POETRY
The Score of Eternal Silence
โPOEM by Ioana Ilieศi
(Translated from Romanian)
When the birds of the past
Hoarsely scream,
Beating ominously
From wings spread
Like treacherous
traps,
I lay at the gate
of my soul
The petals of forgetfulness
Over the spasms of
forgiveness
Discolored by
time,
Dissolved in sobs.
I bind in a sheaf
the questions
That have been
reaping
The meadow of my
thoughts,
I warm with the
breeze
The thighs of the
false sideburns
And shake off the
lint of the mists
Robbed of color and meaning.
Under the soles of
fate
The rumors go
numb,
Settling
Over the slime of
time,
Learning,
The score of
eternal silence.
โฆ.
(Self-translation from ROMANIAN)
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Ioana Ilieศi
Born in Prundu Bรขrgฤului, Bistriศa-Nฤsฤud County, Romania, Ioana Ilieศi is a primary school teacher at โRadu Petrescuโ Theoretical High School in Prundu Bรขrgฤului, Bistriศa-Nฤsฤud. She is the author of the following volumes of Poetry: “ศ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎฤ๐ท๐ข๐ณ๐ข–๐ฏ ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต“ (I Keep Spring in my Heart), Solon Publishing House, May 20, 2021; “๐๐น๐ช๐ญ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ญ๐ถ๐ช” (Exile of the Soul), a bilingual volume in Romanian and Albanian, translated by Baki Ymeri, Solon Publishing House, 2021; “๐๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ข ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ช” (The Magic of the Violin), launched on June 24, 2022, in Bistriศa, Solon Publishing House; “๐ฤ๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎฤ๐ณ๐ช” (Secret Calls), published by the European Writersโ Publishing House, Buzฤu, launched on December 2, 2023, in Iaศi. Ioana Ilieศi has also published a collection of stories, riddles, and poems for children, parents, and grandparents: “๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ต. ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆศ๐ต๐ช, ๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช, ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ป๐ช๐ช ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ช, ๐ฑฤ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏศ๐ช, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ช“(The Enchanted Pen โ Stories, riddles, poems for kids, parents, grandparents) launched on June 24, 2022, in Bistriศa, Solon Publishing House;ย During the last two years Ioana Ilieศi won major awards: Third Place at the International Literature Competition “๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ณ“(Golden Feather), First Edition, Balchik, Bulgaria, September 24, 2022; Fourth Place at the ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ญ in Italy, in the prose section, for the childrenโs story “๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ต“(The Magic Pen), from the volume of the same name, Naples, 2022; Olympic Champion โ Poetry, First Prize at the ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ญ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ช๐ข๐ฅ, with the award ceremony held on November 5, 2022, in Predeal, Romania; Grand Prize at the ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ต๐ณ๐บ, ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ด, organized in 2022 by Milica Paulus and the World Poetsโ Association.
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