Sunday, January 24, 2016

Interview with Anca Mihaela Bruma

Insights About Creative Writing

And Impact On the Readers


Interview can be found here


Smashwords.com


Atunispoetry.com






You use many grammatical images and figures of speech in your poems. How does this relate to what you are trying to convey to the reader?

I do not respect rules of grammar the way an acrobat respects the tightrope!. In fact I love to give a total new meaning. Poetry is attractive to writers who are especially creative, rebellious, and enjoy coloring outside the lines. Spelling, punctuation and use of grammar, are nothing more than a creative tool for me. I choose to dismiss the rules altogether or use the them to decorate and add aesthetic elements to a poem. Toying with grammar rules is one such device, but it is not something that can be approached carelessly... It is true for all types of writing: learn the rules, and only after you have learned them, go ahead and break them! I will salute anyone who is able to break the rules in the interest of ART and great poetry writing just as much as I admire poets who craft meter and verse within the confines of grammar. So for this language-loving poet, either way is the right way. Walk the tight rope or jump from it and see if you can fly. Now, why use of so many grammatical images as figures of speech? One reason, it is impact of my own education; second, grammar by its nature is very near Mathematics, use of them as part of speech creates a specific rhythm.


What is your main inspiration and the message?

The message is: find YOURSELF! KNOW yourself! With and within all your aspects and manifestations of your own Being! The inspiration: the hidden meanings about Life and Love and I use this form of expression for creating picturesque views about these major themes, transforming the way we think about our own selves.

Do you think your writings are related to the music of the spheres?

Through my writings I try to respond and give VOICE to certain metaphysical visions and the Reality I try to reflect. When the forms of my expression change radically, it is always because the underlying metaphysical grasp of Reality has changed as well. Music is, in a way, the sound of metaphysics, or metaphysics in sound. When engaged in creating the work, artists usually falls into a MEDITATIVE trance, becoming saturated with a pure, non- material energy, untouched by human desires. Socrates believed for example, that 'beautiful poems are not human, not even from human beings, but are divine and are from gods, and poets are nothing but representatives of the gods, possessed by whoever possesses them'.


How does the spiritual dimension of reality infuse your works? Do you see spirituality as primarily inner, unrelated to the "objective" world, or an intertwining always taking place, sort of incarnational?

All artists, painters, fashion designers, writers etc will be able to tell you their "creations" are reflections or manifestations of "another" world. I personally like to write in an induced altered state of consciousness. However, sometimes I seriously think if these are not coming as well from other experiences, not from this tangible, immediate Reality.



Many artists say that unhappiness can be a good catalyst for composing. For you, writing is like a catharsis or how can it be described?

Katharsis is purification of the emotions... the same time a perfect catalyst for powerful personal development. Psychologically a poem arises from the unconscious, subsequently a poem is created by the mind, since poetry is its language. It is content in the form of words which often expresses the psychic tribulations, this influencing the emotions. In Antiquity Art was used for "soul cleansing" and the word "katharsis" appeared in relation to the word Art. In this way poetry started to "heal", therefore "therapeia" arose and it was considered the poet's divine afflatus. Katharsis itself is not only therapeutic and healing but in the same time a mystical experience. Therefore the central theme of my lyricism has therapeutic effect, "the lyrical I", whose feelings and thoughts are considered as lyrical confessions, a self-expressed artistry where my inner realty, inner space and psyche are exteriorized.





Your poetry is wonderfully enhanced by the lining of music and soothing or provoking imagery that you use. It becomes very cinematic. How did you come up with the idea?

OK, first I always dreamed of combining arts in one, one supports the other. Second, the decision came, when someone made a comment that he felt "negativity" in one of the poem, I was distressed to be honest, even though everything you read, hear, see it is just an interpretation. Regardless, I chose to make a point, to use other arts in order to support and convey more appropriately what I want to say: a message of Hope, Love, Wisdom, Joy, Self-Discovery. And third: I am a strong believer in what is called "total artist", therefore I could synthesize better my view of HOW I see and react to the World.



