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Category: Poetry

The Cafe Review

Valery July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

Volume 33, Summer 2022 The Peace Enigma of Stillness Herds of trees stumble out in the distanceWailing in a low undertoneSome falling towards the skyBurning with the speed of an

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Lost & Found

Valery April 24, 2022April 24, 2022

A chandelier of clouds twists over the mountainsSignaling the launch of the morningBut that will not end my dreamsWhich refuse to stop the apocalyptic nightmareThe invisible reality lies undetected by

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Itaca Online Romanian Diaspora

Valery April 10, 2022April 10, 2022

English Corner The Peace Enigma of Stillness Herds of trees stumble out in the distanceWailing in a low undertoneSome falling towards the skyBurning with the speed of an invasionHow hard

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Rent My Shadow

Valery April 3, 2022April 3, 2022

published in current online issue of tribes.org. Once I had a liquid shadow, kept it in a jarBut I know it hid in a black box at night And in the

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2 Poems in North Gates Magazine

Valery February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

Rent My Shadow Once I had a liquid shaw, kept it in a jarBut I know it hid in a black box at nightAnd in the morning stained my curtains

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The Endgame

Valery February 20, 2022February 20, 2022

French TranslationTranslation by Gilles&John Le Jeu Final Quand il n’y a pas assez de temps pour rêverQuand la toute dernière note est jouéeQuand les musiciens ont quitté la fêteQuand les

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Speechless Poetry for the People

Valery July 25, 2021July 25, 2021

Wandering downtown, apocalypticallyAlong the river, bikers swish consecutivelyLonely insanity, beacons so sweet, so saltyFrom a savage shore with Vivaldi on my lipsMy eyelashes blink at the bottom of the riverTraveling

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swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Valery May 23, 2021June 13, 2021

Arteidolia, June 2021 Destiny stacked beyond the cloudsValery Oisteanu & Ruth Oisteanu Poetry by Valery OisteanuCollages by Ruth Oisteanu The Subway in the Sky Dreaming in the afternoon, waking on

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So it Seems

Valery April 11, 2021April 11, 2021

(appropriately depressing) ​Poem half remembered from a dreamWrinkled like aging female breastsGetting smaller, flattened under my feetLost among the living and the dead ​Spreading the solitude of shattered sleepExpanding psychedelically

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Selected Poetry from Anarchy for a Rainy Day

Valery March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

(Translated poetry published 2019 in Banchetul de Vara) Global PSY-Dada(to Tristan Tzara on the 50thAnniversary of his death)Lui Tristan Țara la a 50a aniversare a morții Care este viitorul suprarealismului?Cu

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