Florence
Here is Florence
with her dreams folded
Like flowers on
the capitals,
Where I sought
love;
I sucked the
nectar
From those
flowers like a bee
Suspended over
the expanse
Of ancient
memories.
I love the
Renaissance wind
That bends
marble memories
And the sigh of
the foliage
In the portico
where, drunken, we huddled:
You, Dante, and
I, Beatrice.
Florence, a
suspended dream
On Giotto's
ancient bell tower
Which resounds
with the days
Sated by the
burning heat,
Slippery like
silence.
Brunelleschi
observes
From the top of
the dome
Our bodies,
sweaty and clinging
Like ivy around
The columns of
life,
In ecstatic joy
of the senses.
Florence: the
Baptistery,
The Cathedral,
bells that ring
Timeless hours
and days gone by
Among lovers'
sighs
In the shadow of
the temples,
In the shadow of
the roots of history,
Of a time gone
by:
Dante in exile,
exoduses and wars,
The David as an
emblem of past glories.
Michelangelo’s
Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Night
Glance sideways
The death of
time,
Among patrons,
Lorenzo the
Magnificent
And traveling
refugees.
Florence winks
at the sun
Her eyes dazzled
From the mirror
of marble
Monumental
facades,
Reflection
upside down
Of the sky now
that everything
Succumbs to
barbaric fate
She hears the
toll of solitude
That evening
opens to the silence.
© Franca Colozzo
Orpheus And Eurydice
Eurydice was
caught in the fatal snare,
Orpheus broke
the promise given
To bring his
bride back to life.
Into the kingdom
of shadows she goes,
Hades resounds
with her moans.
Zephyr does not
blow on the Styx,
I see Charon
among naked souls.
A prolonged and
mournful howl is heard
Amidst cascades
of frayed memories.
Peace always
proclaimed in a voice
shakes the walls
of my great sorrow.
I descend into
Hades with uncertain step
In search of my
Eurydice.
Peace, I
proclaim to the world that does not say
‘End’ to the war
in the Middle East,
Gaza more and
more hell on earth,
I see no Mercy
beyond the barbarity.
©Franca Colozzo (Italy)
FRANCA COLOZZO
Dr. Arch. FRANCA COLOZZO (ITALY): Member of UIA - UNION OF INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTS |
former Teacher of Drawing and History of Art
also abroad, in Istanbul (TURKEY), on behalf of the Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (M.A.E.) | Poet | Artist | Writer | multilingual author|
recipient of n°4 honorary PhD | highly internationally awarded | freelancer
| UN SDGs & UN DESA Blogger | former Member
of UN ECOSOC (CSW67) | GGAF
(USA), Italian Chapter | WEF - Lifelong Honorary Member | Ambassador of Peace
on behalf of several NGOs from Pakistan (former CEO of IHC- INTERNATIONAL
HARMONY COUNCIL, a sister of INSPAD
(Islamabad - PAKISTAN); from INDIA (MERLE REBIRTH); Italy Chapter on behalf of WIP – WORLD INSTITUTE for PEACE
(NIGERIA), etc. | Executive
Director for Sustainability &
Climate Change and contact person for the Transparency Register of the European
Commission and Parliament, on behalf of
GPLT - GLOBAL PEACE LET’S TALK (London, UK),
founded and chaired by Dr. Nikki De Pina
| Member of the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY of
ETHICS, founded and presided over by Dr. Jernail S Anaand (INDIA) | CEO/Executive Director of RRM3 -
RINASCIMENTO RENAISSANCE - Millennium III, founded and presided over by Prof.
George Onsy (Cairo, EGYPT) | Founder of many groups on social media|
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