POEMS
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2025 Earth Day
Giorgio Caproni’s verses emphasize the interconnectedness of nature and humanity, urging against the destruction of ecosystems for profit. He laments that love ceases where nature dies, and reflects on the potential beauty of Earth in humanity’s absence, highlighting the dire consequences of environmental degradation.
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2024 World Poetry Day
Garden among flames by Ibn ʿArabī Ibn ʿArabī (1165-1240) was an Andalusi Arab scholar, contemplative mystic, Sufi poet, and philosopher who was very influential within Islamic culture and religion. Ibn ʿArabī is considered a saint by some scholars and Muslim communities. In his poetry, there are traces of the Sufi metaphysical concept of “Wahdat ul-Wujud”…
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2023 World Poetry Day
Laudes Creaturarum[Cantico di Frate Sole] by St Francis of Assisi It is one of the oldest poems in Italian literature, composed in the illustrious Umbrian vernacular and not in Latin because Saint Francis wanted to reach a vast audience. The metric form of the composition is rhythmic assonance prose or rhymed with stanzas of two,…
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2022 World Poetry Day
La Luna di Kievby Gianni Rodari Chissà se la lunadi Kievè bellacome la luna di Roma,chissà se è la stessao soltanto sua sorella…“Ma son sempre quella!– la luna protesta –non sono mica un berretto da nottesulla tua testa!Viaggiando quassùfaccio lume a tutti quanti,dall’India al Perù,dal Tevere al Mar Morto,e i miei raggi viaggianosenza passaporto. senza…
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2021 World Poetry Day
Remembering Adam Zagajewski, who died on March 21, 2021 …One brief poem from his collection Eternal Enemies: DEFENDING POETRY, ETC. Yes, defending poetry, high style, etc.,but also summer evenings in a small town,where gardens waft and cats sit quietlyon doorsteps, like Chinese philosophers. Bibliography Zagajewski, Adam, and Clare Cavanagh. Eternal Enemies. New York: Farrar, Straus…
Massimo Lollini 