VALENTINA MELONI

VALENTINA MELONI

BITS OF TIME

It is beats of life

I gather from you

in the rapid melting of day

fatigue dissipated into ecstasy

diluted into drops

in a lump of ire

when full flood rushes strongest

overpowering me

sour water of your dream

mixed to mine

we are immense

together and luminous

even if distant as pale stars

fading into dawn

ORANGES AND LEMONS

I have not forgotten

the scent of orange blossoms

on your hair

you have left the remains of nerols

on my bed sheets

oranges and lemon trees

bloom every sunset

on love's lips

THE DREAM

Hug me

from roots to tips

how does storm water with trees ...

when the wind comes

between the branches

embraces this body of leaves

you know

the thousand springs I watched

the sleepless nights

made of melancholic stars:

take them between your arms

and cuddle up to find the dream

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VALENTINA MELONI

VALENTINA MELONI: Born in Rome (Italy) on 5/06/1976, graduating from classical maturity she also studied classical dance and piano. She has been writing poetry and tales for several years. She lives in Valdichiana since 2007 and leads a rather retracted life in contact with woods and all the natural beauties that surround and inspire her.She writes poems, tales and aphorisms. She has published for poetry Neigiardini di Suzhou (2015), Le regole del controdolore (2016), Alambic(2017) and a bilingual haiku collection Nanita for Otata's Bookshelf (2017). Her texts were translated into English, Chinese, and Japanese and appeared in international magazines and anthologies. She isessays and reviews columns redactor in Diwali-contaminated magazine and interviews redactor in Euterpe Literature Magazine where she also cares for the haiku column Komorebi. She writes in other literature magazines and in her eco-poetry and deep ecology blogs. www.valentinameloni.com