O poesia tu più non tornerai

Dino Campana

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O poesia tu più non tornerai

Eleganza eleganza

Arco teso della bellezza.

La carne è stanca, s’annebbia il cervello, si stanca

Palme grigie senza odore si allungano

Davanti al deserto del mare

Non campane, fischi che lacerano l’azzurro

Non canti, grida

E su questa aridità furente

La forma leggera dai sacri occhi bruni

Ondulante portando il tabernacolo del seno:

I cubi degli alti palazzi torreggiano

Minacciando enormi sull’erta ripida

Nell’ardore catastrofico

Oh poetry never will you return

Dino Campana

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Oh poetry never will you return

Elegance elegance

Taut bow of beauty.

The flesh is weary, clouded is the brain, wearied

Grey odourless palms stretch

Before the desert of the sea

Not bells, sirens that lacerate the blue

Not songs, cries

And on this furious aridity

The weightless form from sacred dark eyes

Undulant carrying the tabernacle of the breast:

The cubes of buildings tall tower

Threatening massive on the steep slope

In the catastrophic ardour

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Translation ©Matilda Colarossi

The original poem O poesia tu più non tornerai is from Inediti (unpublished works) by Dino Campana and can be found at: http://www.liberliber.it/mediateca/libri/c/campana/inediti/pdf/inedit_p.pdf
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