Ella Leynard
Love
Love is not restricted to closeness world,
it is a world in itself,
apparently you can pin the moment, vaguely, anyway,
in fact, it has no beginning, as there is no ending to it,
love is the closest to springs, growing in profusion,
and by sharing and being lavished on the loved one,
it speeds its pace, it can, at times, be seen springing
if eyes can look the right way.
Ella Leynard (real name Diana Ștefănescu) was born in Bucharest, Romania. She has been teaching English at the National College Iulia Hasdeu, in Bucharest since she graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest in 1993. She is also a translator having translated into English selected poems from the work of the Romania poet G. Bacovia including Poezii/Poems (1995) and Flori de Plumb/Flowers of Lead (2018). Her original Romanian-language poetry volumes include Poems (2013), Verses (2016), We Have Time to Love (2018), Unveiling Time (2018), Explosion of Words (2022), and Love at the Root (2022).