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- Herausgeber: Youcanprint
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
After so many years, time is ripe. Many flowers have blossomed in my garden and others have slowly wilted. I found beauty in both and decided to gather my thoughts as nature wants. Childhood memories have accompanied me shedding light on my path and nurturing my grounds . My passage from the "New World" to the "Old World" has enriched my life. There is no regret because there was actually no leaving and no arriving. The simple joy of life is what I am inspired by: nature, love for mankind and respect for myself. May all my readers find in my verses and pictures something familiar to cherish and remember along the way.
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Antonia Petrone
Poetry Garden
Author |Antonia Petrone Title |Poetry Garden e-mail: [email protected] Cover Image: Antonia Petrone, Roses of Potenza, Italy
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To all my family and friends To Yonkers, New York with all my love.
Foreword
Throughout Nature, we find the glory of God and delicate artistry. In Antonia Petrone’s English poems, we find delicate tapestry and music presented with love and grace. Her poetry can be terse yet wise, and the wisest are of fewest words. For instance, she writes: “The most beautiful sound in the world/is in the Oblivion.” The use of the article the makes Oblivion particular rather than general, thus we are led to a specific Oblivion. That Oblivion is one of blindness as we read lines further in the collection, “blindness is nothing / but a tender storm of the soul.” Antonia’s verses are terse yet rooted carefully in the Sublime interior of emotion. Interwoven with the beauty of sound and wisdom, her English poems contain rhythm and direct senses. These poems reflect on Nature, God’s dominion, as well as personal matters. Her poem to her daughter, “My daughter” could be as much about experience as about a person. “Her life like a precious book / with colorful bright images,” speaks of the love the poet has for literature. The poem is about travel and what is seen in those travels, people and sights alike, but it can be construed allegorically if the reader cannot relate to having children. This flexibility is granted by the use of carefully contrived metaphor and general language. These poems are songs, not just of people and places but of wisdom and beauty. “God like a painter draws our life/from a blank piece of paper”, “Pureness is white,/simplicity is clear, love is blind,” are lines in “The Painter” which are worthy of careful consideration. Blindness is taken as a metaphor for the Oblivion, a state of perfect awareness and happiness—this state is only intuited in the world we live in. Antonia writes, “A friend is a four-leaf clover.” May Poetry Garden be a friend of your mind. Oblivion is a state of pure love in Antonia’s poems. Heaven is in the loved one’s arms. As we read the poems, Oblivion is within us as readers discovering our own “four-leaf clover.”
Dustin Pickering Founder of Transcendent Zero Press, USA and honoree of The Friends of Guido Gozzano
His Oblivion is in Me
Yes, unaware I am
of what is surrounding me,
only steps meeting and
bodies moving in a trance.
A glance and I come forward
to be captured in the mist.
That bandoneón plays
making my flesh tremble to the sound.
I turn to look at you and
for a moment I understand where I am.
Your arms softly embrace me
as we follow the sound of our emotions.
Sweet melancholy as it ends
softer and softer till we are lost.
Where shall we go,
step closer then farther,
then down to reach the ground
and feel the earth
that will never again
abandon our steps.
The most beautiful sound in the world
is in the Oblivion.
Now I know
that blindness is nothing
but a tender storm of the soul.
Music is the light
and Tango is the expression
of our deepest emotions.
Medieval Fortress
Love is like a strong medieval castle
overlooking what surrounds
precious in itself and so high
to reach its grounds.
For those that greatly strive
to enter its door
may the gift of joy
fill their heart forevermore.
