LIDIA CHIARELLI

 

 

Water Prayer

 

To Dylan Thomas, Son Of The Sea

 

Seagulls and restless rooks

challenge the wind

on this winter morning.

 

Under a pearl sky

the waves sing the rising sun -

the first glimpse of light on the horizon

  fades too soon.

 

Here and now

Dylan’s words resound:

The waters of the heart

push in their tides…*

 

And from the ancient cliff

I pause and listen to

the voice of the sea:

 

a water prayer

 

that softly evaporates

among the fleeing clouds.

 

*From: Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines (Dylan Thomas)

 

Sunrise

 

Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east...

On Beauty - Khalil Gibran

 

In the calm rustle of the morning stars

shadows recede.

Light weaves golden and pink threads:

precious tapestry in a crystal sky.

Time slips by in fragile vibrations

while I breathe that space

fed by silence and

through silence fading.

Beauty is born in the East

and gently spreads out on the horizon

 

immense and far.

 

LIDIA CHIARELLI

 

LIDIA CHIARELLI (Turin, Italy). Writer, artist, translator, founder with Aeronwy Thomas of the literary-art movement Immagine & Poesia (2007). Six nominations for the Pushcart Prize (USA). Awarded with the Literary Arts Medal (NY) 2020. Sahitto International Grand Jury Award 2021. Zheng Xin International Poetry Award, China 2021. Poetry Star, China 2022.  Member of Wiki Poesia. Her poems are translated in many languages and published in several countries around the world.