Saturday, 28 February 2009

Poem by Paola Di Gennaro


Raison perdue

Juggling with drops of thought

In a silent hilly self.

Drawing a cigarette that I will never smoke

A tattered doll on a windy beach

Who stares at the waves’ surf

White and broken

Soul taking liberties

With a crunchy landscape

Melting in the sand.

The strings of harmony in my brain

Are loose as grasshoppers’ smiles

I thought there was something to find

Somewhere, in our lost garden.

I woke up in a deserted light of rusty specks

I called you, and you were waiting in the wrong place

In the wrong time, in senseless candour.

I shouted over the shyness of time

On a silly but stable sea-hearted rock.

Opening a window at which I will never show

Naked on a white fur carpet of idiosyncrasies

Which nurtures ambitions

In place of me

Eyes eager for meeting a miracle

With a sour echo

Dissolving in the walls.

The past of instincts on my fingertips

is feeble as an old man cry

I saw a truth, once, that was sticky

As squeezed petals on cold marble.

I stood up in the soft gentle breeze of pearly drops

Out again, looking for my muse coming in desire

And I stopped there

at the edge of divinity.

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