Geanina Medana

I am currently doing editing for my first poetry book, Timeless, and am working on a poetry show. Recordings you hear are rough drafts, up just until I have something finite to share with you guys. Meantime I thought would be cool so people at least can hear my voice.
The poetry is the product of the last 5 years of my life, and it is mainly romance based. I am currently working on a project to add a visual media to the words, and am collaborating with a very talented photographer for that. Images shot so far are just from test shoots, but thought Id ad some up for the poems anyway, even though the finite product will be totally different.
In my photo album you can see images from some of my performances so far, and the costume I designed for my readings.
I appreciate any feedback, and love collaborating with different artists, so please say hi any time : )))
JADE
August 10, 2003
Aetheric whispers caressed
the aggrieved auroras
from a distance...
Again and again
they flowed in with the crepuscular tide
and receded,
saddened,
drenched in awakened yearnings
'Come out of the Shadows
and smile in the green mirrors of my soul,
Muse of the Night
The vernal innocence of Us
will quench the arid earth
with jade sighs of abandon
Let go of doomed thunder clouds
stuck between you and the Sun,
and Feel the Rays of Ra
shine on your face and mine'
The ocean roared with smoldering murmurs,
and its waves unraveled the spool of fears
into oblivion -
his eyes smiled with a bright welcome,
and my wandering heart
found shelter in the safe curl of his arm
'Zamolxis... Ghost of the Sky
a blithe Now inhales the pause of Time
where eternity rests,
in the closeness of your breath merged into mine,
beyond the touch of your lips...
Do you feel
the emerald stone layer its rose petals
onto your closed eyelids?
My hand holding your infinite beauty,
soothing, with its vulnerable tremor,
the harshness of yesterday...
the violence of redemption...
the blankness of death...
Don't run from tomorrow,
Beautiful Getae...
Stay...'
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I am very atuned to my heritage...
The Dacians are a barbarian ancient people inhabiting the area of Transylvania and Romania today, and some consider them to be the originators of the Latin civilization, where the Romans migrated from initially, then settled down in Rome, becoming a migrating conquering branch that centuries later returned to conquer their old ancestors, the Dacians...
The word 'dacian' comes from 'dacos' which means 'wolf head'... the romans called them that...
Herodotus, the father of history, called them 'getae - the bravest of all thracians'... they were a very courageous and inventive people, making up in smarts what they lacked in men power... they used a tactics of intimidation and smarts that was world recognized at the time... they had, for example a unique weapon, a wolf head with a dragon's tail, hollow on the inside, which they used as a flag... when running with it in battle, the air passing thru would make horrible noises that scared the living hell out of their enemise... lolol... that's why the romans called them dacos.... but if you think about it, during the 15th c, that's what Vlad Dracul did also... he was an unusual leader that exploited the fear of his enemies to his advantage, in a unique and unusual way. well, it worked... lol
my name, Medana, is the oldest etymology i know of the word known today as 'madonna'... Medana was the daughter of the last and greatest Dacian king, Decebalus, whom Traian, upon conquering Dacia, decapitated. The king that is... later on, during the 6th century, an Irish princess called Medana became a saint, after she swore to celibacy and lead a sanctified life...
But while the Thraco-Dacian language is lost and only very very few words are known today, Zamolxis is the god of Dacian mythology... he is pretty much like Buddha, a human being that became a spiritual leader.
I use a lot of references to my dacian heritage and to Zamolxes in my writing, because I feel it very strongly.