Has your poetry changed in any ways since when you first started writing it?

Of course, it is a MUST for any artist to keep changing and challenging himself/herself, nothing is static in this Life, therefore the artist has to be prone to be inside these changes, be able to depict them. In fact his art (in any form) at various stage shall show his/her own artistic development. As I started writing since I was just 9 years, it has passed so many years since that moment. My “lyrical writings” now, as I like to call them, are more kind of a spiritual autobiography, depicting a reality behind all forms, with no space and time, a quantum view of existence. Right now, I see the writing as a form of being present inside the language, a paradigm of living which is encoded in the message itself, like a poetic consciousness with a spherical view of things, Life, and Love. From the classics to the transcendental thinkers, all influenced me, and I have a holistic approach when I express myself through writings. The language, I use is highly evocative and infused with multi-dimensional meaning. It demands comprehension and sensitivity on the part of the reader to grasp out the inner aspect of a poem. ALL my poems, deal with dichotomies, dualism, paradoxes, antithesis in a dialectic manner; themes like: body and soul (corporal and spiritual), Time and Eternity (finite and infinite), real (concrete) and the ideal (abstract), carnal (profane) and divine (sacred), emotion (passion) and reason (logic). Everything is resolved into a unity: the oneness of lovers, the self-sufficiency of lovers, the image of the circle (perfection).


What is a good poetry to you, you seem to know a lot of forms and ways to write poetry, which way or method has been your favorite so far?

What is a "good" poetry? The one which “builds” a language within a language, a universe within another universe using vivid imagery, sometimes surreal, giving to the poetry a transcending feeling. The one which "moves" from the outward expression to a more inner world expression, as a poetic description of elevating experiences, and as the result is able to mark people's lives. The one which awakens in others the deep realities of Life within themselves. A good writing shall be like a LEGACY in people's hearts and lives!!! I like poetry or writings which are able apprehend the infinite intelligence, catching the reflections of Truth with a strong mystic sense of infinity, of the boundless, of the opening out of the world of our normal finite expressions into the transcendental. In terms of "my favorite method", it is very similar with "stream of consciousness" style. I am not fixed with a style, yet, the reader, is able to recognize my signature, even though my writings do not have the same format, but he/she will be able to recognize it due to the content, my approach, my signature. It is imperative to find the balance between format and content, too much emphasis on the format will create kind of dilution of the content itself. Techniques, recipes on how to write are important, as a base, however, each writer shall develop their own style. My emphasis is on the inner rhythm, rather than the external one.

Where is your destination in this journey called Life?

"We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time./... What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make and end is to make a beginning./The end is where we start from." (TS Eliot) No final destination, but each moment creates opportunity for recreation. Deciding for a destination, you stop the moment of recreation, by allowing limits!

What topic is your favorite to write about?

The hidden meanings about Life and Love and I use this form of expression for creating picturesque views about these major themes, transforming the way we think about our own selves. For me the poetry works when it directly or indirectly focuses on the relationship of Self and World. The persona of the writer is the poem’s crucial element, its spine. No good poems about sunrises have ever been written. Many great poems have been written about persona who happen to be experiencing the sunrise. Therefore, the writing shall have a powerful experiential element. The poem has to convey something deeper than just the aesthetic meaning!!!



What literature genders impacted on your own writings? Which authors, poets, and people have inspired your work?

In terms of poetry writing, there is an interesting curve in my writing “career”. At initial stage, just a teenager, I was very much influenced by Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, Avant-garde, followed in my university times by Existentialism, Surrealism, Transcendentalism. Poets and writers influenced me in my own literary development as well approach of life. Just to mention some at that time: Dostoevsky, Camus, Kafka, William Blake, Umberto Eco, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Bronte, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, TS Eliot, Plato, Henri Bergson, Jean Paul Sartre, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Carl Jung, Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Henry David Thoreau and so on. A huge impact on me had as well the Oriental philosophies, like Taoism, Zen, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Sufism, Buddhism and so on, and all these perspectives about life made a huge impact on me and the way I approach writing nowadays. The time I did not write, for many years, it was the perfect time for me to incubate and crystallize all these knew knowledge, together with my own experiences in order to have my own signature in my own writings. From the classics to the transcendental thinkers, all influenced me, and I have a holistic approach when I express myself through writings. Also a major role played from the very beginning the seer poets like Kabir, Rumi, Hafiz etc, the ones who depicted so well the high consciousness and wisdom, who were interested in the meaning of Life.


