ANNA MARIA DALL’OLIO

ANNA MARIA DALL’OLIO

GROPING: THE DEFENCE

If life is temporary business

field of light walled with love

strongly I’ll suck your sorrow

shadows won’t suck you stranger.

L’annaspo. La difesa

Se la vita è affare temporaneo

campo di luce cinto d’amore

succhierò strenua il tuo dolore

l’ombra non ti risucchierà estraneo.

GROPING: THE ATTACK

On the floor you found my soul

fallen candles crumbled walls

pots of upset sadness.

Your hands of so skilled a man

suddenly, bravely, strongly

from my soul pruned death

firstidentified in shouts

lateruprooted in despair.

L’annaspo. L’attacco.

Trovasti l’anima mia sul selciato

candele cadute muro crollato

vasi di tristezza sconvolta.

Con mani pazienti d’uomo sapiente

d'improvviso impavido imponente

rovi intricati recidesti.

Dall’anima mia potasti la morte:

prima con grida la riconoscesti

poi la strappasti con disperazione.

CARELESSLY

Carelessly

you struck the chords of my lute:

amid the crowd, my head.

Carelessly

rosethorns you hurled at me

into my soul: sore scratches

Foolishly

April turned into December

buds scorched by frost.

SBADATAMENTE

Sbadatamente

m’urtasti le corde del liuto:

la testa, via tra la folla.

Sbadatamente

mi scagliasti spine di rose

sull’anima: graffi profondi.

Sconsideratamente

aprilefecesi dicembre

gelo mi strinò le gemme

ANNA MARIA DALL’OLIO

ANNA MARIA DALL’OLIO: MA Languages (Pisa, 1985), BA Letters (Pisa, 2004). She devoted herself to poetry and playwriting. In 2005she was ranked secondin "Hanojo - via Rendevuo", a Vietnamese cultural competition for the millennial celebration of Hanoj (1010-2010). She published 4 collections of poems in Italian: "L’acquaopprime" (“Water anguishes”, 2016), “Fruttortosperimentale” (“Experimental food forest”, 2016), "Latte &Limoni" (“Milk and lemons”, 2014), "L’angoscia del pane" (“Bread is sorrow”, 2010). She also wrote "Tabelo" (“Table”, 2006), a play in Esperanto. Several Italian poets and literary critics have expressed their favorable opinions on her works. She published her poems in sundry anthologies and also wrote for a few literary magazines as well as webzines. Italian scholar Gianfranco Cotronei has recently edited “Le sirene di cartone di Anna Maria Dall’Olio” (“Anna Maria Dall’Olio’s cardboard sirens”, 2017) .a monograph about her 10-year-old literary career. Web site: www.annamariadallolio.it