The poet stands between two illusions: the reality and poetry.

aphorism by Costel Zăgan from Inventeme (2011)
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I open the envelope

Of childhood accordingly to the original signs the grandfather

poem by Costel Zăgan from Parallel universes
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your smile
sweetheart
has pulled out
my soul
from its roots

poem by Costel Zăgan from Gogyohka (26 July 2018), translated by Sebastian Ciortea
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Only the childhood knows truth by heart: but it can not tell it.

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i undress
the silence
like a coat
on the lips
smiles a haiku

poem by Costel Zăgan from Gogyohka (21 September 2018), translated by Sebastian Ciortea
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Childhood is the place where God can be replaced with a plain smile.

Costel Zăgan in Heretical definitions
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After the expulsion from paradise, time is perhaps, the mask of God.

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With Adam, the word came into the world. Eve invented... the dialogue.

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Some are living dreaming, some other are just dreaming that are living.

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Destiny

I am worsening my birth litte by little, that's it.

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poem by Costel Zăgan from Parallel universes
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