How difficult was it for you to write poetry in a different language, did you always write in English, or you also have poems in your native language?

I started writing since I was just 9 years old, so of course, it was in my native language, which is Romanian. It was the time when I belonged to an artistic writing group. I had attempts in writing poetry in English, only when I graduated my Bachelor of Arts. It is imperative to feel the "pulse" of a language in order to be able to express yourself in another language. This is a major plus, as you can use the inheritance of your own language, and I am lucky as Romanian being a Latin language is full of meanings. English being a Germanic language, rigid by nature, it challenges me, 'forcing" me to move the poetic language at different level. I like to find analogies between disparate things. In my writings, as well with these two languages. To be noted that Latin languages (and Romanian is one of them) are reach in connotations vs Germanic languages (English), and the beauty of expression play a major role in building exactly on these connotations. If initially I found that difference between these two languages, quite restrictive, I approach it differently, by maximizing the language usage, using lots of antithesis, and combination of words, in order to create new ideas, like universes of thought inside the reader's mind and heart. Basically, you become like an "architect" of a language!



Every poem imagined by you is a celestial drop of spiritual energy. I'd like to know if the roots of your daily thoughts are in English or Romanian.

Speaking two languages can be challenging because sometimes I must direct attention to one language while suppressing interference from the other. Brains of bilingual people automatically activate both languages even in contexts where only one is relevant. This is for my daily thoughts.

Between words (poetry) and music, which form of expression is more powerful?

Well, it is simple, of course MUSIC!!! Music speaks to all types of "languages" and hearts, SOUND is before the Word, in facts words are combination of sounds!

Do you find any of the subjects you are driven to write about the most painful?

PAIN!!! The best way to answer this question is with one of my favorite quote: "Take heed of this mystery and don't forget it, the more you rise, the more you have to descend, because the measure of height is the same as the measure of descent." (Zamolxe law)


The cadence of your poetry indicate a great ease of making the words dance together. Like they were already there, somewhere and you just stumbled upon them. How difficult it is for you to "give birth" and how long does it take?

You are right, for me everything is a dance, this is my perspective about Life itself, the conversation is a dance, the way you choose the clothes is like a dance for me, basically everything. Saying that, keeping the mind switched on this approach, I do not find problems in playing with the words, and through this "dance" to create new meanings. Words appear to me like dust particles in front of my eyes, and I can hear their sound.... and their dance while I am combining. The whole imagery to me appears like 3D painting. How difficult and how long it takes? Mostly it is spontaneous. More switched on I am and highly motivated, quicker they flow, sometimes the "river" is smooth, other time quicker, it depends on the main emotions of that time. And above all they need to be positive and vibrant!

Why poetry for transformation? What's the difference, if any in your perspective?

Poetry is different than any other forms of writing simply because it is more concentrated, more open to interpretations.... prose has the "chance" to explain more, to "dissect" the meanings. The "word" which also mean "logos" and "wisdom", once read, has powerful sounds - therefore creates Transformation.

You are a kind of mirror to me all reflections of soul, spirit and mind, do you feel our poems as typical female?

YES, a tool and path for women to claim their own inner feminine powers. When I said "feminine: I have not referred to the strict understanding of feminine/feminist. But as a tool rather. If I were a man, I would write the same, and you know why? Because, every time I finish one of the poem, I am thinking," I wish a man will write for me like this!!!" Each person has masculine and feminine inside, depending on the situation, one aspect takes over. Now, when I write, of course I use the masculine energy as well. When I said I like dichotomies and paradoxes I have also referred to this aspect, making use of both aspects of the Being.


