Tuesday, April 2, 2013

B is for Before

We've been here for a long time, ready for the long ride. We've been makers of history, we've been shaping culture and taming nature. 

Scornicesti is situated in an arid, agricultural area and it has been atested that the ground where our town stands today has been populated since late neolithic. There have also been discovered traces of Dacian settlements from the 2nd century B.C. and Daco-Roman settlements from the 1st and 2nd century A.C., which is a very important period in the shaping of the Romanian culture, hence the name "makers of history."

traces of the past...
how much of what must have been
is still underground?

they made history
and history changed with them -
cherishing today

In 1918, Nicolae Ceausescu, the former president and dictator of Romania is born in Scornicesti, which was at that moment just a small village. After Ceausescu became Romania's president, Scornicesti started blooming and it finally received the status of town in 1989, shortly before the Revolution which lead to the removal of Ceausescu from his position and then to his death. Ever since Scornicesti stagnated, as if the time had stopped.

what once ascended,
reaching a maximum bloom
is now forgotten


Stema Scornicești 
 This is one of the town's emblem's over time.


27 comments:

  1. I really like the last one best! I'm really likeing your theme!
    Dani @ Entertaining Interests
    #warriorminion

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  2. Ahh Adriana I like your theme! I will look forward to reading more :) Happy A-Z'ing!

    AJ Lauer
    #atozchallenge helper minion
    Twitter: @ayjaylauer

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  3. How the mighty do fall, happens to us all.

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  4. Love the first haiku. It's sad but makes me want to go out and find all the things that have been lost or forgotten.

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  5. Everything cycles
    The present bleeds from the past
    and our future too

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  6. Great theme and very interesting. It seems that, with a few exceptions, dictators don't last that long.

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  7. Wow! I love your haiku, especially the one about history changing them, and changing history. Thank you for sharing!

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  8. As usual, Adriana, you write beautiful posts. Love this bit: "what once ascended,
    reaching a maximum bloom is now forgotten." Makers of history, indeed, and yet so little is known.

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  9. Loved the second haiku, actually, I loved them all, but I really loved the second. I'm learning something different and definitely interesting on all the blogs I've visited today. Loved this one. Great post!

    Karen

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  10. Very cool emblem. Great haikus. I do wonder what's underground in most cities.

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  11. I love how you illustrate the history with haiku. I'm having a lot of fun reading your posts!

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  12. Beautiful. Very good work. Love learning something new :)

    Sarah Allen
    (From Sarah, With Joy)

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  13. I find it quite interesting that the shield was placed beneath the structure, perhaps a reference to how there might still be undiscovered artifacts lurking underground?

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  14. I am working on a Master's in TESOL now. I should graduate next year. I love this field. It's great to find a blogger in a related field.

    Dropping by from A to Z. First year participating.

    Brett Minor
    Transformed Nonconformist

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  15. what once ascended,
    reaching a maximum bloom
    is now forgotten
    Reminds me of Ozymandias :)
    Damyanti @Daily(w)rite
    Co-host, A to Z Challenge 2013

    Twitter: @AprilA2Z
    #atozchallenge

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  16. This is wonderful. I'm enjoying learning more about Romania. The haikus were wonderful!

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  17. I love history...whether learning about my own country or someone else's. Good luck with the challenge! I participated last year and had a blast!

    Donna L Martin
    www.donasdays.blogspot.com

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  18. This is quite intriguing, and the haiku's evocative and haunting. :-)

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  19. It's interesting to learn more about Romania, and your haiku's really make it come to life.

    Julie

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  20. I love ur haikus!! Keep writing! :)

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  21. Interesting post and I like the haiku.

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  22. Well, how sad. Why did they remove him if he was doing so much good for the town?

    Shannon at The Warrior Muse

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  23. Most interesting post. Beautiful imagery and lots of information for a win/win.

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  24. Wow! allot of coordination and nice writing. I love the way you mixed poetic challenges with prose.

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  25. love learning new things. never knew that about romania! great job on the haiku :)
    Nutschell
    www.thewritingnut.com

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  26. I feel the same is true of my parents' homeland of Portugal. Once (a loooong time ago) a major power in the world, it's now hardly known.

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