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"Really alive in dark times! The innocent word is foolish. A stretched forehead means insensitivity. Whoever laughs, hasn't known the terrible news yet."
From Bertolt Brecht's lyric (1938): " To those who will come ". This collection of my poems comes from the tormented period we are experiencing, as spectators or actors of a difficult era, of a period of transition towards new and inscrutable horizons of history, now unknown to us.
My verses represent a tribute of hope in a better world and the hope that humanity will not sink into a new Middle Ages.
Considering the brutality of what is happening both in the microcosm of the family and in the macrocosm of society due to terrorist factions, including ISIS, I felt the need to raise my humble voice together with the choral voice of more enlightened contemporary poets.
Heinous murders, especially against unarmed women and children, perpetrated inside the domestic walls, on one side; massacres and massacres not only at the gates, but also within the heart of the West, on the other hand, tend in a different way to make us withdraw on positions of subordination to brute force and of relegation towards an intolerant barbarism.
In addition to all this, there are the current problems resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic that is bringing the whole world to its knees.
Hence the name "Damned Times" which distinguishes this simple collection of verses.
Therefore, forgive me some blunder or redundancy of style, the metric or the lack of metric that the different emotional situations have aroused in me according to the various circumstances.
I had the audacity to translate some poems of mine into English. Forgive me for any mistakes, since - although I use English as my custom and ambition - I cannot consider myself a perfect connoisseur of this idiom.
In addition to the topical poems, I added others of love or aimed at contemplating nature and, in particular, the sea. Precisely from this latter element, which characterizes my historical town Gaeta (Lazio region) stretching out over the Tyrrhenian Sea, I have drawn the poetic and descriptive force of situations and alternating seasons. Dr. Arch. FRANCA COLOZZO ? an Italian Architect/writer/novelist, poet, educationist, retired teacher of “Drawing and History of Art” in Italy and Istanbul (Turkey) on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ? has been nominated in March 2018 Global Goodwill Ambassador (GGA Director~ITALY) by the influencer Richard DiPilla (Virginia – USA) and, in March 2019, INSPAD ~Ambassador of Peace & CEO of IHC~Intenational Harmony Council by Dr. Muhammad Tahir Tabassum, President of INSPAD ~ Institute of Peace and Development, in Islamabad (Pakistan), a NGO incorporated with the UN with special observer status & Think Tank based in Islamabad (Pakistan) and Belgium.During the seven years spent abroad, thanks to her multi-ethnic and multi-cultural experience, she organized exhibitions of Art at the Italian High School I.M.I., the Italian Institute of Culture and the most prestigious universities in Istanbul (Turkey). Multi-tasked, creative and enthusiastic with strong belief in organizational innovation, she is an excellent team worker even in a multicultural context. Passionate about justice, attentive to the rights of the weakest social classes and the importance of the education of women and children, her current focus is in writing novels, poems, essays, articles on different newspapers and blogs about Human Rights, Kashmir, Peace, environmental problems, refugees, women’s empowerment, education and health related programs, etc.
She is at present very active on social media to promote peace through articles, comments, publications also on ACADEMIA.edu.

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Publisher
Passerino
Year
2020
ISBN
9788835873945
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  • I embrace the sun
  • Mall show
  • Covid-19 #March, 8
  • The seagulls of Instanbul
  • Love Obsession
  • Late-night lovers
  • October 15, 2019
  • The colour of the soul
  • Tsunami
  • Remembering MARINELLA #Foibe_
  • 02 02, 2020
  • The coming year
  • I do not love of Christmas
  • Scraps of November
  • Holocaust
  • Mare Nostrum
  • Epic of Israel
  • In memory of GLORIA
  • Torcello
  • Sun pool
  • Alice and the carob tree
  • The blond ghost
  • Hermit
  • September 23, 2019
  • POEMS ON KASHMIR
  • Sad destiny
  • I dream of Kashmir ...
  • Fleeing from thoughts
  • Sound of SILENUS
  • Mute Poetry on Jerusalem Delivered
  • "Ventotene" Manifesto
  • In memory of my mother
  • The faces of violence
  • Notre-Dame of the innocents
  • Get lost to find yourself
  • Flashes of life
  • Spring waves
  • Proserpina
  • Woman's day
  • Drops of springs
  • The shell of time
  • Deaf winter
  • Land and sea
  • Child brides
  • Thinking of my father... DAY OF MEMORY
  • Death merchants
  • Youth lover
  • Cavity mind
  • Hanging to the wire of summer
  • In the dark forest
  • Announced hurricane
  • Lacrymarum sÄ­tÅ­la
  • Insomnia
  • Ante omnia
  • September memories
  • Air bubble
  • Fiumata
  • Nighttime dyng
  • BACK TO MY SHORES #CherchezLaFemme
  • In the name of the rose
  • Symbiosis in blue
  • Aquarius - migrants clouds
  • Ghost
  • What do you know?
  • Kissed horizon
  • Sunny mind
  • Tango of youth
  • Tired meridians
  • Lost path
  • Ronce antique
  • Burkini or bikini
  • The well of the devil
  • Arab spring
  • The sound of freedom
  • Friday, November 13
  • The noise of the stars
  • Innocent eyes
  • I love so deeply
  • Modern Ulysses
  • I love you
  • Boats with refugees
  • #Syria. The blue girl
  • Justice for GIULIO REGENI
  • LETTER TO GIULIO REGENI
  • Aleppo, Aleppo...
  • Marching
  • Runaway

