Theme: Dragobete
(the Romanian equivalent for Valentine’s Day, celebrated on February 24)
Special Prize
another Dragobete –
left without a
match
the lace gloves
Ana Drobot
A poem of
nostalgia discreetly suggested. Another Dragobete observes the barren
sequence of the years in which the calendar reminds, in a rather painful way,
of what has been and will remain unrepeatable. (Her) gloves without a match is the
evocation of an expressive detail of what has been and never will be again. Expressive
because it sends, symbolically, to times long gone. And it is not about a
glove, peerless relic, but about the matchless, uniqueness of a love and of
an era. The pair without a match.
Another Dragobete can also be read in the sense of exceptionality, of another kind of. The one described is not just different. In fact, it is not just any holiday, but one that is special. It is the kind of holidays we recall with piety and regret, as we would say, in a tender and slightly ironic way, just like Sorescu: life was otherwise back then, more tactful…
(Comment by Corneliu Traian Atanasiu)
Another Dragobete can also be read in the sense of exceptionality, of another kind of. The one described is not just different. In fact, it is not just any holiday, but one that is special. It is the kind of holidays we recall with piety and regret, as we would say, in a tender and slightly ironic way, just like Sorescu: life was otherwise back then, more tactful…
(Comment by Corneliu Traian Atanasiu)
First
Place
Dragobete day –
carved in the bark an
empty heart
carved in the bark an
empty heart
Daniela
Lăcrămioara Capotă
Second
Place
Dragobete -
the neighbour’s rooster
jumping over the fence
Genovel-Florentin
Frățilă
Third
Place
Dragobete day -
even the snowman
glancing at the gate
Rafila Radu
Fourth
Place
signs of thaw –
a warmer look
on Dragobete
Grigore Chitul
Dragobete -
hidden well under the cap
white hairs
hidden well under the cap
white hairs
Adriana Iacob
Fifth
Place
on Dragobete -
the old lady’s glasses
getting foggy
the old lady’s glasses
getting foggy
Vasile
Conioși-Mesteșanu
Sixth
Place
on Dragobete -
a homeless man hugs
a dog to his chest
a homeless man hugs
a dog to his chest
Mihai Mateiciuc
