POETIC DELIGHTS BY FRANCA COLOZZO-ITALY

 

1-THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

Wings spread to the wind, they rise

In a silent procession,

Drifting like feathers,

They ascend into flight

From the hospital in Gaza,

Struck to the ground by a missile,

Tearing through its ancient heart.

They all rise together like Seraphim

Stolen from the games of another time.

The game of massacre now knows no end.

Crow`s wings fly over the ruins,

Brushing against angel wings in the sky.

The evening turns pale

Amidst ghostly figures.

Only the rubble mourns the dead,

Dead without a true reason,

A common burial remains

For scattered limbs.

The children are no longer afraid,

The hellish roars fall silent,

Hunger and thirst fall silent.

Their creations are offered to God

By grieving mothers as a gift.

From the altars of light, a dark image,

A sacrilegious land reveals

The infamous offspring of Cain.

2-CROSSING OVER IN RED

When I die, dress me in red

To celebrate the joy of my crossing over.

Jasmine flowers in my long hair

To meet woodland and sea nymphs.

Give me a rosary in hand as a prayer

To God so that He may forgive my sins.

In the afterlife, we are all equal and brothers,

Men here struggling in grotesque battalions

Of puppet warriors in rows of demons.

When Atropos cuts the thread of life

Let eternal youth smile upon me.

Scatter incense on my bare feet.

I will encounter galaxies in vivid colors,

Touch Selene in a flash of light

And carry a ray of sunshine with me.

When I die, do not weep, I beg you,

Let my dress be of a cheerful color

A spark of life lit in the darkness.

3-PANDORAS BOX

It travels miles light

a cry left unburied.

Memory now grieves and tears scattered

now dried up by the sun.

Arid, the desert cries out for justice

but nothing moves under masks

of rigid iron,

all is subject to the empire of evil

that knows no respite,

only power and money.

The present is so bitter

as gall, and silent is the waiting

that hopes for spring.

Nothing but desolation

Among incubated shrubs in embryo,

nor flowers or new loves.

Even the swallows

Fear to tease in flight

and gulls seek food elsewhere,

no longer in the sea,

but where only stray cats

rummage through trash and weeds.

Uncovered is Pandora's box,

lonely is the bastard song

of those who seek and do not find,

crowding dreams among barbarians

forgiveness in a dark time

that knows no reason.

Only shadows stagnate

among the rubble of torn houses.

Corpses, mowed down by hatred,

shout vengeance to the sky.

AUTHOR:

Dr. Arch. FRANCA COLOZZO (ITALY):

Member of UIA - UNION OF INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTS | former Teacher of Drawing

and History of Art also abroad, in Istanbul (TURKEY), on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Foreign

Affairs (M.A.E.) | Poet | Artist | Writer | multilingual author| recipient of n°4 honorary PhD |

highly internationally awarded | freelancer | UN SDGs & UN DESA Blogger | former Member of

UN ECOSOC (CSW67) | GGAF (USA), Italian Chapter | WEF - Lifelong Honorary Member |

Ambassador of Peace on behalf of several NGOs from Pakistan (former CEO of IHC-

INTERNATIONAL HARMONY COUNCIL, a sister of INSPAD (Islamabad - PAKISTAN);

from INDIA (MERLE REBIRTH); Italy Chapter on behalf of WIP – WORLD INSTITUTE for

PEACE (NIGERIA), etc. | Executive Director for Sustainability & Climate Change and contact

person for the Transparency Register of the European Commission and Parliament, on behalf of

GPLT - GLOBAL PEACE LET’S TALK (London, UK), founded and chaired by Dr. Nikki De

Pina | Member of the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY of ETHICS, founded and presided over by

Dr. Jernail S Anaand (INDIA) | CEO/Executive Director of RRM3 - RINASCIMENTO

RENAISSANCE - Millennium III, founded and presided over by Prof. George Onsy (Cairo,

EGYPT) | Founder of many groups on social media|

Researcher on www.academia.edu

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