MICHELA ZANARELLA

MICHELA

ZANARELLA

Your Shadow

Go Still Barefoot

Your shadow go still barefoot

in the streets

and I'm always the one by your side

who is trying to understand the meaning

of the dunes

I don't know if you consider me such an appearance

to be light for a night

or deliberately a reed bed

born not by chance on the sand

not far from the sea

ready to stay

like a happy love that was

foam and salt accord.

On The Other Side

Of The Sky

On the other side of the sky

we will always be the same

with the soul less charged with crosses

we will have all the time

to forgive the body

that we thought ours

and to benignly touch the light.

With the heart lifted from the ground

blindly reborn to cloud

the living will call us

to make us thin scattered to the invisible.

Black Skies

Over The Night

Black skies over the night

they come in and out of the eyes

and all I can do is invoke time

when I separated the snow with the moon

without fear of cold in the fingers.

It was dark even then

but that I knew the pain

it was learning not to cry

for themselves and for lost lives.

Get astonishment and boldness

when you are a child

the light is less tight

and the sky closer

to climb over with the north wind.

MICHELA ZANARELLA

MICHELA ZANARELLA was born in Cittadella (PD) in 1980. Since 2007 she lives and works in Rome. She published the following collections of poetry: Credo (2006), Awakenings (2008), Life, infinite, havens (2009), Sensuality (2011), Meditations for women (2012), The aesthetics of the beyond (2013), The identity of the sky (2013). In Romania it came out in a bilingual edition the collection Imensele coincidenţe (2015). She is author of fiction and texts for theater. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, greek, Portuguese, Hindi and Japanese. She has got the Creativity Prize at the International Prize Naji Naaman's 2016. She is ambassador for culture and represents Italy in Lebanon for the Foundation Naji Naaman. Corresponding member of the Academy Cosentina, founded in 1511 by Aulo Giano Parrasio. She works in international relations for EMUI EuroMed University.