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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Painting by Adina Romanescu<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n And If Love Were Right? <\/strong>. . . \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Love, love, love! Always love! Is one right to play hide-and-seek Or else, And if love were right?<\/p>\n Paula Romanescu,<\/strong> Romania<\/p>\n Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan Et si l\u2019 amour avait raison?…\/\/<\/em><\/strong>L\u2019amour, l\u2019amour, l\u2019amour! Toujours l\u2019amour!\/Chacun le cherche d\u00e8s le premier soupir.\/Mais l\u2019amour vient quand on ne l\u2019attend plus\/Et puis s\u2019en va sans jamais avertir. \/\/<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n A-t-il raison de jouer \u00e0 cache-cache\/Avec notre \u00e2me? De nous ouvrir les cieux\/Lorsque la terre est trop petite dans nos yeux\/Et, qu\u2019il nous prend le c\u0153ur pour port d\u2019attache?\/\/Ou bien encore\/Aurait-il tort\/De nous apprendre que la mort\/Serait la toute derni\u00e8re saison\u2026\/\/\u2026Et si l\u2019amour avait raison?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Painting by Adina Romanescu \u00a0 And If Love Were Right? . . . \u00a0 \u00a0 Love, love, love! Always love! Everyone seeks it from the first sigh. But love comes when one doesn’t expect it any longer and then leaves without ever warning. Is one right to play hide-and-seek with our soul? To open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEveryone seeks it from the first sigh.
\nBut love comes when one doesn’t expect it any longer
\nand then leaves without ever warning.<\/p>\n
\nwith our soul? To open for us the skies
\nwhen the earth is too small in our eyes
\nand then takes our hearts as haven?<\/p>\n
\nwould it be wrong
\nto teach us that death
\nis the very last season …<\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>From: <\/em>“Et si l’amour avait raison?<\/strong>“, editions Tipo Moldova, Iasi, 2016.<\/span>
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