Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
In the hush of the twilight’s tender embrace
my WISH is a dream dancing in the breeze.
Like a lantern in the dark illuminating the path
it carries the promise of healing the World from wars.
I will drop my wish
in the moonlit river
letting it flow gently
with the glimmering stream.
I will weave my hope
on the canvas of a starry sky
where a tapestry with the word
PEACE
will shine.
FROM DARK TO LIGHT
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
– and sings the tunes without the words –
and never stops at all.”
Emily Dickinson
In this time of fog and thick smoke
in the alien, heavy silence
we walk in intricate labyrinths –
in the night a swirling void
surrounds us.
An oblique wind creeps
in the indistinct darkness.
And suddenly a small light makes its way
First- flickering, vibrating
Then – warmer as moved by nuanced sounds.
It is the Hope that returns and finds its path.
Gentle as a feather
moved by the early morning breeze.
Sweet wordless melody that
envelops all things
points the way
outlines new days.
And the dawn has a crystal glow.
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.
Installation artist and collagist. Coordinator of #DylanDay in Italy.
She has become an award-winning poet since 2011. Awarded with the Literary Arts Medal – New York 2020. Winner of KEL Poetry Contest 2022 (USA/South Korea). Poetry Star, China 2022.
Six Pushcart Prize (USA) nominations. Grand Jury Prize at Sahitto International Award 2021.
In 2014 she started an inter-cultural project with Canadian writer and editor Huguette Bertrand publishing E Books of Poetry and Art online.
Her writing has been translated into 30 languages and published in more than 150 Poetry magazines, and on web-sites in many countries. In 2022 one of her poems was engraved on a clay tile and installed in the town of Montanaro (Turin).
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