Alexandra Gheorghe

“The Photograph of Eternity: A Tale of Love and War” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #244

 "Vinogradar16 Km from OdessaSeptember 3, 1941 My dear Ana,   In the depth of the night, when silence falls heavily over the battlefields, I find my escape in writing to you, as if my words could fly towards you, surpassing the inferno of this war. The sky here is dark, not with night, but with gunpowder and smoke, a veil hiding the stars under which we swore eternal love. At home, I hope the sea is as crystal clear as the color of your eyes...    And yet, in this endless fight, the thought of you is the sp...

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“A Pandemic Memoir” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #243

Day 600 "People have forgotten how to be human... They are losing themselves one by one and are bored by the abundance of life passing through their hands. Steps feel lost on the stairs of buildings that rise higher each day as if they aspire to rebuild the Tower of Babel. Researchers nowadays see themselves as minor gods and race towards vanity, losing sight of the fact that every particle within them defies immortality, being mere mortals after all. Our perfect ambitions have made us forget to look back at the earth that holds our roots. W...

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“The Fool and The Trickster ” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #239

*** "You will never be a god." ***    When you run through the city streets, at its heart, you find memories set in stone, like pages from an ancient story — a place where time flows slo...

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“Endymion - a goodbye letter” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #237

***Grant me the kiss of death and wait a moment longer, so that you may then see me eternally sleeping on the bed of stars you have prepared for me.***   I have seen you so many times, in good moments and in the darkest times of your life. I have heard your cries millions of times and then witnessed your smile, which seemed like a summer rain soothing my soul. I read your stars and gathered them as if they were all for you...but you no longer wanted them and threw them into my sky darkened by so much disappointment, sadness, a...

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“Elegy for the Lost Soldier” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #232

*** Tell me... what can be more beautiful than watching the flight of a bird on a late spring day, or even better, how it feels to experience the first snow as it settles on your pale skin.  But the feeling of happiness disappears when you see the snowflakes melting, and you are left only with a sen...

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“Fading Echoes of Us” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #231

*** "..I want you to be eternal... not like the sun or the moon, but like the chaos that was born with us and will never end... but if you become chaos, then who will I be?.." *** Every day you fight demons, and even if you don't want to acknowledge it, you lose... You cannot win....

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“Silent Symphony of Sorrow” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #228

***    The house remained desolate since he left, so suddenly... The sky seemed grayer, and the wounds, though trying to heal, no longer had enough strength... The wounds deepened with each passing minute, each second... and she was alone... The bed, in which she sank deeper and deeper, appeared like a coffin where each memory seemed buried in the folds of the sheet... Every tear wa...

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“Ariadne” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #226

*** Mirror, mirror on the wall,  Who is the monster of them all? *** Solitude has been your salvation a thousand times over, yet in the poverty of words, you be...

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“Philemon and Baucis” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #217

*** The syringes made their way to your veins caressed by time, and she stood on the edge of the abyss, watching you step towards eternal silence. *** When your kiss intertwined with mine, I felt it was our fate to be to...

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“Whispers of Midas: Love Carved in Stone” by Alexandra Gheorghe

*** "Embrace your pain, gather it into a single stone, and... if you feel like you're dying... hold on a bit longer, so you can witness your miracle!" ***       A hug can blind you so much that all you can do is feel the ground slipping away from beneath your feet... and you need it so much. You...

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“A modern Echo-Nadia” by Alexandra Gheorghe

Submitted to Contest #212

"Kiss me and take me somewhere beautiful... where neither of us will know who you are or who I am.. we will know that we are just in a beautiful place and we will kiss each other childishly. I will blush and you will smile beautifully at me like a young person without hope."***Dear father,Life among strangers is getting harder and harder! We have to pay the rent...

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