Un altro anno… … impilato sul già greve fardellorende arduo ogni passo verso il fottuto destino.Curva è la schienaImpossibile vedere il resto del cammino. Gomitolo srotolatoche alla finecorre veloce,incalzafrenetico il tempo. Mi accorgerò che sono giunta alla fineo sarà un improvviso precipitarenel nullaimplorando un’altra ora, una soltanto,da caricare sulle spalle,un’altra misera gugliata di filo da… Read More Birthday Blues
“Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.” (epigram tacked to the office bulletin board of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, born on 18 November 1939) “All writers are double, for the simple reason that you can never actually meet the author of… Read More Authors 🖋️
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. “ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – German novelist, dramatist, poet, and philosopher (28 August 1749-1832) “Molte persone non si prendono cura dei loro soldi finché non arrivano quasi alla… Read More Caring for Money & Time
Percy Bysshe Shelley, who died by drowning on 8 July 1822 (aged 29) in Gulf of La Spezia, (now Italy) – see here – wrote the poem “Music, When Soft Voices Die” the year before his death.This short poem , or rather, this poetic fragment, since we do not know if the poet intended to… Read More Shelley: “Music”
“The Trees”, written in 1967, is one of Philip Larkin‘s most famous and loved poems.He was an English poet, novelist and librarian, who was the first in The Times’ list of “ The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945” first published in 2008, beating the likes of George Orwell, William Golding, Ted Hughes Doris Lessing.… Read More “The Trees” 🌳🌳🌳
Charles Lamb published his poem “The Old Familiar Faces” in the 1798 collection “ Blank Verse” written in collaboration with Charles Lloyd.This was the son of the founder of Lloyds Bank and had been educated by a private tutor with the idea that he would work at his father’s bank. But finance bored him and… Read More Charles Lamb: The Old Familiar Faces/2
Ho preso parte a una rassegna di poesia amatoriale sul tema “E QUINDI USCIMMO A RIVEDER LE STELLE”.Tutte e tre le Cantiche si concludono con questa parola, ‘stelle’.Questa è la mia poesia LA SPERANZA La speranza sui davanzaliun tempo carezzando l’aria cantava.La scorsi un giorno più in làappesa a un filo : alla golaun cappio… Read More “… e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle”✍️
Two Lovers Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:They leaned soft cheeks together there,Mingled the dark and sunny hair,And heard the wooing thrushes sing.O budding time!O love’s blest prime! Two wedded from the portal stept:The bells made happy carolings,The air was soft as fanning wings,White petals on the pathway slept.O pure-eyed bride!O tender pride! Two faces… Read More True Love
Alice: “How long is forever?”White Rabbit: “Sometimes, just one second.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland” Alice: “Per quanto tempo è per sempre?”Bianconiglio: “A volte, solo un secondo”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” is a poem written by English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick, who was baptized on 24 August 1591. Herrick is best known for his “Hesperides”, a collection of 1200 of lyrical poems published in 1648. In Greek mythology the Hesperides are nymphs of the evening.The book includes “To… Read More “To the Virgins…”
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