Constantin Stancu
WHEN DIAMONDS BREAK...
Adrian Botez presents the sense of
existence in the volume of verse called Book of propheciesW}* these
senses which enlighten the being, elevated and opens new perspectives to the
soul willing to get redemption. It is a spiritual courage as in past times,
times to fall, to confess prophecies, about its secret, about verticality in
thought, to offer force to the thought.
The poems of the writer come in a profound
conviction in the Christian values, assimilated through his personality,
modelled by own suffering, own sickness, the light shedding on anyone who wants
to seek the matrix, the essences - Christ dimension.
AH are dynamic by means of literary means
apparently classical, touched by modern forms of artist's rebellion, pushed to
the limit: MANE, TEkEL* FARES {^umbered, weighed, shared).
This words of tenderer are
structured in four parts: The Book of Prophets, The Book of voices, gestures
and silence, The Book of magic songs, The Book of Apocalypse. It is a
structure with signification, these are four canonical Gospels, the being next
to divinity has four faces, the world with four dimensions, four are the earth
directions to focalize in the vertical direction of faith.
The prophecy is about the newly bom in a
precise time, about judgement, angel, day-night, Christ-flowers, flowers under
ashes, divine, working harmony.
The dynamics of the world comes from
words, from symbolic confession and a linear one, culminating in silence as
a full confession of the one who says light. And the voices of water, bat with
empty mouth, man, death, art, death and supreme form of words: silence, motif
taken from Scripture (Book of Ezekiel), with profound meaning in the future.
The magic song, takes the place of Psalm
in the Carpathian Land, it is the swing of nature, touch of fir tree shadow,
reality sadness, Divine presence...
The last book is the book of punishment,
but also a perfect discovery of Christ, based on the pillars of creation: will,
order, love, song to the world's edge.
The
big message of the entire volume is arborescent, sending ideas to the tree of
life and death, to the tree of knowing the good and evil. The verse oscillates
between tenderness and imprecation, it gathers lighting words and soil words,
sometimes mud words, the artist's rebellion before the fall is real, the simple
joys fill the poem, the great motifs of Romanian culture or universal culture
they and are carefully worked on as it is necessary in a prophecy. From this
point of view, Adrian Botez takes the risk of going to the limit, where the
poem can explode in vowels and consonants. There are positive energies at the
poet, but also some negative ones, the prophecy is not a comfortable one, the
writer has the meaning to say, to be silenced, to confess the truth and beauty
somehow, to accept divine judgement, as last instance, overcoming the human
instances,... There is an extraordinary pressure on that who has to share
secrets to the world. It is a time for sharing, for hearts to sing, for
dedicated ones to be numbered... God is active in the poem and in the world ...
A hand, suddenly, writes on your heart the verdict you cannot get out of, the
circle-sentence
from which you cannot escape, words that
came from another world for this joyful world in fast and mundane glory...
(...)Although the book opens to the
prophecy, it is concrete, it comes from man as divine words.
The necessity of sacrifice, the aching
flesh, the painful burden, in this path on earth only Christ, the guide...
The vision of the poet mends with the one
of the prophet (...). The poem is dense, the symbolistic is profound, it goes
through faith and world history, the seer becomes complete, as only Christ can
BE. This sight in four dimensions is of divine nature, the poet gets it from
words, draws attention on the vision, it is possible that the man can see in
the end, if he assumes perfect state, in truth...
(...) There are perfect things in the
world, the flower has a secret of perfect white, the resurrection comes from
the springs, it is a mystical wedding in the clouds, the treasure of divine
harmony is confessed in the wedding, in the Virgin... - The Secret of the
Flower
It is the voice of water, running water
from world to world...the poet writes for creation in assemble, it is cosmic
writing, the letters are angles ...
Metaphysic words is presented in the poem Solving
metaphysics, inside which is the secret, they all shrug, they do not
understand, nut they are intrigued by interior metaphysics of man touched by
grace...
(...) In these poems the lyrics of a poet
run through by verse can be felt. (...) the poems have the modern graphy of
that who rebels on immediate reality, words without capital letters, the broken
verse, modelled by untold pain, but in the presence on divine name correctly
written in capital letter, clearly brings the style of old prophets, who
honoured the Creator, in old Hebrew, it is known, there were special words,
used only to confess God, it was something secretive, the devotion of the one
who wrote was perfect, pious a piety necessary to get out of daily muddy words
Adrian Botez, starting from the manner to
be a prophet, goes all the way in this volume, the examples are taken from the
Old Testament, from the writings of great prophets or other prophets, the
influence is penetrating, there the images are much more shocking, to shed
light on the divine will. Actually, specific to prophetic writing is the manner
to watch things, through the Eyes of God and, then, the level of fall of sin
can be seen as raging the human being. For the poet, it is necessary to
re-arrange the Christian view of the New Testament, to see things through the
Eyes of Christ, and Adrian Botez makes a visionary effort, going to the
Messiah, as Universal Saviour. [...].
The volume deserves a more careful study,
die themes, the motifs, the words and the silence of the artist are calculated
when set in work [...] the visionary instinct of Adrian Botez does not let him
be, it is the instinct of reincarnated poem ...
There are connection words which offer
force to the poems: the cathedral of untold song, it is not peace —
it is distance, smell of gods at the table, roof for the soul smell of a star,
lips burning in silence, bird storms, green earthquakes, it is so much darkness
in the daily thought, the mathematic order of the song ...
The time comes: MANE, TEKEL, FARES! The
poet does not force anyone to bow to him, he is lightening and devoted to the
Light of Sword, the real universe falls and stops the sight, then pens the
landscape, beyond immediate reality ...
(...)
The final themes are uncovered: the wedding, the eternal knights^ the death,
the nameless death, the lost prophet, hope, eons ... The prophet finds his
place in a world without prophets, the poem is changed the world in the eon ...
About
the Love Spirits (Seraphims) Adrian Botez has the revelation: nabove
love of God -only deep mystery: Faces God/Three" Constantm
Stancu 31st of May 2011, in Agero-Stuttgart magazine, week
43/2011
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Adrian Botez, Book oj"prophets; „Rafet"
Publishing House, Ramnicu Sarat - 2010