Poetry is losing battle in terms of literature unlike novel, essays and short stories. With the rising of contemporary literature do you think your poem can cross the mainstream and outwit the aforementioned literary genre?

Any form of art can make by itself a huge difference in people's life, therefore, if let us say my writing has something to say, something to elevate in people's hearts, for sure it shall "penetrate" through the "crowd". I do not write to get appreciation and being labeled a "good poet", I write because I love to see positive and transformative effects on people around me. Basically they are my end goal, not me.... yet, it transforms me as well!!!

Would you say that your art writes you?

I have decided to start writing again this year, and it came to me like an “explosion” - it is like the pen “writes” me not the other way around - and I just know, all these years of crystallization came into fruit right now, in a concentrated manner full of hidden meanings and layers after layers.

You mentioned that recently you started to write again. How recent, and what made you to start and of course to continue writing?

My lyrical impulse started in January 2014, however I decided to go global just in April 2014, on various poetry platforms. Less than 6 months I got 4 global awards, and numerous amazing feedbacks from the readers, as well poetry published in various anthologies. People’s feedback and their insights made me think I shall take it to a more serious level, therefore I came with the idea of my own recitals as well “translating” my own poems into visuals. The audience made me to feel more responsible in terms of creating and building more in order to inspire, motivate, heal, even awaken deeper realities. So, I took it as a personal mission, for which I am grateful!





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How do you relate your own self existence with your literary life? Do you think society as a whole, is the key factor in shaping you up as a poet? Or is your poetical journey is actually a spiritual extension of your whole individuality?

For me poetry is a process of self-discovery, the plateau where strong emotions are intensely expressed, explored and explicated, it is a process of cognitive and emotional insights. My writings are my own spiritual autobiography, the stages of my own development, as a Thinker and Feeler. Projecting it outside I hope to awaken in others deeper realities of life within themselves. I am a true believer in the power of the words and the mystery of unlocking latent realities, universes, thought, emotions. It is supposed to elevate and enrich their lives as well! 

Society is a key factor! A society which believes and fully supports art plays a major role in the development of an individual.



Why literature or poetry in specific interests you so much? Do you think literature or poetry is really essential in our life? If so why?

Poetry is the language which can say more and more intensively than any other language implied in other literary pursuits. It is like a multi-dimensional, involving the readers’ sense, emotions and intelligence. There were poems which literally changed my perspective upon life, and some of them have like hidden secrets which need to be unlocked. For me poetry is important as it has that fire in the person’s life, changing it alchemically, bring new realms to it, through its powers and rhythms indeed breaking the conscious mind helping it to awaken and nourish it as well, as if it honors both the known and the unknown in us and the world itself. Personally for me, poetry is an act of existential leap, illuminating our life even bringing new breath into it. When I write I like to galvanize the readers’ attention, shaking and awakening them. With my poetry it is as if I become more human, more fully engaged with the world.




Do you think in this age of information and technology the dimensions of literature has largely been extended beyond our preconceived ideas about literature in general?

The digital medium has provided the basis for multi-mediality and every day we learn how we can manipulate in new ways the information. The transformation done by the web is multi-dimensional, it changes the objects of study and in the same time the subject who studies it. The changes in time will become greater, as technology is very fast evolving, and of course with it all other fields. Accessibility and convenience are top priority benefits.




Do you believe all writers are by and large the product of their nationality? And what are the factors which pay dividends and which become obstacles for your ultimate growth as an international writer even beyond your time?

We are all the “products” of our own nationalities, no doubt about it. It is in our DNA, carrying our own ancestors’ heritage. Each of the nationality carries its own history which of course impacts on each individual, shaping him/her. Even if I write in a language which is not my mother tongue, I do carry my own language characteristics, a very specific poetic lyricism particular in my part of the world. That makes the approach being different, even enticing for many. 

I do not believe there is any obstacle for growth as international writer, if so far you have a strong message out there, you will always find an audience which resonates with your own style, approach, view about things.



In this patriarchal society do you think, as a woman you need more free breathing space to uphold your own personality and liberty? Would you like to be addressed as a feminist?

