CONCETTA LA PLACA

 

Love Is The Only Remedy

An increasingly disjointed society, 

an increasingly shattered society,

brings uncertainty to the heart,

but a ray of light, 

inescapable beam of hope, 

will be able to illuminate, still, 

our future as men 

redeemed from evil, 

men repentant and running towards the only salvation: love.

Concetta La Placa ©

Emptiness Around Me

I look at the overcast sky 

and the grey space becomes empty, 

suddenly, around me.

The city is silent and enveloped 

by thick fog and notes of desolate and melancholic sadness.

It is my city, this place invisible,

It is a ghost,

It is full of ancient affections.

Here, I cultivated frank friendships, 

tender emotions 

and I cultivated buds of love.

I wander now through silent streets, 

I cross new faces and no longer 

those known to us.  

Missing all the love of yesteryear 

forever evaporated 

together with what it meant.

Thus, in this maze of solitude, 

the heart darkens 

and I lose myself.

Concetta La Placa ©

 

This Stillness Around Me

This stillness around me

fills me 

with your bitter silence 

full of incoherent contradictions 

This silence resounds 

with its echo in my heart 

and seems to silence

the rhythm of my vital beats.

This apparent calm

conceals only a war 

underground, with no armistice between us. 

It is a tranquility 

that surrounds us and arises only from the escape from love 

that occasionally consumes you.

It is your evident emptiness of feeling

that leaves, around me, 

beyond our silence,

also my despondency.

I wonder if it will return, 

between us, 

the din of our love

and of our ancient passion.

Concetta La Placa ©

CONCETTA LA PLACA

CONCETTA LA PLACA: Concetta La Placa is an Italian poet, writer and aphorist. Born in Sicily, she has lived in Rome since 2006. She is married, mother of two children and grandmother of three grandchildren. She has worked as a ministerial official in the Social Policies sector (Childhood and Adolescence and the Fight against Poverty) of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. As of 1 April 2024, she took early retirement. She started writing and composing poetry at the age of 15. Today, she is present on the international poetry scene because she has published her poems and various short stories (some of which are also dedicated to children) in numerous prestigious anthologies of various national and international contemporary authors.