Wax Heroes
By Ted Volcin
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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
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Copyright © 2023 Ted Volcin
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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