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A river of thoughts,
emotions and feelings, it’s you,
that flows on this brown earth
and meanwhile time passes
and everything is consumed:
faded memories, yellowed photographs,
distant feelings, the wind in your hands.
A lonely river, from the mountain,
whirling downstream precipitates,
I’m blessed with its glitter,
kidnapped I follow the trail,
as nymph of the woods, with adorned rose buds,
vain, I‘ve mirrored there, hypnotic is the show:
on blue and trembling algae, dragonflies fly,
in the stagnant water, tadpoles swim,
on the rusty and damp rocks, frogs croak,
splash of water on the stones bounce,
scent of resin pours in the coniferous woods,
I, "faun", in a bucolic landscape, meditating,
in the shade of an ancient tree, play the flute,
among the branches of the birds the song
is heard,
iridescent droplets shine on the tender grass,
industrious ants, on the gravely sand,
try to fill the holes,
The trout darting, the oblong river rises,
and with the thought, the past age of my life:
how many laughs on the the river bed,
my brother, "Glauco" fisherman,
failed prophet, soaked wet,
with the fishing rod and the sack half empty,
mortified he justifies saying:
"The fish on the hook didn’t bite".
At dusk the shadows
are reflected on the millenary river,
that never ends to slide,
on the crystalline water I’d like to lie down.
(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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