Calliope’s Voice

Poets to come

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WALT WHITMAN Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! Arouse–for you must justify me–you…

Parade of Poems

Scultura monumentale di Satish Gupta in copertina della raccolta poetica Dewdrops di Germain Droogenbrood

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) Four haiku and a sculpture by Satish Gupta, India From the Bo tree a golden leaf floats down – meditating in mid air Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka *** Water flowing, no time to pass judgment on uneven…

Poets of the World, Maria Koursi, Greece

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When the night falls she escapes She locks the cage carefully and leaves ………………….She wonders what she has forgotten ………………….She locks away and leaves ………………….Maybe the light is on ………………….Maybe the door is open ………………….Maybe the day after today ………………….Maybe…

Stay in this light

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Paola Musa’s poetry Barumini (Nuragic fortress, Sardinia) You could have loved me among the silent fortresses of our unknown ancestors. Now bitter is the meantime in your eyes. No verb, then, among the olive trees. No scroll, save the wind.…

Parade of Poems

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE KISS I fell in love with your lips beautiful, red, voluptuous, like peaches adorned with cherries. When I began to kiss you your mouth tastes like the fruits of passion. Everything was so lively, so…

Poetry to house God

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Yayati Madan G Gandhi’s poetry translated in Italian THE LIGHT Why not to house the God Of different religions, under one roof? Why to erect walls before the Light? If Mohammad is the ultimate revelation, Jesus-Krishna too reveal the self-same…