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The last bell tolls of the church,
not very far from my home,
echo, roar, the resonances
around the country hears,
remind: it’s time to pray,
but how many people
turn to the Creator to be blessed.
It’s midday, it’s almost lunch-time,
but who for a moment
will remember
those who can’t feed.
I wonder if charity and philanthropy
still exist,
very few people still practice it,
simple-minded souls are generous,
do good in the world,
in return they don’t claim love,
they’re ready to die for a worthy cause,
they will have neither glory nor honors,
but what are the awards and honors
If you’re a despicable person, an impostor.
you have wiles like the fox,
You subjugate the lambs
for personal purpose.
Among the ashy doves that flaw,
stand out one snow-white,
that often settles on the bell tower,
It symbolize the utopian, futuristic,
“universal peace”, impossible to achieve.
There’s a need of mutual love
but people die with selfishness,
alienation and bad mood.
It’s evening, the last bell tolls
announce the “Hail Mary”,
What’s the meaning of abnegation!
Let’s not live for ourselves but
to help and love others.
I see the abnegation in my mother’s tears,
when she kneels to worship
“The Madonna of the sea”,
sculpted by her son, on the garden wall.
It seems to say:
“Mother! I’ll never leave you,
How can I forget you and live on!
you gave me life so many times”.
(Iolanda Leotta is a poetess and storyteller, born in Rocca di Neto (Kr) Italy. She holds a degree in Sciences of Linguistic Mediation. She is a Cultural Mediator. Recently, her poetry book “L’esploratrice dei sentimenti e dei valori umani” has been published in Italy, by Giuseppe Aletti, editor and literary critic; it was presented at “The Federiciano International Poetry Festival”. Testimonial of the public event was Alessandro Quasimodo, son of the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Iolanda Leotta's poems have been published in National and International literary anthologies. Winner of "Premio Europa Cultura 1988" for the singularity and peculiarity of her poems. She participated in the Cultural Initiative with 4 poems selected by the publishing house Aletti:“Alessandro Quasimodo reads Iolanda Leotta” and "A. Quasimodo reads Contemporary Italian Poets" with the video poem "Solitude" included. You can view her video poems “La Fortuna”; “Fantasmi”; “L’Inganno”; “La Libertà”. on YouTube.)
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