SAILING SEPARATE SEAS

 

 

For Lisa

 

Today I felt in my nostrils
the powerful smell of the sea,
but, sweetheart, it wasn’t that sea
where we both strolled together,
along dimly-lit beaches of hope,
where for instants I dreamed that
you could be the whole universe –
and nothing more beautiful, ever!

Today that same sea takes me far,
oh! so very distantly far from you,
like a new mermaid that lures me
towards unknown, remote, dangerous
waters, or uncharted dunes in the desert,
where a final destiny – an end-of-the-line –
impatiently ambushes impossible dreams…

 

 

 

PoetaMatusèl reads
SAILING SEPARATE SEAS

 

 

 

Copyright © 2014 Guido Comin PoetaMatusèl – Belluno, Italy. All rights reserved.

 

 

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AUTUMN, COME TOO SOON …

 

This much-too-orange moon,
too large, too bright, too cheeky,
that mocks my every movement,
my moods, my very madness…

This cannot be the moon of your
long walks on unknown beaches,
without even a dog, without us both,
the Baltic’s feathers ruffled by the early
breezes of this autumn come too soon.

Oh, no, this has to be my moon alone,
for it is coloured just like dying leaves,
appropriately enough, because this is
the designated season of farewells,

when everything that’s natural will die,
making – like our scant harvest of love –
space for the hopeful flowers of next year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRECOCE AUTUNNO * Traduzione (un po’ libera)

del poeta Fiore Leveque

 

Ahi, Luna a buccia cotanto ranciata
Tanto larga, brillante, e ’sì sfacciata!

In berlina metti ogni mio movimento
E umor, e… ogni atto mio ’sì da demente!

Non puoi esser quella tu, in vagar, compagna
’si tanto là ove rena il salso bagna,

Senza un can, senza noi due stretti a Un Cuore,
e arruffa piuma in Baltica brezza Amore,

Ed in precoce tal stagione morente.
Eh, no! Solo mia tu sia luna ardente,

’sì colorata a mo’ di morte foglie,
Ed appropriatamente, dove coglie

Stagion designata per ogni addio
Ogni che torna da Natura a Dio:

… qual, ’sì, ora scarso raccolto d’amore,
qui, ove l’anno che verrà sarà in fiore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright © 2011 Guido Comin – Belluno, Italy & Fiore Leveque — Anzio (RM), Italy.  All rights reserved.

 

 

 

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