AUTUMN, quadro di NxNa, Bulgaria. CADONO LE FOGLIE, poesia di AERONWY THOMAS, UK

 
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FALLING LEAVES   The leaf speaks: I am changing colour It feels strange I was vibrant green Now my tips are orange Brown and yellow   The tree speaks: I am feeling unwell My leaves behave Strangely My green roof And walls gone People liked To shelter from the sun And rain The children The squirrels The picnic parties A tablecloth Spread under My lively branches Shady and Intimate. I can see and hear The children nearby Waiting for the conkers.   The leaf speaks: I am falling Falling Whirling Gusts of wind Strip the tree In playful tornadoes Until it subsides. I join the others Spread out Under the tree Burgundy leaves Are whipped up by the wind For a last dance.   The tree speaks: I feel naked to the elements Without my leaves And think of the mists and rain And cold As Winter approaches. Never mind I look splendid With my limbs On show And know my buds Are lying dormant, Protected by Their sticky sheafs Ready to burst forth At Spring To clothe me Once again In King’s cloak Of green.   AERONWY  THOMAS

CADONO LE FOGLIE   La foglia parla : Sto cambiando colore È strano Ero verde vibrante Ora le mie punte sono arancioni Marroni e gialle   L’albero parla: Non mi sento bene Le mie foglie si comportano Stranamente Il mio tetto E le mie pareti verdi se ne sono andati Le persone amavano Ripararsi dal sole E dalla pioggia I bambini Gli scoiattoli Le feste con i picnic Una tovaglia Stesa sotto I miei rami vivaci Ombrosi e Intimi. Posso vedere e udire I bambini vicini Che aspettano le castagne d’India.   La foglia parla: Sto cadendo Cadendo Volteggiando Raffiche di vento spogliano l’albero In tornadi giocosi Finché il vento si calma. Mi unisco alle altre Sparse Sotto l’albero Foglie dal color rosso scuro Sono spazzate dal vento Per un’ultima danza.   L’albero parla: Mi sento nudo di fronte agli elementi Senza le mie foglie E penso alle nebbie e alla pioggia E al freddo Mentre l’inverno si avvicina. Non importa Sembro splendido Con le mie membra In vista E so che le mie gemme Ora stanno dormendo Protette dai Loro spessi involucri Pronte a uscire fuori A primavera Per vestirmi Ancora una volta Con un verde mantello Da Re.   Translated by: Lidia  Chiarelli

At Sea by Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Roundtable | Lapham’s Quarterly

At Sea by Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Roundtable | Lapham’s Quarterly.

ECLIPSE IN ETHER, quadro di Katrina Vrebalovich, Norvegia. MOONWOLF, poesia di AERONWY THOMAS, UK

 

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MOONWOLF   Keeping watch over the skies I look for a slice of light to herald the coming of the moon so many hours watching in vain eyes blinded by neon stars limbs rigid with anticipation.   You complain I ignore you up all hours alone what I felt for you last full moon belonged to that time.  Wait for the rising of the moon we can reignite our love or not  I am a moon wolf inconstant as water.   AERONWY  THOMAS

MOONWOLF   Continuando ad osservare I cieli cerco una fetta di luce che annuncia l’arrivo della luna così tante ore a guardare in vano gli occhi accecati dalle stelle al neon le membra irrigidite nell’attesa.   Tu protesti che ti ignoro tutte quelle ore in solitudine ciò che provavo per te lo scorso plenilunio apparteneva a quel tempo. Aspetta il sorgere  della luna noi potremo riaccendere il nostro amore oppure no io sono un lupo della luna incostante come l’acqua.   Translated by Lidia Chiarelli

Immagine&Poesia…Then and Now, saggio di MARY GORGY. Fine Art Photo di ADEL GORGY. Long Island, N.Y.

 
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Immagine&Poesia…Then and Now

by

Mary Gorgy

Immagine&Poesia is an international art movement founded in Turin, Italy in 2007 by a small group of poets and artists, including Aeronwy Thomas, Lidia Chiarelli, Gianpiero Actis and others, who believe that the power of the written word and the power of visual image, when joined, create a new work which is not only greater than the parts, but altered, enhanced, changed and magnified by the union.  Since their founding, their ideas have spread and the group has grown to include a wide range of artists and writers from around the world—from fledgling painters, photographers, videographers and promising young poets to luminaries like Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Immagine&Poesia shares in a great heritage that includes many important movements.  The manifesto of Surrealism was written by the poet/critic Andre Breton, and came to full voice in the imagery of Dali, de Chirico and Magritte.  Dante Rossetti, the poet/painter, founded the Pre-Raphaelites, who found not only inspiration, but a higher truth in the poetry of Keats.  Paul Klee wrote poetry; e. e. cummings painted.  For which was Blake better known?  Perhaps the greatest expression of the marriage is in the sister arts of poetry and painting that flowered in the Zen Buddhist art of China and Japan, including Zenga and the calligraphic works of the Edo period monks.

