CONCETTA LA PLACA

 

 

In This Mysterious Universe

 

In this mysterious universe, eternally

everyone wonders about what surrounds us.

Thousands are the unanswerable existential questions bothering the human hearts.

 

Let us turn our gaze in wonder towards the vault of heaven, aware of our uniqueness and lose ourselves with tireless thoughts in the immensity, catching traces of God in the cosmic beauty.


 

We long to see the boundless soul of the universe, but no one has ever suddenly intercepted it, insignificant as we are, except through the warmth of the sun, the twinkling of the stars

and all the heavenly bodies in the firmament.

 

Thus, the universe finds meaning in us, through the small things we do,

through the sharing of our human emotions and through love, the flame that burns alive in us,

as absolute truth and substratum of our own life.

 

We wander, with our noisy thoughts,

in the billows of our existence,

in a spasmodic search for immortality, with creativity and imagination,

while death continues undaunted to annihilate us.

 

Wanting to understand the fascinating universe

in its continuous becoming,

is like trying to stop the wave of the sea

before it crashes against the cliff.


©Concetta La Placa

 

The Meaning Of Our Existence

 

Often our state of mind

is a stream of thoughts flowing through us,

sinking into the quagmire of existential restlessness,

as we tirelessly wonder

about the meaning of our life.

We are like books with many incomplete pages

because there is an intense vitality of soul inside us

and we continue to explore our hidden depths,

to search for new shores,

to stop treading the familiar paths

and let ourselves be swept along by the current of our being.

We all yearn for inner peace and serenity,

but we stand like sailors under a constant storm

or like the nock of a bow under tension,

ready to shoot the arrow,

because the meaning of our existence

lies in the search for a spasmodic change and a new route.


 

CONCETTA LA PLACA

 

CONCETTA LA PLACA: Concetta La Placa is an Italian poet, writer and aphorist. Born in Sicily, she has lived in Rome since 2006. She is married, mother of two children and grandmother of three grandchildren. She has worked as a ministerial official in the Social Policies sector (Childhood and Adolescence and the Fight against Poverty) of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. As of 1 April 2024, she took early retirement. She started writing and composing poetry at the age of 15. Today, she is present on the international poetry scene because she has published her poems and various short stories (some of which are also dedicated to children) in numerous prestigious anthologies of various national and international contemporary authors.