I consider my writings as a tool for women to claim their own feminine powers. My writings try to overpass what seems to be the humans’ limitations but emphasizing the essence of a woman, of the Goddess. The main theme, Love, is basically presented as a transformative experience in life, the energizing force of the Universe and empowering the creative feminine.

As a writer I may not come across as feminist as more as a sensually mystic writer. Even though I am a strong believer of gender equality, with the same civil rights and liberties, this is not the approach I have when I write, pleading for human equality but rather a more wakeup call addressed to women to reclaim their feminine powers for themselves, to become stronger, loveable, therefore a better woman in society. It is a call not to prove to others who they are but for themselves.





Humanity has suffered immensely in past, is still suffering around the world. What role can literature in general play to bring a better day for every human being?

I see the act of writing as an existential leap, delivering people from the habitually or conventionally established world into new horizons of the spirit, and that brings a breakthrough in one’s overall consciousness.

All spiritual traditions teach us about the Power of the Word, and how life changer can be, affecting us and others, ability to change minds and lives forever. As words, thus poetry, have creating force of healing, awakening us from a deep quotidian sleep!

For me, a good poetry is like a magical spell, which carries power, color, vibration, intend, magnetically charged. Us, the poets, are the alchemists, transforming the emotions, mostly through katharsis, into poetic “spellbinding”. Saying that, we ARE responsible for the words, the ars poetica we deliver to the World and we should consciously choose to cultivate the literature’s curative powers! Using the Art of Words it is as if we practice Magic, and with this, altering the World and shifting its state of consciousness. I am a believer that us, the writers, can bring change and challenge through poetic consciousness!



Many thanks ANCA for spending such a wonderful time with us, we would like to conclude this interview with a personal note, are you satisfied about your own achievements in your life? What are your plans for future?


Thank you! My “achievements” are my own personal developments. Over the years I have added so many different flavours to my own persona, growing, expanding and hopefully becoming a better person. In sense of writing I have only one dream: that my writings indeed will bring power to heal and awaken others. Making a better world! This is my greatest mission!

For the readers/listeners who wish to read/listen watch my audio/video poetry, they can find me on these accounts:

Website: http://marmoset16.wix.com/ancabruma
Blog: http://ancamihaela16.blogspot.ae
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ankh-micah-ilah
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AncaMihaela16
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjpEzx0_-IEhf2-JjBSIJw
Artist facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Anca-Mihaela-317866078233812/
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Book - "The Light of Our Beingness - I Am that You Are!..."

Written by Anca Mihaela Bruma

Copyright © 2016 Anca Mihaela Bruma 

Front and back cover ARTWORK by Dorina Costras 

Copyright © 2016
Interior Layout by Susan Joyner-Stumpf of Wildfire Publications

Interior Artwork by Dorina Costras 

Copyright © 2016 


Note: This is a full COLORED poetry book, including as well
Dorina's Costras paintings, which depict so well my own writings.

Product Details

ISBN
9781329819658
Copyright
Anca Mihaela Bruma 
                                    (Standard Copyright License)
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Lulu.com
Published
January 9, 2016
Language
English
Pages
76
Binding
Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink
Full color
Weight
0.45 lbs.
Dimensions (inches)
6 wide x 9 tall

  

































Front Cover
Artwork by Dorina Costras
Graphic design by Anca Mihaela Bruma
and Susan Joyner-Stumf



Back Cover

Graphic design by Anca Mihaela Bruma
and Susan Joyner-Stumf


All of the material contained in this book is the original work of the author. No part of this book may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any way or form or by any means electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise without the written permission of the author. First published 2016 by Lulu Press (lulu.com) 3101 Hillsborough St. Raleigh, NC 27607 Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. 


Book available on Lulu.com Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

Contact Information: 
Website: http://marmoset16.wix.com/ancabruma 
Email: anca.mihaela.coach@gmail.com
"The Light of Our Beingness - I Am that You Are!..."


