VETRI Carlo Betocchi Sei vetri della finestranell’angolo della stanzasono la strada maestrad’ogni nuvola che avanza. Io, dal mio angolo pigrotendo insidiosi agguatidai poveri tetti emigroverso quei correnti prati. Non sono prati, sono lentisogni: sogno non è vero,sono fuggiti armenti:e nemmeno questo è vero. Vedi quell’azzurro. Cieloè il cielo, bambino mio,con la nuvola, nel cielo,va la volontà…Read more Carlo Betocchi: Vetri / Glass panes
Poetry
Mario Luzi: Come tu vuoi /As you wish
“The poetry of Mario Luzi is permeated and sostained by the certainty that it may undergo change but is always true to itself, that is, to the spiritual essence of the universe.” Franco Fortini COME TU VUOIMario LuziLa tramontana screpola le argille,stringe, assoda le terre di lavoro,irrita l’acqua nelle conche; lasciazappe confitte, aratri inertinel campo.…Read more Mario Luzi: Come tu vuoi /As you wish
Trilussa: La guerra / War & L’Ape / The Bee
After a very long pause, I've prepared two poems for today, for this Easter day, 2026. Easter is usually symbolised by a dove carrying an olive branch in sign of peace. I have searched the skies; there are no doves carrying olive branches to be seen, just blazing skies, and what I imagine to be…Read more Trilussa: La guerra / War & L’Ape / The Bee
Giuseppe Ungaretti: I fiumi/ The rivers
“[The rivers] is the very moment in which my poetry and I become truly self-aware: my poetic experience is the exploration of a personal continent of hell*, and the poetic act, once fulfilled, provokes and liberates, whatever the cost, the idea that only in poetry can one seek and find freedom.” Giuseppe Ungaretti in a…Read more Giuseppe Ungaretti: I fiumi/ The rivers
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