Out of Words
I have given life to two children I have exhaled all my words I am all written out of poems. My Japanese ink paintings are modest They’ve long been made into paper airplanes. Here I stand like a...
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Alpes – Provence – Côte d’Azur 2019
“Ne la laisse pas tomber Elle est si fragile Etre une femme libérée tu sais c’est pas si facile…” Cookie Dingler – Femme libérée Copyright photos France: A. Sepi & A. Csordas 2019 Advertisements
View ArticleBehold the searing wind*
It is upon us. Its blistering tongues lurk behind the levee, They pounce like savage beasts Mercilessly they wheeze Blowing the tumbleweeds against my doorstep. A goodbye kiss, crackling dry....
View Article(Post)modern obsessions
Have you noticed how the following themes keep popping up, almost obsessively, in contemporary discourse – in the media, in the public sphere and increasingly in ourselves? This obsession with sex –...
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Kala Alm
Panta începe abrupt. Mușchii se opintesc. Se contractă, se întind. Înaintez anevoios în sus: dreptul, stângul, dreptul, stângul… La fiecare pas, talpa bocancului scârțâie, alunecă puțin în spate în...
View ArticleCovid-Spring
the heavy, menacing tread of the lone jogger, the scented solitude of the wild cherry blossom down by the water. a silence overpowering, thunderous. undaunted gulls shrieking about trivial things,...
View ArticleThe Days
Remember these days these brief days when we walked in groups of one we gave thanks to the ones who toiled and our lives touched each other even though our hands didn’t. Remember these days these...
View ArticleBallad
We’re so fucking great Masters of our fate We’ll conquer the stars We’ll colonize Mars Make a million bucks Drive SUV trucks We’ll upgrade our lives We’ll get trophy wives Your pocket’s your Savior...
View ArticleHold them in your hands
Dear friends, My poems have now become a thing. A something you can buy and hold in your hands. You can turn them into paper airplanes and give my words wings, you can write comfort food recipes on...
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River Revival
Trying to stay in shape during social distancing. A river, a grove, a few less trodden paths on a sun-flooded morning. Glimpses of real beauty. And a little piece of heaven. Copyright A. Sepi 2020. All...
View ArticleWatch for timelessness instead
a watch is a little glass prison for time – where the seconds serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole. people like to wear captive time around their wrist. when all the seconds are...
View ArticleThe Racket
Once in a blue moon, beauty settles into my soul like a swallow in its nest: gracious and quiet and fertile. Mere seconds later, hordes and hordes of selfish people with steel-toothed hounds and...
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To Belong
when she first discovered water she did not go in. she stood hypnotized. it was too wonderful. she was, like the lot of us, gripped by a fear of drowning, arrested by the vastness and the gleaming. to...
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Staycation 2020
This summer, we got up close and personal with the Bavarian Alps. Here’s a glimpse into what they have to offer. Enjoy! #berchtesgaden #koenigssee #oberaudorf #partnachklamm #chiemsee #kampenwand...
View ArticleDiscoveries
Venus – that ancient goddess of carnal desire – has a poisonous atmosphere that might, just might, hold the life of a microbe. Immediately, the microbes here on Earth began to show signs of...
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Spirituality, modernity and Brownian motion
Just a thought… So many of us feel depleted, drained, stressed out. Our beings flogged from within, our lives – our biggest gift – turned into empty chases. Pursuing a zillion things that we can grab...
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September reading
here I am, sitting on a bench next to autumn absorbing the last of the scorching sun and watching the ants move like clockwork in a playground we call our own. here they are, mapping the maze with...
View ArticleThe Pond
How the landscape changes With the moving seasons… No rebirth without dying Water and cut grass Shoulder-high saplings And all the encounters with pain. The piercing shrieks of white gulls Plunging,...
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Questions
Setting: Catholic religion class at school. Characters: New teacher – a man. A bunch of 9-year-olds. Open discussion about covenants. (Based loosely on recollection, don’t shoot the messenger!) Girl...
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