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Crouched
At nightfall
On your old armchair
Next to you
A small table
With a few books
Placed there with care and
An unlit lamp
The sky outside
Is getting sad
Like your soul
While with nostalgia
You are going back to your past
Pausing here and there
Maybe you feel you have regrets and
Would like to stop the time
Grab it
Stop its run
But bitterness and hopeless
you witness the alternation of days and nights
Following the season
Bloom the branches again
In spring
But anon
You seem to hear
The rain falling on the roofs
Or the snow fills
The air of white flakes
And dance to the light
Blows of the wind
From that dark room
Your hands on the tired legs
Take another look at the sky
You have no escape
You think
Once departed from here
That will be your endpoint
It’s dawn
The window is still open
You still there
Your eyes are closed
The white face
As carved marble
You have completed your journey
In silence and alone
On a moonless night
@Maria Miraglia
Maria Miraglia is a poet, essayist, translator, and peace activist. Her commitment to human rights and peace activism is evident in her long-standing memberships of Amnesty International and Ican, the International Observatory for Human Rights. She is also Vice President of the World Movement for the Defense of Children (Kenya) and the founder of the World Peace Foundation.
Dr. Miraglia’s influence on contemporary literature is significant. As a cosmopolitan Italian writer, her academic curriculum is impressive, placing her among the stars of the literary world. She is a founding member and Literary Director of the Pablo Neruda Association and a member of several editorial boards of international literary magazines;
Member of the International Writers Association; Member of the International Academy Mihai Eminescu; Honorary Member of Naciones Unitas de las Letras; Poet Laureate 2018, WNWU; and World Poet Laureate and Golden Medal Xi-an, China.
She writes in Italian, English, or both languages. Her poems have been translated into over thirty languages and are prominent in over one hundred anthologies worldwide. The work that made her known to a broad audience of readers is Dancing Winds, also translated into Telugu. Among her latest anthologies, Colored Butterflies and Echi nell’Aria.
Miraglia is a writer with considerable skills. She has an exquisite imagination; her style is lucid, transparent in thought, philosophical and meaningful in substance. She has been able to skillfully intertwine emotions and creativity, philosophy, logic and reason, giving her poems an air of new beauty. Her various traits and values inspire her readers. She expresses her broad humanity, magnanimity, aesthetic abilities, delicate sensitivity and concern for global peace and harmony. Her originality makes her a genuinely brilliant writer.
Miraglia Maria
Literary Director of P. Neruda
Founder President of WFP.
Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts- Salzburg