All art is inspired and informed by other art.  It is difficult, indeed, to imagine a serious trend in art that has not found its echo in literature, or a meaningful direction in literature without a parallel path in the visual arts.  How can art not reflect its own time and place, its unique world view, and be relevant?  Or, as Yeats says, “How can we tell the dancer from the dance?”

It may be that in the beginning was the word, but art has never been far behind.  Mankind’s first words were pictures—pictographs of men and animals, sun and moon.  Lascaux’s cave paintings and aboriginal rock art tell us of a world where men dwelled among demons to be conquered and gods to be appeased, and life depended upon the success of the hunt.  The walls of Egyptian temples employed pictures and hieroglyphs to tell of battles and kings, but their artistry and grace tell a greater story, one of a culture of elegance and refinement never before seen on earth.  Renaissance cathedrals and chapels were decorated with scenes from the Gospels and the stories of beloved saints, and the architecture and art took the place of the written word for an illiterate congregation listening to prayers in a language they did not speak.

Throughout history, art and literature, especially poetry and song, its most itinerant form, have been the means for mankind to make his story known.  No chronology of rulers or map of borders can tell of human joy and sorrow, longing and fulfillment, for these are the domain of poetry and art. 

Immagine&Poesia has renewed the tradition of bringing together artists and poets to create new collaborations and in these collaborations reside new ideas, new vitality, and new ways of seeing.  And being, as all relevant art is, a product of its own time, Immagine&Poesia uses new technologies to reach its audience.  Through the use of digital imagery and global, always-on communications, artists from small towns in Asia can collaborate with poets in Europe.  A painter from South America can join her image to the work of a poet from Wales, and not only will the work be changed by the experience, but both poet and artist will be, too.  Like synaptic neurons firing together to form a thought, or tributaries flowing together to form a great river, the collaborations of artists and poets support, as Immagine&Poesia states in its manifesto, “activity, imagination, originality and research.”  And through publishing these collaborations, Immagine&Poesia brings to art a new, 21^st century, illuminated manuscript, a modern day Zenga to contemplate.

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ANGELS, quadro di PREMA, Norvegia. ANGEL, poesia di AERONWY THOMAS, UK

 
 
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ANGEL

Clogging up the skies

Wings flapping on takeoff

Wind Gale Force Angel

A gentle breeze on the cheek.

They descend in a crowd

So near there’s hardly room

For all of us.

Soon you’ll be an angel

I think they whisper.

The sky’s overcongested

I object

Irritated by feathers.

When you’re really good

You go straight to heaven,

For a comfy cloud

Angels by invitation only.

Not a chance

Says the gravely voice

Behind my shoulder.

The air thins of angels

Gets distinctly warm

Palatial accommodation

Unencumbered fire for skies

He offers.

Do what you want

No penance down

Where I preside

The heat’s always on.

Him upstairs

Too fussy about intent

Even if you repent

Lies the dark angel

Paying me a visit

Last minute.

Lifting my arms

Little feathers grow

I shoot up like

A rocket

All the angels “tut-tutting”

Road Hog they shout

In musical tones

As I make my choice

And shoot Heavenwards

(God willing).

AERONWY  THOMAS

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON, immagine e parole di LADY SOLEDAD, Pakistan

 
Once in a blue moon you find the light

Lady Soledad, Pakistan

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IN THE DARK, quadro di FOTINI HAMIDIELI, Grecia . GULF, poesia di Aeronwy Thomas, UK

 
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GULF

The mistake

I made

Was to be younger

Than my mother.

She could not

Forgive me

And I could not

Grow older

To match her,

My mother

(even if I wanted to).

Sometimes

I wished

I could be

Her friend

Not her rival.

The mistake

I never made

Was to introduce

My young lover

Asserting my

Generation

Across

The gulf

Of aging

And disintegration

(as she saw it).

                                         AERONWY       THOMAS

Sindone, poequadro di ERMANNO EANDI, Torino

 
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