I was invited to take part in the 📜 Collaborative Poetry Challenge entitled “Growing Humanity with Artificial Intelligence: A Sociotechnological Petri Dish with Latent Threats, Existential Risks and Challenging Prospects” When I sent my poem I specified that, being Italian, I had composed it in my mother tongue and then tried to ask an AI… Read More “Navigating the Algorithmic Abyss” 🤖⚠️
Ripropongo questo delizioso post dell’amica Pat, che mi ha fatto sorridere: 8 PAROLE CON 2 SIGNIFICATI 1. COSO Femmina.. Qualsiasi parte sotto il cofano di un’auto. Maschio……. La chiusura del reggiseno di una donna. 2. VULNERABILE Femmina… Aprirsi emotivamente a un altro. Maschio… Giocare a calcio senza usare una conchiglia protettiva.… Read More ReBlog: Maschi vs Femmine
You know Cassandro because he sometimes publishes his poems in the comments on my posts: he sent me this poem and asked me to translate it into English.It refers to yesterday’s article where I mentioned parental love.As you know, it’s easier for me to translate poems from English into Italian.I’ve had trouble with rhymes and… Read More Asking for help
Originally posted on Troubador of Verse:
(In the following poem, written today for a dear online friend ~ Louisa Zambrotta of WP’s Words and Music and Stories ~ the revolving rainbows resulted from the refractions of her crystal ring in the unaccustomed ray of sunshine made available by a slight loosening of the poet’s curtains,…
Gerard Manley Hopkins (born on 28 July 1844) was an English poet and Jesuit priest whose posthumous fame placed him among the best Victorian poets. None of his poems were published during his lifetime. In a period of traditional verse. he was an innovator in prosody (especially as regards his “sprung rhythm”, based on the… Read More Pied Beauty
Please scroll down for the English version Gli anni ’60 e ’70 in Italia furono l’età d’oro delle cover, che ci permise di importare il meglio dei nuovi ritmi provenienti dall’estero (beat, soul, pop) riproducendoli fedelmente ad eccezione dei testi. Questi a volte venivano tradotti , altre volte reinterpretati, ma più spesso riscritti totalmente, con… Read More The Sound of Silence/La tua immagine
Cassandro, whom some of you know, sent me this beautiful poem to translate into English. As you know, it is easier for me to translate from English, which is not my mother tongue, into Italian. I have had problems with the rhymes and the form, so I’m asking you for help . Do you have… Read More Asking for help
Both Geoffrey Chaucer (see here) and American poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 –1965) start their most famous works by mentioning “April” in the first line but with completely different connotations.If in Chaucer’s work, “sweet” April has a positive connotation, it means a vigorous, fertile rebirth of nature, animals and men which pushes people to embark… Read More T.S. Eliot & April /2
Dedicato a te, Donna che smorzi il tuo coloreper donar più lucea chi ti sta accanto – incapace di apprezzareil tuo splendoreunico in ogni stagione – che a volte scambipossessoper passione – prodiga sempredi vitae di amore queste parole sono per teDonnaper cantare il tuo valore. (L.Z.) – revisione – This is dedicated to you,… Read More Donna
Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” was written by the American poet Robert Frost in 1923 and published in the… Read More Nothing Gold Can Stay
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