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Wax Heroes
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This volume of poetry reflects the periods of profound anxiety, uncertainty and fear during a time when the author was confronted with very challenging obstacles. The spontaneous reminiscence brings up different meanings and aspects of our lives. The work is a meditation about our existences and their senses and about our roles and our relations with the people that we love. It is also about the revelations of maturity that give our mentors and societies' heroes different meanings. Some of the heroes' images will melt down showing them as "Wax Heroes". Many malefic forces in the society are proved to have behind them human characters.
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Release dateJun 30, 2023
ISBN9781977266910
Wax Heroes
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Ted Volcin

Ted Volcin wrote and translated poetry during the years in different literary journals and anthologies. He is fluent in several languages and worked as a healer for people who are compelled to confront with mental health problems. This is his second volume of poetry. He lives in the state of Ohio with his wife and two daughters. 

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    Wax Heroes - Ted Volcin

    Wax Heroes

    All Rights Reserved.

    Copyright © 2023 Ted Volcin

    V3.0

    This is a work of poeticized fiction. The opinions expressed in this manuscript are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or thoughts of the publisher. The author has represented and warranted full ownership and/or legal right to publish all the materials in this book.

    This book may not be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in whole or in part by any means, including graphic, electronic, or mechanical without the express written consent of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

    Outskirts Press, Inc.

    http://www.outskirtspress.com

    ISBN: 978-1-9772-6691-0

    Cover Photo © 2023 Ted Volcin. All rights reserved - used with permission.

    Outskirts Press and the OP logo are trademarks belonging to Outskirts Press, Inc.

    PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    Dedicated to my beloved wife Alina

    ~

    It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest

    impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.

    Blaise Pascal

    Bilingual Edition

    Written in Romanian and English

    Dedicată soției mele iubite Alina

    ~

    Nu cei care scriu legile au cel mai mare impact asupra societății.

    Sunt cei care scriu cântecele.

