Droplets of Poems | Silviu Craciunas

I put the words
leaves between the years
I trampled on them
to make place for more
today I leave
the unfinished apprenticeship
emanating from your poems
I leave it to others who dared before
I was not going to be
a beginning devoid of hope
other words live through the waiting
of echoes born to be
verses nourished with me
I would put a period but
the commas are crying which measure
the pauses hiding between classics
I let the rhymes fall
by fingers denuded of rhythm
in another poem
the words are demanding
to be tended with beauty
it is not a creed
just an eternal escape
in the moving prison
of thoughts.
I carry within me
the dreams which were kissed
with droplets of poems
as they once were

 Silviu Craciunas holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and was an Associate Professor at the University of Sibiu, Romania, before retiring and dedicating himself to writing. His first novel “In Destiny’s Shadow”, based on the 1999 NATO bombing of Surdulica, was published by Excelsior Art. His second novel “Lazaret – Wandering Souls”, published by Eikon, is the story of a doctor in training at a psychiatric hospital who, while treating a young lady, lives the experience of his own split personality. He has published poems in online magazines (Every Writer, Section8Magazine) and printed magazine The Transnational.