Dedication 

I dedicate this book to everyone! May your sense of understanding benefit your deepest needs and wishes. My heartfelt thanks to each person who truly believes and supports me wholeheartedly! I would also like to thank Dorina Costras, whose art I have used in my book, for her astonishing talent and amazing support.

Foreword 

 ~ by Susan Joyner-Stumpf, Wildfire Publications ~ 

When I think of Anca’s Poetry, and the Artist behind the words, the first thing that comes to mind is: Ascension. Ascension means “the act of rising to an important position or a higher level.” Higher level applies to me. With each word that Anca writes, I recognize a newer vibration. 

When you listen to her reciting her poetry, it is quite a transcendent journey. It is almost like an out-of-body-experience, for you feel like you are going into a trance from simply her lightessence and mystical, angelic, melodious voice that enters your being and from there, we become aware that, when we create, we become Oneness in the Divine Order, even in a world strewn wild with bits and pieces. We come together, singular fractals beneath an ever-watching God-smile. 

Anca gives voice to words that have flown from all the selves that ever have been and ever will be, Eternal-ness. Within the power of her poetic tool, she can take a flame and you recognize its burning; she catches a whisper and screams it into existence. All the Everythings, that Happiness, Love, Loss and Self-Revelation Was and IS gathered there, in your thought processes, in that one fleeting moment, spreading its immortal seed so that others can spiritually prosper from lyrical art come to Life! The Sublime and Ethereal Qualities of her work allure you in their cosmic tracks - amazing beyond description. 

There is nothing tangent that comes close to her - she is a Universe within herself. Her language power is pure and divine Real-ness because she has just the right magic to step into emptiness and make it whole once more. 


Foreword 

~ by James Cairns ~ 

One cannot help but be pulled into the gravity of the artist’s poetry. The power inherent in her lines will strike out at you, and cast you into infinities of multi-dimensionality of timeless time and endless space: a quantum view of nature and life. 

As a young girl the artist was already tuning into the transformation of life forces all around her, and began to transfer these observations to page - a quest, she knew, would have no end. 

The geometrical patterns of nature were beckoning to her, and the mathematical structure of life was pleading for her attention. 

“… I subtracted myself with so much ability, 
Transition of angles and sides became plurality, 
Remembrances arose from me with complexity.” 
(Soul Cosmology) 

It was only after leaving her homeland that these shapes and transformations began to take shape and complete their puzzle … the artist could see the picture forming and drew strength from it. She saw meaning where others could only see disharmony and disunity. 

Anca’s mission is to help others complete their own life puzzle, to know themselves, find themselves, and thus her writings are infused with messages of hope, lattices of love, the priceless pearls of wisdom, and utterances of joy in self-discovery. 

She has a holistic approach to her works, acquired over the years through reading literary classics and studying the works of transcendental thinkers and seers such as Rumi and Hafiz, who so well depict a higher consciousness and wisdom in their search for the meaning of Life. 

“… Yes! … I am here … and I can hear 
all these mental asymmetrical matrices 
as an Ancient soul 
living a contemporary odyssey …” 
(Cyberspaced Truths) 

Anca is a firm believer in the ‘total artist,’ and synthesizes her own view of how she visualizes and interacts with the world, by blending the arts, and bending the fundamental rules of these arts for the sake of art itself. She has creatively transformed her own writings into a visual art, in much the same fashion that Débussy and Stravinsky reformed the structural principles of music, replacing them with structural visualizations of art. 

“… No meta-logic … nor extra-language … 
You rose above the canons of False and True, 
passing through the song and rhythm of your own life, 
while Infinity found shelter in the depths of your eyes …” 
(Agape) 

Anca brings renewed hope into our lives through a healing by words, where colors are as vibrant as those of a vibrant rainbow of new beginnings and fresh starts, where patterns shift and collide and the geometric shapes of life assemble and re-assemble in mathematical purity and perfection. 

“… Echoed Time graciously bleeds rainbows 
of your pixelated soul! 
Intoxicated violets hide 
in the sweetness of our kiss!“ 
(Ethereal Awareness) 

The lyrics of her poetry are as rhythmical notes on musical bars revealing the psalms of life in sweet adagios, concertos of chaos and powerful symphony whose final crescendos sweep us into eternal bliss, surrealism and universal dimensions of exquisite transcendental realization of the circle of life. 

