During this period short poems will be installed all around the beautiful park of the ancient Villa Correr Dolfin as an exhibition. The best poems will be read out on Sunday morning as part of the event FOGLIE DI POESIA. I am very happy and proud to be part of this grand event. To be featured among such talented artists and poetsis an honor indeed.
This poem of mine will be installed in the park among many others for display reading . The translation in Italian is by Alessandro Canzian (Samuele Editore Due)
BIRTH OF A POEM
While a poem sparks through a seed of wonder
and reaches up to the sky another swiftly travels
deep and beyond in complex tangles
under the surface of the soil
proliferating out below and in all directions
under debris and filth of cities,
along the grassy river beds
further down
into the ocean bed
slithering beneath countries, continents
into the deep forests
under the desolate deserts
through the heart of frozen mountains
birthing new poems
joined together by the same consciousness
same essence of
Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void.
NASCITA DI UNA POESIA
Mentre una poesia germoglia da un seme di stupore e arriva fino al cielo un’altra velocemente ramifica nel fondo e nell’oltre dei grovigli complessi sotto la superficie del suolo proliferando sotto e in tutte le direzioni sotto i detriti e la sporcizia delle città, lungo i letti dei fiumi erbosi e sempre più in basso nel fondo dell’oceano strisciando al di sotto dei paesi, dei continenti nelle foreste profonde sotto i deserti desolati attraverso il cuore delle montagne congelate gemmando nuove altre poesie accomunate dalla medesima coscienza dalla stessa essenza della Terra, dell’Acqua, del Fuoco, del Vento e del Vuoto.
Sharing my friend Alessandro‘s post about the art and poetry event he is hosting. I am super happy and honored to be part of this event and will be sending my poems too as a Verdarti. It is wonderful to virtually present among artists and poets of such caliber,
The event has the theme of nature and the arts. There are paintings, sculptures, art installations, workshops and poetry readings. This is a festival of arts and poetry. It will be held at Villa Dolfin, in Porcia, an ancient villa with a huge park where the poems will be placed inside the park as an installation. The best poems will be read out on Sunday morning… as part of the event FOGLIE DI POESIA.
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During the Festival Poet/Artist and friend Rachel Slade will have a personal vernissage (her first big, important personal show). Her work will be on large sheets of paper that will be attached to panels and installed on temporary walls. each sheet cut into the same dimensions but arranged together to form triptychs / diptychs. The work is really a direct response to her time in the US, which has been a strange odyssey in so many ways. According to Rachel,” There is a frailty / immediacy to the paper that I feel captures something fleeting, things below the surface… the intensity of being human, vulnerable… being in that moment where no amount of cleverness can save, you have to go further and deeper, risk your own ego.. because the paper doesn’t give do-overs, you can’t rework everything. You give it all or nothing.” She will display her new works on paper, maybe ink drawings and specific paintings done this year.
My good wishes and heartfelt gratitude to Rachel and Alessandro for giving me this platform.
Spinning a Yarn Of Life 