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Category: Online Poetry

Poetry published in online collections

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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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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6 Published in Big Bridge Online

Valery December 20, 2020March 23, 2021

Ira Cohen—In Memoriam What’s next? whispers Ira and becomes invisible Scream no more, from unquenched fateWe’ll see you on the other sideA Jewish Shaman walks away While the big flutes

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2 Published in Void Magazine Online

Valery December 20, 2020January 8, 2021

Romanian Derangement Condensing and suppressing eternityNearby an old champagne factory,Instability of identityIn an old age home of the Jewish community.Exploding multiple vulnerability of guilt and alienating absurdityThese are the hazardous

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Published in Dilema Veche Online

Valery December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

Outside Timeto Gellu Naum @ 100 The temptations of St. NaumJust one of those things, an apparitionNext life misery wrapped in “hypotheticals”Defeated by passion but un-subdued by destinyNaum, keeper of

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