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    Parentheses
    Parentheses
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    Parentheses

    By Daniela Marin and Jade Ene

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    This poetry collection reflects the new poetry stemming from a major change in the author’s personal life. Parentheses were the perfect vehicle to combine two poems into one. Two worlds confronting each other, even at the language level – because English is not Daniela Marin’s native language. And yet, this wave of poetry crashed into her bearing these English words, with their particular sound, music, and flow.
    With or without sound, this certain rhythm transformed the poet’s previous style, emphasizing the resonance of states labelled as rust and wings, stones and flowers, death and life. With a few exceptions, all poems were originally written in English. Few of them are translations and adaptations from Romanian poems.
    The volume has four parts – Flashes from the flesh, The diary of renovation, The dialogue of life-death-love, Nine – bracketed by two parentheses-like sections (The opening of closing, The closing of opening), bringing together seemingly disparate words and worlds and searching, always, for meaning.
    The world of words, or words creating worlds, has been a constant subject of interest to Daniela, along with the spiritual quest for truth and understanding the purpose and meaning of human life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMay 5, 2023
    ISBN9781447716211
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      Parentheses - Daniela Marin

      Copyright

      Title: Parentheses

      Author: Daniela Marin

      Copyright © 2023, Daniela Marin

      Cover and illustrations: Jade Ene

      Editor: Nathan Pascu

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-4477-1621-1

      Foreword

      Parentheses illuminate a different world of feelings. We hardly feel at ease with all these brackets of our lives. Sometimes we simply skip the inner world parentheses comprise. While searching for the parent, the god, the purpose of it all, sometimes we lose ourselves among the theses.

      The opening of closing

      Parent-theses

      We choose, then we forget

      sunk in the molecules of dust

      (Just dust, yet our bodies’ essence)

      symbols of stars illuminating the universe

      the verse that has no gender and no race

      (a verse of every thing and every breath,)

      We choose, then we forget

      encapsulated in our minds

      we only see the walls around

      but yearn for love and freedom and embrace.

      We yearn to have a parent

      to belong

      (a history)

      not being able to comprise

      the spiraling continuum

      with our childish eyes.

      We yearn to build strong theses

      of origins, of elements, of stars

      (to soothe our lives’ impermanence,)

      theses that make us worthy of a name,

      a purpose and a story

      in the book of life.

      Becoming parents we do strive,

      thus showing our deep beliefs

      (to manifest what we learned and more- what we need,)

      we yearn to prove our parent theses

      to prove the human being, not the golden leaves.

      We strive to own our time

      to prove we’re not just incidental thieves.

      We need parentheses-enhancing truths

      (alternatives of details that make our lives a panoply of booths.)

      We

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