DONATELLA NARDIN

 

 

Jadegreen

 

Let this turgid moon be your eye

scattered in the shape of a heart

in the unclosed rooms

while outside struggles rage

and torment, nightly commotion

blood spilled on the exhausted

soil.

Let the ray that like jade-green

wraps up the banks be fleeting

peace for you like the slow

dripping of a smile overflowing

the afflictions and happier the day

unfolds after having crossed

true anguish and placidly flows

a little light – like an unburied

embrace – from my thoughts

to yours.

 

The Last Dreams

 

Who knows to whom

they may belong the dreams

heaped up in a dark corner

of the kitchen.

Perhaps to this present time

of disturbing moods and

overwhelming screeching.

Bathed in nothingness,

they have become in a few

moments food for the air

and for the birds as perfectly

well knows who belongs

to no home, to no life,

in tiny sparks made of poetry

and nothing more.

 

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, Romanian and Japanese.  In poetry she has published ten collections. The latest are: 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, Poesie velate for Il Convivio Ed. and Intingo le dita nella parola for Macabor Ed.