On February 15 we celebrated POETRY @Philippine Venue of the Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala. The event turned out to be a real milestone in the history of Contemporary Poetry because of the high quality of the poems submitted via Zoom Video Communications, on the occasion of this special festival in China. In addition, February 15 is considered an auspicious day because it is also the Chinese Lantern Festival.
Thanks to 田宇 (James Tian), Qu Jinxing, Chief Planner and Director of Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala, Yu Xiaogao, Director of the Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala, Deputy Director of the Organising Committee and Director of the Calligraphy and Painting Art Centre, and Princess Eden Trinidad
田宇 (James Tian):
The list of winners of Philippine Venue of the Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala was announced,
to you all 
congratulations
Best Poet Prize：
莉迪亚·基亚雷利（Lidia Chiarelli）
卢西拉·特拉帕佐（Lucilla Trapazzo）
叶莲娜·阿纳涅娃（Елена Ананьева）
Excellent Poet Prize：
斯马拉格迪·米特罗普洛（Smaragdi Mitropoulou）
潘胡里·辛哈（Pankhuri Sinha）
克桑西·洪德鲁·希尔（Xanthi Hondrou-Hill）
阿布杜卡赫·科西莫夫（Abdukakhor Kosimov）
Excellent Young Poet Prize：
尼格尔·阿里夫（Nigar Arif）
苏西梅塔·古斯霍尔（Suchismita Ghoshal）
瑞贝卡·洛维（Rebecca Lowe）
梅德·科尔比奇（Maid Corbic）
ONE OF THE POEMS READ WAS “AN EVENING SKY” BY LIDIA CHIARELLI, ITALY
An Evening Sky
A slash of Blue! A sweep of Gray!
Some scarlet patches – on the way –
Compose an evening sky . . .
—Emily Dickinson
So sweet was
the scent of those evenings
when
our steps invented long distance routes
in the summer gardens
when
slowly the lights were lit
and competing with the moons and the stars
formed parabolas of light
on the opaque stones of the paths.
Then, life
just begun
seemed to reveal
– just for us –
a sky of unreal colours.
Countless images
(fragments of old memories)
that
today
recreate and break
in the weary kaleidoscope
of the mind.
Lidia Chiarelli, Torino Italy
Poem in memory of my father Guido Chiarelli, head engineer for the lighting projects in Torino 1956 – 1968
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