GIUSEPPINA GIUDICE

 

                                                

Desire For Faith

And I will look for you

where the path ends,

where the white peaks

caress the sky

and the scattered clouds

dance lightly in the shelter of the sun.

Where the calm, solemn air

breathes a pungent scent of incense

and scatters pungent flowers.

Among the ancient stones,

where the water runs towards the valley

in a happy song.

I will see you in the eyes of the fawn,

that unaware, lovingly,

looks at the one who

will mercilessly open

its little belly.

In the cities devastated

by the fire of violence and hunger,

where among the ruins a subdued cry rises

that smells of waiting, hope, love.

And I will hear your voice

in the wind that brushes my hair

and whispers in my tired ear

eternal words.

Joycean Epiphanies

Sensations,

expressions of moments of happiness,

captured and magically immortalized,

crystallized on sheets of paper.

Memories of happy moments

destined to be covered by the dust of time.

A flash,

you grab them, you observe them.

Dazzling revelations,

sudden awareness.

Time quickly retreats

flowing the river of memories.

Short, intense moments

of happiness mixed with pain,

anguish.

A sense of suffocation,

tears that appear

and that you can barely hold back.

You put away your treasures,

you push your thoughts away

and breathe a sigh of relief

while waiting for a new “epiphany”.

Beyond The Finite World

Images float

in the individual and remote room of the mind,

finite, concrete realities hover among images

of dreams of the unfinished.

And the gap between dream and reality

becomes thinner.

I glimpse the horizon beyond which

stretches the infinite world

of a reality unknown to the eyes,

but strongly present

in the depths of the heart,

in the conscience of each and every one.

Arcane fears and universal hopes appear,

mixed with desires for knowledge

of the unexplored,

before the appointed time.

A desire to break

that unknown wall,

to sail on light and fast ships,

beyond the human horizon

towards the eternal infinite,

with the certainty of returning

to this unparalleled, tormenting,

but still beloved existence.

GIUSEPPINA GIUDICE

GIUSEPPINA GIUDICE was born in Agropoli. Formerly a teacher of English language and literature at the Liceo “A. Gatto” of Agropoli. She has obtained significant prizes and recognitions for poetry including: one from the Rai of Rome, another with a medal from the Senate (Rome), then the nomination of "Accademica Benemerita" (Rome 2003) and of “Accademica Leopardiana” (Reggio Calabria 2011), a lifetime achievement award in 2010 (Pomigliano d'Arco), the “Honourable Mention for Women” award in 2010 (SA), she was named “Membru D'Onore” and was awarded the Diploma de Excelentia by the city council by Mihailesti (Romania 2004). She was included in Cefaluart's roll of honor of contemporary Italian poets and writers. She is a member of Wiki Poesia and of Republic of Poets. She has published four collections of poems; 5 novels; a collection of short stories (PlaceBook 2021) and three books of fairy tales and stories for children. She is present in various Italian and foreign anthologies. “Europainsieme”, published by Ibiskos-Ulivieri (2006); “Sentimento Latino” (in Romanian and Italian, Bucharest 2004); “Un grito por la paz” (Mexico); “ Striving for Survival”; “Farewell to war”; “Bridges to Tomorrow” (OPA Annual Anthology); Poets of today (Libroitalianoworld); “Voci versate” publishing house Pagine 2018; “Contributions to the History of Italian Literature” vol.4 - Guido Miano Editore - Milan 2009; “M'illumino d'immenso” Pagine publishing house; “Between a picked flower and another donated one” (Aletti editore), “Anthology of selected contemporary poets” (Rome 2020); “Dedicated to…” (Aletti Editore -2020) ; Encyclopedia of contemporary poets n.3 of the Cenacolo Lett. Italian. It is present in the "Speciale Infanzia" anthology 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 editions; in the anthology “Speciale Donna”, ed. 2021, 2022,2023,2024. She participated in the 2021 Spoleto International Festival. The Rai journalist Dr. Corsi Ermanno wrote about her literary activity ( Cultural page of  "Il Denaro" in the years 2011 and 2015). Some of her poems have been translated into Serbian, Albanian,  French, Spanish, Romanian, Polish and English. She participated in the “Pero Zivodraga ZivKovica” Festival in the years 2020 and 2021, 2022, 2023. She is present in the anthology Vibrations litteraires with 31 poems translated into French, in the anthology GEMS-IV (India). She was selected for the 2023 Modigliani prize. She was prized  at “Signs di peace” Assisi 2024.She was nominated “Honorary Academic”  by Universum Academy Switzerland - October 2024.