Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. Philip Arthur Larkin, (Coventry 9 August 1922 – London 2 December 1985) was an English…
CATHERINE LONIE Thanks to Irvine Welsh and “Trainspotting”, the ancient port of Leith is infamous. Even before Welsh’s novel, my grandmother had a low opinion of the place and would have been horrified to know any of her kin, however…
CLAUDIA AZZOLA Issue No. 11 of the Traduzionetradizione journals - Editorial The present issue falls into two subjects: poetry and prose, the prose fiction of established nomenclature, presenting two extracts out of novels which outdo the plot and realism, and root in…
Illuminating Rover Light me as the powerful nebulas Returning from light years of photons Be my auroras in the eve of unknown darkness And all other darkness that the lord of light cansolarly and universally define Be my spectral radiance…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) If so intensely we would live like the rose the deep perfume of the bodies would mean much more. Oh, short intense life of a day of secular roses, you passed by the house alike, alike,…
SERKAN ENGIN Poetry is the organization of the poetic images around one or more themes, forming completeness, according to imagist socialist poetry. As it can be understood from this description, the main unit of the poetry is the poetic image,…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE OLIVE TREE The olive tree stands above my yard. Ages fuse to perplex the wide trunk. Crafted by pain fissures sculptured in peace curves make a precious piece of Art echoing the pulse of eternal…
LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE and SILVIA PIO On the sixth day of October 1957 Agnese and Raimondo got married early in the morning and not at high mass as normally expected in Agnese’s village. Her parents had arranged a family lunch at…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) MEMORY Just as the image of an isolated cloud is your blurred form of modest dimensions. It’s like a dream in the stifling heat and the light quiet and far away slow and entangled. You come…
Messages in a bottle are passages, quoted from writers who lived in the past, conveying a message that can still be appreciated in the present. Thomas Stearns Eliot (Saint Louis, 26 September 1888 – London, 4 January 1965) is one…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT I just returned from the International Poetry Festival Mihai Eminescu in Romania where I was granted the “Gran Premio Mihai Eminescu”. So far, we published the Poem of the Week in Chinese, Dutch, English, Italian, Roman and Spanish…
September 26, 2015 the global poetry event “100Thousand Poets for Change” (100 thousand Poets for Change) took place in more than eight hundred cities located in over one hundred countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Here in Mondovì local poets joined…
I AM SEVENTY SEVEN I am Seventy Seven, yes, I am old as they say, grey hair, receding hair line and chin with folds but what shall I do to the moons in my eyes, the glint, the glow, the…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) MADIBA* Did you see the moon trembled? A leaf fell down the tree. I believed you could become a bridge Between me and the universe. I’m not colorful And I know I have bright rights written…
BEE LINES The golden bees are making sweet honey From all my old failures —Antonio Machado, transl. Robert Bly In a rough grass patch by a leaning silver birch these boxes left as if in mid-move two raised on a…
