the secret of a flower

I would like to be a rose
and like her resting on a side
offering the inner pleasure
of showering my guests
with ever different aromas
in the early summer
of a warm afternoon

I lived long enough to see the difference between being cool and being inspired, being popular and being influential, being original and being true.
Personally, I don't care about all this anymore.

Bambini,
che lavoro ostinato chiedete al poeta ogni giorno
perche' protegga quella scarpa scordata di fretta
da uomo, ma col tacco!
generosa e' la vostra terra
che si mostra solo a chi si prova incosciente
che porta il chiocciare di galline grasse
e sentieri dove crescono i fiori.
Ai giardini stanno guardiani di latta.

The Nephilim were on  the Earth at that time (and also immediately afterward), when those divine beings were having sexual relations with those human women, who gave birth to children of them.
These children became the heroes and the legendary figures of ancient times.

Genesis 9_4, International Standard Version

Gubbio, Aprile 2013

Il lupo non e' Francesco,

e' soltanto suo fratello

e potremmo mai dire alla torre "vola!"

o agli uccelli "girate in tondo"?

Ecco io sento

la fine del tempo

 prima del balzo,

preda di fuga

respirando l'aria di un'alcova non salva,

con la schiena esposta,

prima del tempo, ora.

 We called ourselves Homo Sapiens Sapiens, but we still know very little.