From That Place in My Heart

By Gianina Sipitca

I started writing poetry in my early forties. When I was younger I was much shier in my writings, and never would have imagined I would someday write my own poems. I used to read a lot of poetry, mostly the Romanian classics like Mihai Eminescu, George Cosbuc, Topirceanu, Alexandri, the French poets Baudelaire, La Fontaine, or the likes of Pablo Neruda whom I later discovered.

My poetry is inspired by life, yet, just like the classics, when I write, I like to let my imagination go and pretend that I am composing a fictional piece. This is why, sometimes even the rhythm changes, not only the rhyme of each verse within the poem.

I have a poetic nature, and I am drawn to metaphors, but I can also use description to depict a story in the most honest, direct way, while allowing for the poetical value to be revealed within the content of the whole poem. I do not like to be constrained in any way, and my poetry is generally free verse with some rhyme. I get my inspiration from love, spirituality or politics. I write directly in Romanian or English and sometimes French. Some of my poems can be very closely drawn from my life, such as those dedicated to my brother Catalin or to my husband Mihai. Others can have a link or be inspired by the work of others. In both cases, I tend to maintain a close involvement and satisfy my need for deeper spirituality, closer relationship to God and love for those close to me, or generally for fellow man.

I would not consider myself an erudite, and my poetry is simple. Hardship, pain, love, sheer joy, despair or anxiousness, they all inspired me at one point or another. I have lived them all, and all those experiences made me what I am today.

In my poem Never Bowed, or in Key To The West, I talk about my pride and difficulties I felt when trying to integrate in the American society, while a first generation emigrant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 12, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483601144

Gianina Sipitca

I was born and raised in communist Romania in a loving family, together with younger brother Catalin. We had what I considered to have been the most wonderful childhood. Catalin was tragically lost in 1989. Coming with an engineering and business background, I stumbled upon writing poetry and later on pairing it with photography sometime in my late forties. While downloading some of my vacation photos, I got the idea of publishing a book that would convey both my love of poetry and photography. Whether I try to rhyme or not, what I usually do is try to tell a story and make it in such a way as to attract people’s attention. Metaphors are an easy choice for getting things done. I have a poetical nature and am drawn to metaphors. I do not like to be constrained in any way and my poetry is generally free verse with some rhyme, inspired from love, spirituality or politics. I would not consider myself an erudite and my poetry is simple. My poetry is fictional, inspired by life. Hardship, pain, love, despair, sheer joy or anxiousness, they all inspired me at one point or another. I have lived them all and all those experiences made me what I am today. After Catalin’s demise at 20 years old, my spirituality became more and more apparent to me through my internal struggle with and while fighting and questioning God’s plans…Thirty years after, poetry helps me find and express better and better my inner peace, the understanding that my fate is in the hand of the Creator. My husband and I spend our lives between San Jose, California during the week and our cottage in the mountains in Arnold, California during the weekends. We vacation twice a year, generally in the North American National Parks or abroad, in Europe. Besides travel, poetry, photography, and digital painting, I enjoy cooking in my kitchen in Arnold. I never use a recipe. I start gathering whatever I have in the pantry and create a meal. Before ‘Lessons for a new generation’, I have published two poetry books: Poetry in Color and From That Place In My Heart and several others are ready for print. In March of 2019 I also published my first novel a Sci Fi book entitled The Big Thought Reading Machine/Fiction Or Not, This Is What I Got, about the superhero The Tsarina, with an IQ of 7000, who is a messenger of God. The continuation novel, almost like a volume II, entitled Dystopian, is about a novel written by the same superhero, and was published on June 16th of 2019. I hope dear reader, that you enjoy reading my books and my poetry. Be kind and assume that I always had something I wanted you to know about, even if the words seem sometimes out of place, maybe even in the wrong sequence. With love, Gianina Sipitca

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Contents

Never Cried Enough

My Life

Here Is To Love

I Don’t Want You To Know

I Want To Dance

The World As We Know It

A Wonderful Promise

Why?

Enemy Of Mine

Are You Worthwhile Or Am I Vile?

Anxious Or Sanctimonious

I Am Alive Again

What Do I Feel

I Wished For A Trip To St. Petersburg

The House In Arnold

Under The Rialto Bridge

On Vacation

Writing Poetry

Living Bombastic

On The Ground

By The Lake

Making Love To The Idea Of You

Despair

What Can I Tell You

Where Are You II

Where Are You?

There Is A Place

You Little Devil

Satisfaction

Confession

Do Not Let Go

Annunciation

Our Christmas Tree

It Is All Good

Leave Me Alone

Ginduri—Never Bow

Variations In Creation

Wedding Bells At Tivoli

One Day

For The Love Above

Love Actually

Forget About It

Logic

What Should My Life Have Been

Should I Be Allowed

I Love Myself

I Forgive You

The Way You Make Me Feel

Olympics

Sarcastics

Little Did I Know

Word Of Advice

Cursed Be The Evil Doers

To Be

What Do I Know For Sure

Pour Unfortunate Souls

Double Crossing And Paulsing

So What If I Did That?

To The Rule Of Law

Knowing

Key To The West

I Am Enthralled

Twist

Tragic

Gaga

My Pledge Of Allegiance

About Faith

Politico

Setups And Mix-Ups

Paranoid

When We Were Young

Never Alone

Mihai Can Deal

How’s About This Engineer

The More You Wait

Ginduri-Thoughts

Marketing

Ginduri-Thouhts

Whatever I Think

Mihai and I

Dear Linu

To My Friends The Censors

Only If

Self-esteem

Funky Romanians

Troy Davis

To Sir With Love

To The Intruders

Army

The Electorate

Dedication

I hope dear reader, that you enjoy the book. Be kind and assume that I always had something I wanted you to know about, even if the words seem sometimes out of place, maybe even out of order or in the wrong sequence.

With love,

Gianina Sipitca             San Jose, February 7, 2013

Introduction

By The Author

I started writing poetry in my early forties. When I was younger I was much shier in my writings, and never would have imagined I would someday write my own poems. I used to read a lot of poetry, mostly the Romanian classics like Mihai Eminescu, George Cosbuc, Topirceanu, Alexandri, the French poets Baudelaire, La Fontaine, or the likes of Pablo Neruda whom I later discovered.

My poetry is inspired by life, yet, just like the classics, when I write, I like to let my imagination go and pretend that I am composing a fictional piece. This is why, sometimes even the rhythm changes, not only the rhyme of each verse within the poem.

I have a poetic nature, and I am drawn to metaphors, but I can also use description to depict a story in the most honest, direct way, while allowing for the poetical value to be revealed within the content of the whole poem. I do not like to be constrained in any way, and my poetry is generally free verse with some rhyme. I get my inspiration from love, spirituality or politics. I write directly in Romanian or English and sometimes French. Some of my poems can be very closely drawn from my life, such as those dedicated to my brother Catalin or to my husband Mihai. Others can have a link or be inspired by the work of others. In both cases, I tend to maintain a close involvement and satisfy my need for deeper spirituality, closer relationship to God and love for those close to me, or generally for fellow man.

I would not consider myself an erudite, and my poetry is simple. Hardship, pain, love, sheer joy, despair or anxiousness, they all inspired me at one point or another. I have lived them all, and all those experiences made me what I am today.

In my poem Never Bowed, or in Key To The West, I talk about my pride and difficulties I felt when trying to integrate in the American society, while a first generation emigrant.

"Is it really you and I,

Worth to become