MARIA A MIRAGLIA

 

An Autumn Morning

Bare the trees

along the boulevard

bent by the wind breaths

their grey branches

where the last birds fly

still waiting to go

freely to distant lands

in search of the warm

a passer-by

white his hair

under the old cap

thoughtful looks at them

while going at a slow step

back to his shelter

all his past is there

and his uncertain future

his long-life memories

his cold solitude

@ Maria Miraglia

Without Knowing Where

the sky changes its colours

the fields dress in white

and then green

while I go

in search of meanings

I look around

as if unknown voices

spoke to me

each from different directions

From paths winding

towards dark places

some say

defend the weak and the oppressed

but no

let it be

others shout

men never change

remember

it all began with Cain

I stop

and almost from close by

I hear whispering

only knowledge leads away

but I know

the wise are forgotten

and live wretched lives

Meanwhile

some music comes from afar

where men dance

sweating in their coloured shirts

and fair and dark-haired women

with flamboyant clothes

skirts with pinned red and yellow flowers

come with us

shout at me

Carpe Diem

what is life

if you don't let you go

@ Maria Miraglia

What Is Love

To part

and break love bonds

nourished since long

you were tied to

by customary things

is to die too

Exchanges of thoughts

words, emotions

sharings that lightened

the burden of your life

some coffee together

a movie watched to talk about

the usual embrace

at the coming back

a routine that marked your time

All built brick-by-brick

and you find yourself now

thinking of what you did wrong

Loneliness grips you

even among people

the hours never going by

You miss his smell

his slow pace

and even the boredom hours

spent with him

you feel beautiful now

What is this love

that passes and goes

that dies

@ Maria Miraglia

MARIA A MIRAGLIA

MARIA MIRAGLIA is a poet, essayist, translator, and peace activist. Her commitment to human rights and peace activism is evident in her long-standing memberships of Amnesty International and Ican, the International Observatory for Human Rights. She is also Vice President of the World Movement for the Defense of Children (Kenya) and the founder of the World Peace Foundation. Dr. Miraglia's influence on contemporary literature is significant. As a cosmopolitan Italian writer, her academic curriculum is impressive, placing her among the stars of the literary world. She is a founding member and Literary Director of the Pablo Neruda Association and a member of several  editorial boards of international literary magazines; Member of the International Writers Association; Member of the International Academy Mihai Eminescu; Honorary Member of Naciones Unitas de las Letras; Poet Laureate 2018, WNWU; and  World Poet Laureate and Golden Medal 2020 - Xi’an, China; She writes in Italian, English, or both languages. Her poems have been translated into over thirty languages and are prominent in over one hundred anthologies worldwide. The work that made her known to a broad audience of readers is Dancing Winds, also translated into Telugu.  Among her latest anthologies, Colored Butterflies and Echi nell’Aria. Miraglia is a writer with considerable skills. She has an exquisite imagination; her style is lucid, transparent in thought, philosophical and meaningful in substance. She has been able to skillfully intertwine emotions and creativity, philosophy, logic and reason, giving her poems an air of new beauty. Her various traits and values inspire her readers. She expresses her broad humanity, magnanimity, aesthetic abilities, delicate sensitivity and concern for global peace and harmony.  Her originality makes her a genuinely brilliant writer. Miraglia Maria Literary Director of P. Neruda. Founder President of WFP. Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts- Salzburg