Monday, July 1, 2024

CONCETTA LA PLACA

 



 

Give The Smile Back To Syrian Children

 

The looks of the children of Aleppo have lost their amazement forever,

in return, their hearts swelled with anguish.

 

Give smiles back to the children of Aleppo.

 

All around now only bombs, destruction, desperation, rubble on display,

have been replacing their carousel for some time.

 

Give smiles back to the children of Aleppo.

 

The city is spooky

there is a lack of food, houses, toys, roads and hospitals,

nothing is normal anymore.

 

Give smiles back to the children of Aleppo.

 

Sad and bitter is their fate and because of wickedness

and of the serious and atrocious war

their glances only capture

the images of cold death.

 

Give smiles back to the children of Aleppo.

 

But the rainbow of hope and love will return and give back again

light of love and tender smiles in their hearts.

 

A World With The Colors Of Peace

 

Hisses are heard that we leave behind

strange silences.

Now, silent are the heartbreaking cries of the little innocents,

become useless sacrificial lambs.

Silenced with them are also the dirges, raised to heaven,

by their desperate mothers.

All around is silence. There is left

only a strange smoke.

It is the soot of destruction

and death

Coming from a fratricidal war.

Yet it is known that no war ever made sense,

because' it created only losers and never winners.

That is why, on my knees, and with these short verses,

I ask my God

That we lay down our arms.

Let the world arise armed

Only with olive branches,

invoking peace.

I ask that love be spread

And the feeling of brotherhood.

We all have so much need

That the world colors its borders

With the hues of peace.

 

Peace, Beyond Clouds Of Smoke

 

Here are clouds

of black SMOKE

on the horizon,

for Europe.

 

They are suspended

in a blue sky,

filtered only by

yellow sun rays.

 

They are the same

colors of the outraged

flag of

invaded Ukraine.

 

This one flies

under the breath

of the unexpected

hisses of war.

 

She is outraged

from Russian bullets,

who, out of power, leave

only fear and rubble.

 

At every moment,

courage grows

of the indomitable

Ukrainian patriots.

 

They fight

and I'm beyond

hatred and contempt

of human madness.

 

It remains in their hearts,

heartbroken,

The faint ray

of hope.

 

May PEACE

of the world

never be denied

by the invading tyrant.

 

CONCETTA LA PLACA

 

CONCETTA LA PLACA: The author, Concetta la Placa, was born in Caltanissetta in Sicily on 07/30/1960 and lives in Rome. From an early age she has always shown that she has a creative nature. She holds a degree in administration and management of social policies. She loves literature and poetry in general. She is passionate about reading and creative writing. In December 2020 her first collection of poems was published, entitled "Cosmic Love and Emotions in the Wind". It is a collection of 55 poems, all linked by a single common thread: Cosmic Love, which is love for the little things that surround us in this immensity and love for simplicity, enriched only by pure emotions and true feelings. The author has published several poems in numerous national and international anthologies of various authors and various contests to which she has contributed with her participation. The list of publications would be a bit long and is therefore omitted.

 


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