LIDIA CHIARELLI

LIDIA CHIARELLI

BIG SUR, SUMMER AFTERNOON

If anyone had strength to hear the invisible…

(Allen Ginsberg, from: Elegy For Neal Cassady)

We walk down the dusty path

this hot August afternoon.

A breath of wind

comes to meet us

and takes us to the shed

suspended on rocks,

eroded by the cruelty of time.

We seem to hear a chisel

slowly giving form

to a block of fragrant redwood:

"Wind Spirit" "Firebird" “Spring Dragon”:

fantastic creatures of Edmund Kara

come alive

myths and magic taking shape

before our eyes.

Carried through the timeless

we pause and listen

to the ancient ocean waves

that continue to tell his story

CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE

(for Lawrence Ferlinghetti)

The strong and bright colors

of a mural

catch me

into a spiral of lights

while I walk down Kerouac Alley

on this hot July morning

A sign in the window:

"Sit Down and Read"

invites  to enter.

The old wooden floor

creaks under my steps.

Between innumerable bookshelves

I can now breathe

the words of freedom

that here - as always -

take shape.

And you,

Lawrence Ferlinghetti,

still hang around these books

bringing your message

of solidarity and peace

to the oppressed of the earth

after all these years

you still are

"The voice of those who have no voice

the voice of the invisibles of the world…”

POINT LOBOS, MORNING

“There is nothing of the sea left but its sound”

Dylan Thomas: from “Ballad of the long legged bait”

The heavy traffic of Highway One

is behind us.

In the silence of summer

the mists of the morning

surround the dark rocks

and tide slowly caresses sand.

Little silver gleams

on the turquoise Pacific

send messages of light

as the trail along the coast

leads to secret coves

where saltiness pervades the air.

A sudden flight of cormorants

draws new geometries in the sky

and we stand and listen to

the relentless pulse of the sea.

LIDIA CHIARELLI

LIDIA CHIARELLI is one of the Charter Members of Immagine & Poesia, the art literary Movement founded in Torino (Italy) in 2007. Installation artist and collagist, award winning poet, multi-lingual translated. She has become an award-winning poet since 2011. Her writing has been translated into different languages and published in Poetry Reviews, and on Web-Sites in Europe, in the U.S.A., in Asia and in Africa. http://lidiachiarelli.jimdo.com/