Northwest sun

 

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The last sun of spring 

is in front of me 

among the hills 

I see the light just scattering 

 

And now I can know 

after all I’ve learned 

northwest sun 

dies there behind the sacred peak 

 

And in this moment of total disorder 

the ancient knowledge’s got the role of border 

 

And I can only say that I am grateful 

to know where I am now it is so helpful 

 

The ancestors here 

knew that everything 

can become sacred 

if it’s oriented in the right way 

 

And that mountain 

it’s where they found death 

trying to fight 

to make their culture survive 

 

And in this moment of total disorder 

the ancient knowledge’s got the role of border 

 

And I can only say that I am grateful 

to know where I am now it is so helpful 

 

 

Alban Heruin, Summers solstice, 20th June 2022

Pensieri scomposti d’una sera d’estate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Il canto assetato 

delle cicale 

morde le mie vene 

colme di vita 

in attesa 

 

Con luce affilata 

la luna muta 

foglie d’ulivo 

in puro argento 

e velluto 

 

Mi osservo obliquo 

attraverso 

gli occhi socchiusi 

delle colline 

d’occidente 

 

Tra sassi e tegole 

sui tetti caldi 

l'autunno tesse 

già la sua tela 

in silenzio 

 

Aronta* dalla grotta 

avrebbe forse 

compreso la fine 

di questo mondo 

e del mito 

 

* Aruspice etrusco citato nella Pharsalia di Lucano. Esperto interprete del volo degli uccelli, dei fulmini e delle viscere degli animali. Dante lo colloca nella quarta bolgia del cerchio ottavo (If XX 46-51) e lo dichiara abitante in una spelonca ne' monti di Luni.

Inerme

 

 Giugno mi consegna 

 al vento del sud 

 inerme come un ramo 

 rapito dal mare: 

 la luna nuova 

 allinea i pianeti 

 spada gigante 

 prima dell’alba

Poco

  

 A volte basta poco 

 la luce del meriggio 

 sulle pagine scritte 

 il suono del piano  

 nella mia testa 

 e poi il mare... 

 lacrime di sale 

 sui muscoli tristi.

 

(Ancona, 7 giugno 2022)

I need to celebrate

 

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I need to celebrate 

even if there is no faith 

into my veins 

running to my brain 

I need to celebrate 

this new upcoming phase 

the year’s second stage 

starting with May 

I need to celebrate 

because it is my only way 

to remember that I am 

still awake 

I need to celebrate 

just to say thanks 

for nothing or for all 

don’t know how to say 

I need to celebrate 

these clouds that seem stains 

on the golden drape 

of the sunset 

I need to celebrate 

because it is my only way 

to remember that I am 

still awake 

I need to celebrate 

the curling landscape 

with the mountains 

that surround my head 

I need to celebrate 

as a rebellion act 

nobody can understand 

only me I can 

I need to celebrate 

because it is my only way 

to remember that I am 

still awake 

Beltaine 2022

Kindred characters

 

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Yes I think I’m not 

ready for the loss 

ready to watch clearly my decline 

I admit I’m not 

able to support 

the battered soul I have inside 

I’ve driven a lot 

to attain your sacred grove 

and now you say I have again to go 

After we have lost 

all that we have known 

for a new and absurd dimension 

We are kindred characters 

in this comedy of life 

but we’re also different 

look at my worn out head 

With a leap we say goodbye 

to the winter into this night 

we can wait now for the sweat 

for the gleaming eager hands 

There’s a sort of ghost 

at the bedroom door 

at the end I have to say it all 

I don’t think you’ve got 

that spirit so strong 

also you are quite far from the top 

We are kindred characters 

in this comedy of life 

but we’re also different 

look at my worn out head 

With a leap we say goodbye 

to the winter into this night 

we can wait now for the sweat 

for the gleaming eager hands

Take exemple

 

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There's the sun in the sky 

it is springtime 

though there's a frozen white 

I guess it's the time 

of rebirth and I hope 

that I can now take exemple 

from the nature I know 

that I have to take exemple 

 

Then this dazzling light 

hit my hazel eyes 

I forget for a while 

that I'm in a strife 

which inexorably 

puts me into a bad tangle 

and there is no worship 

able to make it untangled 

 

So it's time to say 

that I have lost my way 

and nothing can sate 

my soul and my brain 

 

As she said to me 

I hope my shuttered dreams 

in tides can disappear 

and let me free 

 

There's a heap of despair 

into my head 

all the efforts I take 

seem feckless 

the nights are boundaries 

between the death and the life 

and I have to believe 

in something I cannot see 

 

So it's time to say that 

I have lost my way 

and nothing can sate 

my soul and my brain 

 

As she said to me 

I hope my shuttered dreams 

in tides can disappear 

and let me free