"in unsaid reply you note how one silent breath / is more wondrous than a thousand speeches." "come muta risposta nota come un solo respiro silenzioso / sia più prodigioso di mille discorsi." Opinionaters©Martin W. BennettThey have prickly peculiar-shaped earsa mere switch of accent can immediatelystop working. Their eyes, when expedient,see similarities between chalk and…Read more Martin W. Bennett & Alessandro Ferraro: Opinionaters
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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
Trilussa: L’elezzione der presidente/The president’s election
I am by no means, not in the least, not by a long shot, in no way, on no account even just barely thinking about a Present-day-President! L’elezzione der presidenteTrilussa Un giorno tutti quanti l'animalisottomessi ar lavorodecisero d'elegge' un Presidenteche je guardasse l'interessi loro.C'era la Societa de li Majali,la Societa der Toro,er Circolo der Basto e…Read more Trilussa: L’elezzione der presidente/The president’s election
Vincenzo Cardarelli: Ritorno al mio paese / Return to my town
"nothing has changed but the living / who usurp the place of the dead" The trials of #war - Peace now for #G*za RITORNO AL MIO PAESE Vincenzo Cardarelli O memoria spietata, che hai tu fatto del mio paese? Un paese di spettri dove nulla è mutato fuor che i vivi che usurpano…Read more Vincenzo Cardarelli: Ritorno al mio paese / Return to my town
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