“… Mature circumstances demanded to write my manuscript, Practicing arpeggios, it was my only way how to depict, 
With white spaces and forgotten dreams, it was my script …” 
(My Transcript) 

Exploring the linguistic boundaries and the overlap between poetry and cosmology, Anca freely punctuates and conjugates episodes of time in her works to reflect her vision on the phases of life and the universe, and we are released from all limitations into an expanse of cosmic awareness, of infinite semantic possibilities where all the beautiful swirling components shape and re-shape themselves, combine and re-combine till at last we witness the eternal universal truth, as if being re-born, resurrected in a new form of being. 

“… Time meets Time, where beginning never ends ... 
Within an hour of Eternity 
Time plays its silent symphony 
in breathing echoes 
of the eternal recurrence … “ 
(Hour Of Eternity) 

“… I forget to put commas and full stops overnight, 
Historia bivalente has been brought to the spotlight! 
As a fraction of our Existence is perplexed into the sunlight, 
And a chorus of dreams repeat psalms under starlight!“ 
(Light Of Knowingness) 

As much as we may feel pain, deception in love, the hurt of past experience, the artist invites us to embrace those moments, to gain strength from them, to then take the path she has followed and to finally unburden ourselves of them and walk into the light of healing with her, a light she wishes to share with us all. Her poetry is a tribute to the rich and common world heritage of poetry which unites people through the themes of humanity, spirituality, mysticism, and the search for the inner truth on the journey of life … “The end is where we start from”... (T.S. Eliot – “Little Gidding”). 

“… And I crave for volumes of light 
in this glaring darkness of hope 
succumbing throes of cacophonous silence 
cocooned in webs of deceit 
awaiting the promised resurrection.“ 
(Cathartic Eclipse) 

Preface 

~ by Anca Mihaela Bruma ~ 

I like to "label" my own writings as being "sensually mystique" or "mystically sensual", a tool and path for women to claim their own inner feminine powers. This is the main leitmotif in my lyrical writings. Through my writings I try to surpass what some would consider the limitations of human beings, but I always emphasize the essence of the Woman, of the Goddess. 

The main theme, Love, is basically presented as a transformative experience in life, the energizing force in the universe, empowering the creative female. 

When I write, I see it like a painting in front of my eyes, using lots of symbolism and allegory in order to capture the infinite intelligence, catching the reflections of Truth with a strong mystic sense of Infinity, of the boundless, of the breaking out of the world of our normal finite expressions into the transcendental. Like an "architect" of a language I "build" a language within a language, a universe within another universe, using vivid, sometimes surreal, imagery which gives the poetry a transcending feeling. I shall say that my lyrical writings could be likened to a spiritual autobiography, depicting a reality behind all forms, with no space and time, a quantum view of Existence. 

Right now, I see my writings as a form of being present inside the language, a paradigm of living which is encoded in the message itself, like a poetic consciousness with a spherical view of nature, life, and love. It is related to a realization of the greater self, beyond the mundane and well known laws of the society, as an expression of both the rational and the intuitive, in a concise form of poetry, increasing awareness with new expanded meanings. 

My main inspiration in my writings is to: find yourself, KNOW yourself, with and within all your aspects of life, and manifestations of your own Being. 

Throughout time, LOVE, in its many forms has been an inspiration for countless mystics, who seek to capture the experiences in its mystical embrace. By developing a spiritual LOVE, one can reach into the deep layers of the soul, and sense its greatness and grace. In all my poems, I describe AGAPE, (a Greek word for the Biblical Godly Love). It is the kind of love which only God possesses, and not the conditioned human kind of love, based on return or response. 

This Godly type of Love is unmovable and unshakable, and only changes to evolve. The whole book is a love story of lovers whose love has survived the ages of human history, reborn every time to find again each other, as part of the world event. 

