CLAUDIA PICCINNO

CLAUDIA

PICCINNO

LOVE ME GOD

Love me in my imperfection

And in my mistakes.

Love me in the mysterious restlessness

that envelops to my roots.

Love me God

in what I have good

and even more in what I have wrong

and deliver me from unjust and undeserved distant future.

Love me in the anger that I don’t turn into compassion,

in the gestures I have held back

in order to not cross the threshold towards madness.

Love me and give me back the innocence

of those who believe in the future,

Love me in order that I don’t lose the amazement of the present.

Love me and let me make peace with the past.

Love me God

because in the beatitude of your infinite I will rest.

DON'T TOUCH MY PEN

The schoolmates laugh at him

When he draws himself with a brown pencil

Anyway he's proud to be not pale as Big Jim.

He doesn't care about teacher's voice

When she shouted :John don't touch my pen

Because he knows she was scared.

Differences exist

He doesn't deny.

In a smile, in a gesture

In a tone of voice.

Maybe one day he will be the teacher

And he' ll try to teach his pupils

That clothes don't make the men

That each colour is useful in a rainbow

And each flower has his own scent.

GOODBYE MY LITTLE STAR

Renegade

vilified

betrayed

tarnished

slandered

killed

If this is love ...

Tell me

My little star..

Of course

You called her so

As all the cowards

I met are used to do.

I’m Noemi ‘s mother

I'm the mother of his executioner.

Renegade

vilified

betrayed

tarnished

slandered

Killed.

Goodbye my little star.

May your light

Be a lamp

over my footsteps

Where every coward satellite

Obstructs the path

In the dark night

Of this perverse humanity.

CLAUDIA

PICCINNO

CLAUDIA PICCINNO is a teacher and a scholastic referent land for education at reading. Operating in more than seventy anthologies, she has been  member of the jury in many national and international literary prizes. She was an italian editor for the international literary magazine Rosetta World Literatura in Turkey and for  Atunis Magazine in Albania. She gained almost  150 awards in poetry competitions  She has published 5 poetry collections in Italy, 2 in Serbia, 1 in Turkey, 1 is going to be published in France, another one in Turkey;  she has also written several  critical essays or prefaces about other poets’ books. She has translated from English into italian language lots of poems of authors all over the world. Her website is Claudiapiccinno.weebly.com