May the winter

 

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May be the winter bring peace 

among all the nations 

may the winter polish 

the mess in this desolation 

and may the winter give things 

that make me a better person 

and may this winter believe 

in a world more handsome 

This gloom has devoured the sun 

no warmth no light for days there are 

into this darkness there is only the hope 

like a little candle I lit in the north 

I really hope to see again the sun 

this fog is coloured like the bones of heart 

into this darkness there is only the hope 

like a little candle I lit in the north 

May the solstice fix here 

a point a new lesson 

when the darkness also means 

the new light inception 

and please be gentle with me 

a prayer over the candle 

because all that I need 

is a new perception 

(of me) 

This gloom has devoured the sun 

no warmth no light for days there are 

into this darkness there is only the hope 

like a little candle I lit in the north 

I really hope to see again the sun 

this fog is coloured like the bones of heart 

into this darkness there is only the hope 

like a little candle I lit in the north

Winter solstice - Alban Arthan

Le ultime ore di caduta

 

Questa nebbia ossea 

non riesce ad entrare 

nella scatola casa 

di pietra antica 

fatta da mani grandi 

che mai ho conosciuto. 

Ne accarezza gli angoli 

la osserva silenziosa 

attraverso le finestre 

come occhi accessi 

invisibili al mondo 

puntini nel cosmo. 

Sono le ultime ore 

di caduta nel buio 

domani luna nuova 

e il giorno dopo 

la luce rinasce 

ancora una volta.

The windows of the castle

 

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It seems we wait for Christmas all the year 

trying to fight the useless blessed tears 

This sunset is the shortest of the year

Lucy the Saint the eyeless seems to hear 

And I have seen the windows of the castle 

the last rays of the sun on window pane 

the highest point towards the east 

while all the world is going to feast 

for Christmas 

These nights are long but not dark as the soot 

the days are bright but short as my good mood 

I know I’d need to stay into the woods 

to find out some trace of me and not to lose 

And I have seen the windows of the castle 

the last rays of the sun on window pane 

the highest point towards the east 

while all the world is going to feast 

for Christmas

Waxberry

 

Santa Lucia 

è sole pieno 

a sud est 

e fumo speziato 

di bucce d’arancia: 

le ultime bacche 

di cera bianca 

sui rami spogli 

del sinforicarpo* 

in silenzio evocano 

l'inverno. 

 

* Symphoricarpos Duhamel è un genere di piante della famiglia delle Caprifoliacee, i cui membri sono noti in italiano come sinforicarpi o sinforine. Sono noti anche col nome inglese di Snowberry o Waxberry.

Consola

 

In attesa dell'alba 

la testa è un'ostrica 

aggrappata 

al cuscino 

gli occhi sono pozzi 

assetati 

in preghiera. 

Consola soltanto 

la certezza 

assoluta 

dell'arrivo 

incipiente 

del sole.

Nothing like my face

 

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Time of my life 

is like a big tide 

while I don’t even know the last time I have cried 

 

In my busy mind 

the need to be alive 

is in contrast with all the thoughts against the life 

 

There is nothing like my face 

that is for me a maze 

I try to avoid the mirror 

to escape me from the pain 

 

But I know I can’t go this way 

it’s something to erase 

from my mind with the scissors 

I cut the pain away 

 

 A boat I’ve inside 

into waves so high 

but always looking for an harbour to survive 

 

Nothing seems so right 

or even a bit kind 

while I am always thinking of the same lie 

 

There is nothing like my face 

that is for me a maze 

I try to avoid the mirror 

to escape me from the pain 

 

But I know I can’t go this way 

it’s something to erase 

from my mind with the scissors 

I cut the pain away

I walk nearby my house but it’s as I’m in India

 

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I walk nearby my house 

but it’s as I’m in India 

my mind oh is allowed 

through words sweet as the stevia 

to travel far from my sad life 

where other stories seem so right 

 

While here it’s cold and wet 

I can taste warmth and sun 

while I am feeling bad 

I can have a young heart 

this is the power of the humans 

to be elsewhere without being new ones 

 

In my mind I’m told to seek some truth 

but I’m lost where all sacred’s abused 

when I try to clean me from the soot 

I find myself where darkness looms 

give me some truth 

 

All the brambles around 

the last with still some leaves 

and there is not a sound 

that early sunset sweeps 

but his words transport in a while 

in a place full of noise and life 

 

Fog is covering all the wood 

but some sun is still on the roof 

every day I fight with my sad mood 

to travel with the mind is helpful 

if I find some truth