CONCETTA LA PLACA

 

 

Better Days

 

It is snowing

and outside and inside our hearts

there is frost.

 

Like tiny stars,

white and light,

flakes fall

from the sky.

 

Suspended in the air,

they dance silently,

but the atmosphere 

is sad.

 

Silent and still,

nature

in hibernation,

remains waiting.

 

Better days

will return

to this world.

 

GIORNI MIGLIORI

 

Sta nevicando

e fuori e dentro i cuori

c'è gelo.

 

Come piccole stelle

imbiancate e leggere,

cadono giù

fiocchi dal cielo.

 

In sospensione

danzano silenti,

ma triste 

è l'atmosfera.

 

Ammutolita e silenziosa,

la natura

in letargo,

rimane in attesa.

 

Ritorneranno

in questo mondo

giorni migliori.

© Concetta La Placa

 

I Found You In Your Absence.

 

It is in your usual absence that I found you, after years of a long silence.

 

A day like any other, between day and night, in an imprecise moment, and now

you are here in my thoughts.

 

These are now stars that illuminate the night of my heart, where shadows flit in vain.

 

You are the presence and absence of a life never lived, but imagined, and reflected in a shard of a broken mirror.

 

There have been words spoken between us, but they fell on deaf ears, which, instead of bringing us closer, distanced us.

 

Now you are a ray of light refracted and obscured by shadows in the void between us that will never be cleared.

 

Ti Ho Ritrovato Nell’Assenza.

 

E’ nella tua assenza di sempre  che ti ho ritrovato, dopo anni di un lungo silenzio.

 

Un giorno come un altro, tra giorno e notte, in un preciso momento e ora sei qui nei miei pensieri.

Questi ora sono stelle che illuminano la notte del mio cuore, dove ombre volteggiano a vuoto.

Sei presenza e assenza di una vita mai vissuta, ma immaginata, e riflessa in una scheggia di uno specchio rotto .

Tra noi ci sono state parole pronunciate, ma cadute nel vuoto, che invece di avvicinarci ci  hanno distanziato.

Ora sei raggio di luce rifratta e oscurata da ombre nel vuoto tra noi che non schiariranno mai.

© Concetta La Placa

 

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.