LIDIA CHIARELLI

 

 

Lights In The Rock Garden

 

(Torino “ville lumière”)

 

 

 

A slash of Blue! A sweep of Gray!

                   Some scarlet patches - on the way -

                   Compose an evening sky . . .

 

—Emily Dickinson

 

 

Darkness surrounded me.

At the distance

echoes came in subtle vibrations

in a slow crescendo

a gloomy, confused whisper…

 

Then the lights switched on

in the garden of a thousand colours.

They switched on vibrant and warm

on the water of fountains

on the petals of roses

caressed by the April breeze.

As I walked

on the flowered paths

subtle fragrances

wrapped me up in the deep silence.

 

Legacy of magic memories

that every night come back alive

again, and again

in my beautiful Turin, "ville lumière”.

 

(in memory of my father, Guido Chiarelli, pioneer of public lighting)

 

 Where Dreams Dwell

 

So tremulously like a dream …

(“Clown in the moon” - Dylan Thomas)

 

 

In a separate world

dreams are alive.

Constellations of lights and

interstellar sounds attend their birth.

They creep into our minds

through a meandering trail

when the night is darkest.

Like dancing shadows

tremulous they enter

they play, mutate, dominate

are lost in dissociated sequences.

They plunge into the unfathomable

depths of memory

to emerge again.

And when the first blades of light

pierce the sky

they vanish … crumpled, shattered

toward invisible horizons

in echoing silence

 

Vision Of New Worlds

 

(To Dylan Thomas)

 

Your words

as parables of sunlight

unveil visions

with blurred edges

new worlds melting

into fluctuating immensity.

 

Into your swirling darkness I fall.

 

Lift me with wide wings

higher and higher into the blue.

Bring me to know the vibrations of the sun

 

where blades of fire evaporate

where I can finally savor

 

 

the emerald kiss

and the indigo breath

 

in the rainbow’s

evanescent embrace

 

LIDIA CHIARELLI

 

 

LIDIA CHIARELLI (Torino - Italy) is one of the Charter Members of  Immagine & Poesia, the art literary Movement founded in Torino (Italy) in 2007 with Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan Thomas’ daughter. Installation artist and collagist. Coordinator of #DylanDay in Italy. She has become an award-winning poet since 2011. Six Pushcart Nominations (USA). In 2022 one of her poems was engraved on a clay tile and installed in the town of Montanaro (Turin). First Prize “the Best Poets & Translators”, China 2023. In Montecarlo (Monaco) she won the Second Prize at “Le Parole della Vita” Poetry Contest 2024. Her writing has been translated into different languages and published in more than 150 Poetry magazines, and on web-sites in many countries.