"Really alive in dark times! The innocent word is foolish. A stretched forehead means insensitivity. Whoever laughs, hasn't known the terrible news yet."
From Bertolt Brecht's lyric (1938): " To those who will come".

This collection of my poems comes from the tormented period we are experiencing, as spectators or actors of a difficult era, of a period of transition towards new and inscrutable horizons of history, now unknown to us.
My verses represent a tribute of hope in a better world and the hope that humanity will not sink into a new Middle Ages.
Considering the brutality of what is happening both in the microcosm of the family and in the macrocosm of society due to terrorist factions, including ISIS, I felt the need to raise my humble voice together with the choral voice of more enlightened contemporary poets.
Heinous murders, especially against unarmed women and children, perpetrated inside the domestic walls, on one side; massacres and massacres not only at the gates, but also within the heart of the West, on the other hand, tend in a different way to make us withdraw on positions of subordination to brute force and of relegation towards an intolerant barbarism.
I...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Damned times
  3. Table of contents
  4. I embrace the sun
  5. Mall show
  6. Covid-19 #March, 8
  7. The seagulls of Instanbul
  8. Love Obsession
  9. Late-night lovers
  10. October 15, 2019
  11. The colour of the soul
  12. Tsunami
  13. Remembering MARINELLA #Foibe_
  14. 02 02, 2020
  15. The coming year
  16. I do not love of Christmas
  17. Scraps of November
  18. Holocaust
  19. Mare Nostrum
  20. Epic of Israel
  21. In memory of GLORIA
  22. Torcello
  23. Sun pool
  24. Alice and the carob tree
  25. The blond ghost
  26. Hermit
  27. September 23, 2019
  28. POEMS ON KASHMIR
  29. Sad destiny
  30. I dream of Kashmir ...
  31. Fleeing from thoughts
  32. Sound of SILENUS
  33. Mute Poetry on Jerusalem Delivered
  34. "Ventotene" Manifesto
  35. In memory of my mother
  36. The faces of violence
  37. Notre-Dame of the innocents
  38. Get lost to find yourself
  39. Flashes of life
  40. Spring waves
  41. Proserpina
  42. Woman's day
  43. Drops of springs
  44. The shell of time
  45. Deaf winter
  46. Land and sea
  47. Child brides
  48. Thinking of my father... DAY OF MEMORY
  49. Death merchants
  50. Youth lover
  51. Cavity mind
  52. Hanging to the wire of summer
  53. In the dark forest
  54. Announced hurricane
  55. Lacrymarum sÄ­tÅ­la
  56. Insomnia
  57. Ante omnia
  58. September memories
  59. Air bubble
  60. Fiumata
  61. Nighttime dyng
  62. BACK TO MY SHORES #CherchezLaFemme
  63. In the name of the rose
  64. Symbiosis in blue
  65. Aquarius - migrants clouds
  66. Ghost
  67. What do you know?
  68. Kissed horizon
  69. Sunny mind
  70. Tango of youth
  71. Tired meridians
  72. Lost path
  73. Ronce antique
  74. Burkini or bikini
  75. The well of the devil
  76. Arab spring
  77. The sound of freedom
  78. Friday, November 13
  79. The noise of the stars
  80. Innocent eyes
  81. I love so deeply
  82. Modern Ulysses
  83. I love you
  84. Boats with refugees
  85. #Syria. The blue girl
  86. Justice for GIULIO REGENI
  87. LETTER TO GIULIO REGENI
  88. Aleppo, Aleppo...
  89. Marching
  90. Runaway