ISABELLA SORDI

 

Now And Then I Think Of You

 

Now and then I think of you, and memory

fades into the aura of summer.

Then I relive you in a memory,

in the cheerful, colorful gerbera,

in the calla, precious and decadent,

in the wisteria cloaking the porch.

So I think of you, my friend, and see you again

in this rain that resembles weeping,

in my life, fragile and restless.

 

Ogni tanto ti penso

 

Ogni tanto ti penso e la memoria

si stempera nell'aura dell'estate.

Allora ti rivivo in un ricordo,

nella gerbera allegra e colorata,

nella calla preziosa e decadente,

nel glicine che ammanta il porticato.

Così ti penso, amica, e ti rivedo

in questa pioggia che assomiglia al pianto,

nella mia vita, fragile e inquieta.

 

ISABELLA SORDI

 

ISABELLA SORDI: Isabella Sordi, born in Udine, Italy, in 1954, is a retired teacher of English Literature, who lives now in Venice, where she taught at the local High School after taking her degree in Modern Languages at the University of Udine. She did classical studies and has devoted herself to poetry since she was a child, always receiving positive reviews and winning numerous first prizes. In 2008 she published her first book of poems, “Un Dio felice”, Vitale, Sanremo, third place at the “Città di New York” and, in 2013, “Sopra I cieli di Berlino”, Helicon, Arezzo, fourth and fifth in both national and international contests. She is present in many literary anthologies and her latest book, “In un vorticoso tango” (Helicon, Arezzo, 2022), was classified first at the International Poetry Competition “Certamen Apollinare Poeticum”, in 2023. In 2022 she was the President of the Jury in the Intercontinental Literary Contest “Le Nove Muse” in Venice. Member of the Jury at Grottammare and, in 2025 at “Voci-Città di Roma”. She is a a member of Writers Capital Foundation and a Distinguished Scholar of IAE (International Academy of Ethics). Official Member CIESART and Rinascimento-Renaissance Millenium III.