Monthly Archives: May 2020

Lockdown Exulansis

My brand-new poem written for Medium.com
https://medium.com/@iuliahalatz

The smallness of the evening
Gives new beatings
In my heart.

Ding-dongs
In the color of the falling night
Dynastic stars support
The sky like so many
Miniature Atlases

I need a bigger one
To hold the
Heavy empty void
Of the soul

I lay myself
To sleep in the arms
Of snow living suns

They can never melt

They keep me going
Like flames
In the blue glass.
Thaw it and
Wisely return to fire….

Some time ago, Exulansis prompted me to start writing and to have penned a place of my own making. Nevertheless, some words are so expensive that we are better left with them unspoken or write them with the ink of a Ghost.

Art – Harald Slott-Møller 1918

About Iulia Halatz
She is primarily a teacher of English. Also her mind is lured by goodies like finance, economics, interest rates, the stock market, as she has a hankering for how the money is made. Nevertheless she is a dreamer on a cloud…As dreams cost nothing… On ordinary days she is a word-weaver for everything and everything that breathes. On the best of days she just follows the seasons by means of bike, skis, or roller-skates. She is grateful to all colors of the world and to people who read, smile and drop a line here, or on her email. Contributing author at Spillwords.com, Medium.com and Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective.

Encaptured published at Medium.com

Encaptured
Written by Iulia Halatz

https://medium.com/intricate-intimacies/encaptured-d4b93de9fefa
Her skin is like fire
her breath, distant desire
Flowers meet
for their annual feast
any time you kiss
her meatiness white…

Her hair comes from the stars
a supernova dust
it shines and coils
and transports
all of you
in a magic land…
Where seas are soft and wild
Winds blow
Of unknown stories
That paint and burn
Sounds
On your skin
That rekindle
Every time

She moves in sight…

Art by Julia Gabrielov.

Master Manole

“Between history and myth, set against a definite time and place and soaring up towards timeless heights to express eternal truths of the spirit and its works, The Ballad of the Argesh Monastery or of Master Manole is endowed with that strange and fruitful ambiguity of the great creations handed down to us by the ancient world.”
Zoe Dumitrescu Bușulenga (Translated by Dan Duțescu)

“What a dream I dreamed
In my sleep! Meseemed
A whisper from high,
A voice from the sky,
Told me verily
That whatever we
In daytime have wrought
Shall nights come to naught…”

I illustrate with Félix Vallotton, Church of the Hurlus in ruins,1917

Also posted on Quora.com.

#OpenWeStand

#OpenWeStand
Small business is changing in the face of COVID-19. This #OpenWeStand movement is for everyone who keep customers and employees safe while remaining open — and for all of us who support small businesses and their resiliency.

https://www.openwestand.org/

Close friends

“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
Vincent Van Gogh

VINCENT VAN GOGH: Chestnut Trees in Blossom

Resistance Poetry 2020.04

Resistance Poetry 2020.04
Covid-19 II: May Day

Written by Meg.
View the full article at medium.com/resistance-poetry

As always, I am humbled and honored to be a writer for Medium.com.

Henrique Alvim Corrêa: 1906 illustration for War of the Worlds