Agape-love develops your conscious self, your higher intelligence, it is a tantalizing creative force, stronger than any other forces and each and every poem describes that intense affectivity, ardent and zealous, taking the form of the divine. 

As for me, I take these inward steps every day, a continuous resurrection and revival, an inner Exodus. I allow Life to come from behind me and surprise me, and by this process I allow my own self to bloom, but remain aware of this fragile Existence, a “timeless Ethereality.” The sacredness of my own Being “screams” for the pathos of Love as “essences of your insights swing the Eternity on the edge of my Being.” In this sacred “unspoken” space, my own poetry bleeds out in rainbows and in intoxicated pixelated violets sealed by our “sweet kiss.” 

This spiritual relationship has no conditions attached to it and cannot fade with Time, in fact Time and Space cease to exist. This is not a mundane Love, of the sub-Self, but the perception of Love by Soul, a place where traits of the body are non-existent. 

I see Pathos here as a sign of Freedom, a mysterious impulse towards my own wholeness, full of Grace, creating opportunities for Self knowledge. 

The poems describe the consuming longing of the lover as well as that lover’s interior, extended beyond love itself, but in Harmony with the totality of Reality. To experience such Pathos would bring a sense of liberation from the mundane, and maturity in understanding Life beyond law and customs. These very same conditions are necessary for my own evolvement towards wholeness. 

All the poems emphasize the main theme of change and challenge: creative change, spiritual change and relational transformation. 

I use my lyrical writings as a poetic guidance, a longing for a more meaningful life, a renewed relationship with the Divine. My poems represent the seasons of life and passage of Time, a spiritual adventure where the highest understanding of Unity is the key. The writing radiates a secret timeless knowledge about the Mystery of cyclical change, the interconnection and fusion at the same time between Life and Death, the inner turmoil during this spiritual “adventure” and its revelations, explored with complex and laconic elegance. It is highly evocative writing, reflecting deeply on the challenges of Life, providing spiritual solace that transcends traditional understanding; a longing for meaning, for metamorphosis of Life, Love of your own Being (“Every step is birth, every step is death.” Hermann Hesse “Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte”). 

The theme of futility and impermanence is used frequently, requiring that I reconcile myself with myself, harvest a lifetime of learning, get that sense of fulfillment and richness, let go and discard those things which no longer serve my purpose. 

Life takes on a new meaning for me, becoming deeper, more acute, more complete, an opportunity to go beyond the surface of my own Life and learn about my own Self and the inner purpose of all things. There becomes a need to balance the light and darkness within my being, and to learn how to live with or without it. All the writings are like a calling for wisdom to spring forth eternally within myself over and over again, each time newly fragranced, newly seasoned, continuously and ceaselessly rejuvenated!



"The Light of Our Beingness - I Am that You Are!..."

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Poem sample from the book

I Feel You!...


I feel you in everything...
in the glorious nights inside your incandescent eyes
where butterflies knit my dreams and compass my heartbeats.

I feel you in everything...
while resting your sigh in the corner of a letter
and the blue grass kneels at the border between dream and spring.

I feel you in everything...
in the rhythmical sunsets of your absences and prologues,
within your unspoken words turned into sleepless stones.

I feel you in everything...
when I conjugate your breath with my acoustic verses,
in the silence of your footsteps, on the tip of my eyes.

I feel you in everything...
when I swallow the octave of your presence,
a fluorescent beauty rustling in theatrical infuses.

I feel you in everything...
in all scarlet concentric moments of the past,
in the euphoric tempo of samsaric and philharmonic sensations.

I feel you in everything...
in all your silent similarities and rippled reflections,
when your thoughts are juxtaposed with the pattern of my breathing.

I feel you in everything...
when your restlessness rotates inside my lyrical veins
and I wonder behind my face highlighting your insights.

I feel you in everything...
during all echoless autumns and multiplied mornings,
when you come to resurrect me from my own lasting winter.

I feel you in everything...
when I write this letter now and seal it with a kiss!
Mon chéri! It has been grown inside my heart!...

(Anca Mihaela Bruma - 12th February, © 2015)


Artwork by Dorina Costras

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