs
If Time Is Ours
If
Time is ours
ours
are the pleasures
ours
are the struggles
ours
are the heartbeats
for
us, from the others
Ours
are the glances
those
glances we capture
in
the eye’s golden flecks
in
the grains of sand
of
us, human hourglasses
In
electric nights
let
us not pine away
before
the liquid crystals
beneath
the moon in fever
that
knows all our secrets
If
Time is ours
then
let us release the stars
from
our grasp
and
take instead
the
bull by its horns
or
the reins in hand
and
a deep breath let’s take!
History
There
are stories about people dancing
and crying in the street,
stories about bread bought with cash and fists,
stories
about entirety
and
about things that are split,
stories
of crimson rivers staining everything.
It's
all history and must not be forgotten.
Mihaela Melnic is the author of the bilingual poetry collection Change of Seasons, 2018, and co-author of the poetry and short fiction book Evermore, 2021, 17Numa Press.
She lives and writes in Rome, Italy. Her work was published in various literary venues both online and in print.
Links to her publications can also be found at her website:https://telluricverse.wordpress.com/
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