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    Stardust for Butterfly Wings
    Stardust for Butterfly Wings
    Stardust for Butterfly Wings
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    Stardust for Butterfly Wings

    By Diana Cojocaru

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    I have always been in love with books. I used to spend my summers reading and it is still one of my favorite activities. Poetry has always been an escape for me, a means of expressing myself , giving me the freedom of playing with the words as I pleased. The

    first poem I wrote when I was about 10 years old, but more seriously in high schoo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCMD
    Release dateSep 25, 2020
    ISBN9781952046797
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      Stardust for Butterfly Wings - Diana Cojocaru

      Copyright © 2020 by Diana Cojocaru

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      To my dear Grandpa

      Bunicului meu drag

      "There is nothing to writing...

      All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’’

      Ernest Hemingway

      Prinde rădăcini și învață să zbori!

      Contents

      Foreword

      English and Romanian Poems

      Suflet captiv

      Trapped soul

      Fatidică

      Fateful

      Naivitate

      Naivety

      Poezie albastră

      The blue poem

      Cufăr împletit

      Braided chest

      Țărm pustiu

      Lonely shore

      Piatra mării

      Sea heart

      Dilemă sub un nor

      Dilemma under a cloud

      Succes, prietene!

      Good luck, my friend!

      Frunze sângerii

      Bleeding leaves

      Arta de a iubi

      The art of loving

      Prietena sufletului meu

      The friend of my soul

      Foșnet auriu

      Golden sounds

      Legenda fluturelui

      The story of the butterfly

      Liniște din furtună

      Peace from the storm

      Infinit

      Infinity

      Peste noi amândoi

      Over the two of us

      Valuri de dor

      Waves of longing

      Rătăciri

      Wanderings

      Dulci nimicuri

      Sweet nothing

      În construcție

      Work in progress

      English Poems

      Mine

      Transience

      Falling into coldness

      Maybe

      The secrets of the night

      Ephemeral time

      Waiting for infinity

      Sweetened figures of speech

      Dying dusty leaves

      Summer

      Useless disguise

      Blue longing

      The Phoenix Birds

      Healing

      The purpose of stone

      Crazy, stupid love

      More light

      Wandering past

      No colours, no meaning

      Stars’ twilight

      Don’ts

      Evening waltz

      The new me

      Darkness

      Rebuilding myself

      Pure, intentional poetry

      Imperfect thoughts

      Second prelude

      Constellations

      Ruins of us

      Mute colours

      Hope

      Mute waiting

      Shadows and ashes

      Home

      We, the roses

      Who are you, my darling?

      The peace of freedom

      The light of the truth

      I: Ice

      Sparkling happiness

      The month of May

      Foreword

      "When the heart becomes lyric

      and spreads on the paper(...)"

      poems are born.

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