    Blaise Pascal

    Ediție bilinguală

    ScrisăînLimba Românăşi Engleză

    Contents

    1. În Umbre

    2. In The Shadows

    3. Am să rămân

    4. I Shall Remain

    5. Biografie

    6. Biography

    7. Cap de acuzare

    8. Accusation Head

    9. Generaţii I

    10. Generations I

    11. Cântecele Surdului I

    12. The songs of the deaf I

    13. Cântecele Surdului II

    14. The songs of the deaf II

    15. Dor

    16. Yearning

    17. Eroi Anonimi

    18. Anonymous Heroes

    19. Generaţii II

    20. Generations II

    21. Speranţa dublurii

    22. The Understudy’s Hope

    23. Les Saltimbanques

    24. Les Saltimbanques

    25. Plângea o masă

    26. The empty glass

    27. Vis de porţelan

    28. Dream of porcelain

    29. Stele căzătoare

    30. Falling stars

    31. Târziu

    32. Too Late

    33. Uitarea

    34. Forgetting

    35. Pecingini

    36. Barren Fields

    37. Coșmar

    38. Nightmare

    39. Târzia oră

    40. Late Hour

    41. Preria

    42. The Prairie

    43. Abandonuri

    44. Abandonments

    45. Urme

    46. Traces

    47. La Răscruce

    48. At The Crossroads

    49. Bătrânul Stejar

    50. The Old Oak Tree

    51. O Fotografie

    52. A Photo

    53. Ape Reci

    54. Cold Waters

    55. Eroi de ceară

    56. Wax Heroes

    57. Evul Angoaselor

    58. The Age of Anguish

    59. Simfonie de Toamnă

    60. Autumn Symphony

    61. Incertitudine

    62. Uncertainty

    63. Octombrie

    64. October

    65. Iluzia Timpului I

    66. The Illusion of Time

    67. Singurătăți

    68. Solitudes

    69. Despre Negare

    70. About Denial

    71. În Umbra Cumpenei

    72. In The Watershed

    73. Într-o Iarnă Albastră

    74. Once in a Blue Winter

    75. Alina I

    76. Alina I

    77. Iluzia Timpului II

    78. The Illusion of Time II

    79. Alina II

    80. Alina II

    81. Negare

    82. Denial

    83. Noaptea

    84. The Night

    85. Visate Roluri

    86. Dreamed Roles

    87. În Cumpănă I

    88. In The Watershed I

    89. În cumpănă II

    90. In The Watershed II

    91. În cumpănă III

    92. In The Watershed III

    93. Alina III

    94. Alina III

    95. Speranța

    96. Hope

    97. Amintiri I

    98. Memories I

    99. Gladiatorii

    100. Gladiators

    101. În cumpănă IV

    102. In The Watershed IV

    103. Lied

    104. Lied

    105. Evadare eșuată

    106. Failed escape

    107. Alina IV

    108. Alina IV

    109. Alina V

    110. Alina V

    111. Fantomele în rochii de mătase

    112. Ghosts in silk dresses

    113. Nesfârșitul Haos

    114. The Unending Chaos

    115. Amintiri II

    116. Memories II

    117. Amintiri III

    118. Memories III

    119. Culorile Copacilor

    120. The colors of trees

    121. Van Gogh

    122. Van Gogh

    123. Viitorul în clipe

    124. The future in moments

    125. O limbă a pietrelor pierdute

    126. A Language of Forgotten Stones

    127. Între vechi hotare

    128. Between the old borders

    129. Singur I

    130. Alone I

    131. Dureri perene

    132. Perennial pain

    133. În esență

    134. In essence

    135. Limbaj Matematic

    136. Mathematical Language

    137. De Ce?

    138. Why?

    139. Vechea Frică

    140. The Old Fear

    141. Noapte Anostă

    142. Tedious Night

    143. Germania

    144. Germany

    145. Amintiri IV

    146. Memories IV

    147. Amintiri V

    148. Memories V

    149. O limbă neștiută

    150. An unsung language

    151. Crâmpeie de timp

    152. Fragments of time

    153. Chip de ceară

    154. Face of wax

    155. Vieți paralele

    156. Parallel lives

    157. Cutia de tabac a tatei

    158. Dad’s tobacco box

    159. Marea I

    160. The Sea I

    161. Intersecții

    162. Intersections

    163. Marea II

    164. The Sea II

    165. Tăcere

    166. Silence

    167. Zori de toamnă

    168. Autumnal Dawn

    169. Nanjing

    170. Nanjing

    171. Tăcerea Problemelor

    172. The Silence of Problems

    173. Bunica Maria

    174. My Grandmother Maria

    175. Azilul Durerii

    176. Asylum of Pain

    177. Memorii de Iarnă

    178. Memories of Winter

    179. Jocul cu pietricele

    180. Playing with pebbles

    181. Cântece fără aplauze

    182. Songs without applause

    183. Singur II

    184. Alone II

    185. Eternitatea

    186. Eternity

    187. Sper

    188. I Hope

    189. Evadarea Căprioarelor

    190. Deer Escape

    191. Puterea de a fi ridicol

    192. The power of being ridiculous

    193. Cântecul Speranței

    194. Song of Hope

    195. Lecție despre timp I

    196. Lesson on time I

    197. Lecție despre timp II

    198. Lesson about time II

    199. Lecție despre timp III

    200. Lesson about time III

    1.

    În Umbre

    E lumea care s-a schimbat ?

       Sau eu încet mă schimb

    Curgând în ceasuri reci

       De adânc

    Ca o clepsidră cu nisip vâscos

    Tot fără lacrimi plâng

    E lumea care s-a schimbat ?

    Grăbită

    Poate

       Supra digitală

    În magma entropiei

          Alunecând

       Raze de informație

       Se întorc

    Idei

       O formă colectivă

    De iluzii

    Iar geniile

       Imaginare noduri

    Dintr-o reţea albastră siderală

    Nu ne schimbăm

    Suntem pe veci aceaşi

    În pecete

    de timp pe care-l inventăm

    În izolare sânt statornic

    Inventez trecutul

    Acum iubesc tot ce-am trădat

    Şi mai puţin

       Tot mai puţin

    Visez şi-mi ascult trupul

    Am fost poate cândva

       În altă viaţă

    Un actor umil

    Sau un călugăr misionar

    Disecând sensuri

    Pierdut

    În a Golgotei umbre

       în îndoieli majore

    În taine dulci

    Care se ascund

    În trupuri

    Curgând încet

    Spre nicăieri

    Slujind idei şi vise

    Trei continente

    Limbi şi mări

    Prin care valuri trec

    Și mor

    În reci tipare

    Trec în cuvânt şi se prefac în sare

    Trec în cuvânt şi apoi se-ntorc

    În Mare

    2.

    In The Shadows

    Has the world changed?

    Or it is I who’s slowly changing?

    Sliding into cold hours in the depths

    Like mud into a sand glass clock

    Crying without tears

    Has the world changed?

    Flooded by information

    Always in a hurry

    Tipping toward entropy’s magma

    Where from

    The new ideas are evolving

    Proved to be often collective illusions

    The geniuses becoming knots into a blue,

    celestial network

    We do not change

    In many ways

    We are the same forever inside the seal of reinvented time

    I am the same inside myself

    Reinventing my past

    I now love things I did betray

    And less and less I listen to my drives

    I was perhaps into another life a humble actor

    Or a missionary monk dissecting meanings

    Lost in

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