In the volume of lyrics designed for children
"Trei iezi" (
Three baby goats) published in 1970, there was also the poem called
"Curcubeul" (
The Rainbow), in which Vieru, used the metaphor of the rainbow with three colours, praised the flag of all Romanians. In short period of time after the book publishing, the Soviet censorship withdrew the book from the bookstores, and the author was accused of diversion. Also in 1970, has appeared
The Abecedarul book developed by Vieru in collaboration with the writer Spiridon Vangheli. Even nowadays, this textbook, which was edited many times over time, still teaches the first class little Bessarabians. In 1989, Vieru and Vangheli also made the Latin alphabet version of
The Abecedarul. Vieru wrote, among many others, the lyrics for the soundtrack of the cartoon film
Maria, Mirabela, and the Vieru's poem
"Dragă Otee" (
Dear Otee) has been sung by Iurie Sadovnic. Later, the song was taken over by
Zdob și Zdub. In 1988, in the newspaper
Literatura şi Arta (
Literature and Art) in Chișinău, the first Latin-written text from post-war Bessarabia has appeared. The author was Grigore Vieru. In June 1989, Vieru has got the approval of the Soviet authorities to publish the weekly
Literatura si Arta in Latin writing, the editors of the newspaper mentioned that in all Soviet Moldova there were no typewriter of Latin letters, except the one from the Academy of Sciences of the
MSSR and of professor Iulius Popa from
Bălți. Under these conditions, Grigore Vieru and the editor-in-chief of
Literatura și Arta,
Nicolae Dabija, went to
Bucharest to get the typewriter for the newspaper. The Romanian authorities were delaying the answer, and the antiquarian shop from which they could buy such a device was closed these days because of some technical issues. However, Vieru and Dabija were helped by the priest Vasile Țepordei, who brought to the station a bag containing the 31 metallic signs of the Latin alphabet, cut by him from his own typewriter. In Chișinău, the Latin signs are welded to a typewriter instead of the Cyrillic ones, so
Literatura și Arta magazine became the first newspaper of Bessarabia to start systematically coming out in Latin spelling. In 1994, the neo-communists of the
Democratic Agrarian Party, who came to power in Moldova, gave up to the state hymn
Deșteaptă-te, române! (
Awaken thee, Romanian!) and proposed to the poet Grigore Vieru and the composer
Eugen Doga to compose the lyrics and music for a new hymn. They both refused. Grigore Vieru wrote in the
Literatura și Arta magazine the following: == Works ==