CALIGULA
Pastorel TEODOREANU
(1894-1964)
Caligula, omnipotent
Rode his horse to Parliament.
Ceausescu more sinister
Made his ass a Minister.
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Poetry in Translation (CCCXV): Alexandru Osvald (A. O.) TEODOREANU, aka “Pastorel” (1894-1964), ROMANIA – “CALIGULA ”, “CALIGULA ”
January 24th, 2015 · Comments Off on Poetry in Translation (CCCXV): Alexandru Osvald (A. O.) TEODOREANU, aka “Pastorel” (1894-1964), ROMANIA – “CALIGULA ”, “CALIGULA ” · Communist Prisons, PEOPLE, Poetry, POLITICAL DETENTION / DISSENT, quotations, Translations
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Poetry in Translation (XCVI): Rodica Iuian, “Sculpted Head”
October 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on Poetry in Translation (XCVI): Rodica Iuian, “Sculpted Head” · Diaspora, PEOPLE, Poetry, quotations, Translations
Sculpted Head:
Rodica IULIAN *b Romania,1931)
“He was handsome, the child-Caligula
He was serene the child-Caligula
He had a child-like smile
The child-Caligula.
I ought to have bought him a fair yearling
One hundred yearlings
For him to have a whole Senate of yearlings
To play with
And to let them be
Yearlings, true yearlings
Each and every one of them ridden
By the child-Caligula
The child-Caligula
Never Caligula – the adult.”
(Iulian, Rodica, Stained glass- Poems, page 28,
Translated by Constantin Roman)
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