DONATELLA NARDIN

 

 

For A Moment At Least 

For a moment at least feel 

impetuous life soaks its fingers 

with light and then raise

a song to the blue.

 

For a moment more 

make the heart join the mouth 

to perceive the shy beauty 

of creation as well as the innocent 

pain of the weeping. 

Between fire and stone

for a moment more being bodies 

kneaded with sun and endless

tenderness until we flex ourselves 

lightly towards the enchantment

of the other.

The Young Hour

Two kisses, a sandwich and the races

on a bicycle to everywhere.

Thus the young hour – eager

with passion – with all the senses

bathed in sunshine.

So later in time

with all the winds and rapacious dreams

come to die in us.

By such a way now pecking

the incarnation of that time, giving form

and substance to the dusk

only to vanish unfinished

in aphasia, after having inhaled

life by subtraction without

managing to escape the fierce things,

without diminishing the injury.

DONATELLA NARDIN

DONATELLA NARDIN was born and lives in Cavallino Treporti-Venice, Italy. After completing her classical education, she worked in the tourism field with managerial positions. Her poems and short stories, multi-awarded in numerous Literary Competitions, have been included in collective collections of several Publishing Houses, in Anthologies of Literary Competitions, in foreign magazines, in literary websites and blogs. Some of her lyrics have been translated into English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Japanese.  In poetry she has published the following collections: In attesa di cielo and Le ragioni dell’oro for  Il Fiorino Ed., Terre d'acqua, Rosa del battito, L’occhio verde dei prati and Isole d’aria for Fara Ed,  Il dono e la cura with Arabic translation by Emeritus Professor Hafe Haidar for Aletti Ed.  Fioriture d’ombra with Romanian translation for Editura Eikon/Cosmopoli and Poesie velate for Il Convivio Ed.