Dorina Brandusa Landen
Without doubt
Out of
the primordial
mist a thousand of eyes
are looking at us in an odd way
measuring our life in retrospective
counting all our mistakes
and
in one afternoon
streaky shadows
condemning us to the judgment
of water:
Only the one who would drown is
innocent!
Without
doubt
one hears the anxiety.
Somebody pulls the bolt of the days.
Someone smiles like a child among the shadows
strong enough to survive
the fear carries it within itself.
One doesn’t run looking for another homeland.
Somebody has forgotten to laugh
reckoning everyone is guilty.
Someone swims against the current.
Somebody retouches reality
to keep us floating like a raft
sailing on water that will sink us.
Someone forces
us to
secrecy
and our mouth is a wound closed on words.
You get laid
where you’re fast asleep
and around your nest
are awaiting those who will be born
avaricious at your death
like claws of prey.
Somebody empties the
content of life.
You’re saving someone by
loving him.
This poem is unpublished.
Dorina Brânduşa Landén
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Dorina Brânduşa Landén, Romania (currently in Sweden)
— I was born on June 9, 1958 in the Transylvanian city of Deva, Romania, but I'm currently residing in Sweden. I’m working as an editor of "Itaca" magazine Dublin, Ireland and “The Banquet” magazine, Romania. In 1986 I had a reportage featured in the collective volume 'Journey from the springs', Eminescu Publishing House, Romania. Of my 4 poetry books, 3 are in Romanian: 'The Image Vendor' (Calauza v.b. Publishing House, Romania, 2010); 'North of your Souls' (Calauza v.b. Publishing House, 2011); 'The Judgement of Water' (DaniMar Publishing House, Romania, 2012). One is bilingual, Romanian-English: 'Amurguri/Sunsets' (Calauza Printing House Deva and “Destine literare” Printing House – Montreal, 2015). The eBook version of 'North of your Souls' has been published by Ardiganbooks (UK) in 2012.
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ABOUT THE POET ~
Dorina Brânduşa Landén was born in the Transylvanian city of Deva, Romania. Presently she is resident in Sweden. The poet is editor of "Itaca" magazine Dublin, Ireland and Banchet magazine, Romania. She has received the following awards: Romulus Guga’s Prose Competition, second prize, 1983, Lucian Blaga’s The National Poetry Festival Award, 1984, Ion D. Sîrbu Foundations Prize for Poetry in 2012 for the book Judecata apei (The Judgement of Water), poetry book in Romanian, DaniMar Publishing House, Romania. Poetry, prose and translations of Swedish poetry into Romanian have been published in a wide array of the Romanian literary magazines including: Romania literara (Romania literary), Luceafarul (The Star), Cronica (The Chronicle), Vatra (The Hearth), Orizont (Horizon), Tribuna (Tribune), Transilvania (Transylvania), SLAST, Vatra Veche (The Old Hearth) Euphorion, Ardealul literar (Transylvania literary) and Pro saeculum. In 1986 she had a reportage featured in in the collective volume: Journey from the springs (Calatorie spre izvoare), Eminescu Publishing House, Romania. Books: Vanzatorul de imagini (The Image Vendor), poetry book in Romanian, Calauza v.b. Publishing House, Romania (2010). Followed by La nord de sufletele voastre (North of your Souls), a poetry book in Romanian, Calauza v.b. Publishing House, Romania. (2011). Judecata apei (The Judgement of Water), poetry book in Romanian, DaniMar Publishing House, Romania. (2012). North of your Souls e-book, Ardiganbooks, UK (2012); Amurguri/Sunsets, bilingual poetry, Romanian- English, (2015), Calauza Printing House Deva and “Destine literare” Printing House – Montreal.