Poesie

[Turbociclo]

PESSOA

Il violinista pazzo

Non fluì dalla strada del nord
né dalla via del sud
la sua musica selvaggia per la prima volta
nel villaggio quel giorno.
Egli apparve all’improvviso nel sentiero,
tutti uscirono ad ascoltarlo,
all’improvviso se ne andò, e invano
sperarono di rivederlo.
La sua strana musica infuse
in ogni cuore un desiderio di libertà.
Non era una melodia,
e neppure una non melodia.
In un luogo molto lontano,
in un luogo assai remoto,
costretti a vivere, essi
sentirono una risposta a questo suono.
Risposta a quel desiderio
che ognuno ha nel proprio seno,
il senso perduto che appartiene
alla ricerca dimenticata.
La sposa felice capì
d’essere malmaritata,
L’appassionato e contento amante
si stancò di amare ancora,
la fanciulla e il ragazzo furono felici
d’aver solo sognato,
i cuori solitari che erano tristi
si sentirono meno soli in qualche luogo.
In ogni anima sbocciava il fiore
che al tatto lascia polvere senza terra,
la prima ora dell’anima gemella,
quella parte che ci completa,
l’ombra che viene a benedire
dalle inespresse profondità lambite
la luminosa inquietudine
migliore del riposo.
Così come venne andò via.
Lo sentirono come un mezzo-essere.
Poi, dolcemente, si confuse
con il silenzio e il ricordo.
Il sonno lasciò di nuovo il loro riso,
morì la loro estatica speranza,
e poco dopo dimenticarono
che era passato.
Tuttavia, quando la tristezza di vivere,
poiché la vita non è voluta,
ritorna nell’ora dei sogni,
col senso della sua freddezza,
improvvisamente ciascuno ricorda –
risplendente come la luna nuova
dove il sogno-vita diventa cenere –
la melodia del violinista pazzo.

[Turbociclo]

“La famija poverella”

(Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli)



Quiete, crature mie, stateve quiete:

sì, fiji, zitti, ché mommò viè ttata.

Oh Vergine der pianto addolorata,

provedeteme voi che lo potete. 4



No, viscere mie care, nun piaggnete:

nun me fate morì cusì accorata.

Lui quarche cosa l’averà abbuscata,

e ppijeremo er pane, e maggnerete. 8



Si capìssivo er bene che ve vojo!…

Che dichi, Peppe? Nun vòi stà a lo scuro?

Fijo, com’ho da fa ssi nun c’è ojo? 11



E ttu, Lalla, che hai? Povera Lalla

hai freddo? Ebbè, nun méttete lì ar muro:

viè in braccio a mamma tua che tt’ariscalla.

[Escolzia]

Questo amore è morto
è deceduto
è morto
annichilato scaduto
liquidato
ucciso perito
obliterato
morto
sepolto
allora,
perché batte ancora?

(Cristina Perri Rossi)

[Escolzia]

L’ANGELO NECESSARIO
Io sono l’Angelo della realtà,
intravisto un istante sulla soglia.
Non ho ala di cenere, né di oro stinto,
né tepore d’aureola mi riscalda.
Non mi seguono stelle in corteo,
in me racchiudo l’essere e il conoscere.
Sono uno come voi, e ciò che sono e so
per me come per voi è la stessa cosa.
Eppure, io sono l’Angelo necessario della terra,
poiché chi vede me vede di nuovo
la terra, libera dai ceppi della mente, dura,
caparbia, e chi ascolta me ne ascolta il canto
monotono levarsi in liquide lentezze e affiorare
in sillabe d’acqua; come un significato
che si cerchi per ripetizioni, approssimando.
O forse io sono soltanto una figura a metà,
intravista un istante, un’invenzione della mente,
un’apparizione tanto lieve all’apparenza
che basta ch’io volga le spalle,
ed eccomi presto, troppo presto, scomparso?


Wallace Stevens

[Bauxite]

*

[Escolzia]

L' amore ti spezza


L’unica ossessione che vogliono tutti:
l‘“amore”.
Cosa crede, la gente,
che basti innamorarsi per sentirsi completi?
La platonica unione delle anime?
Io la penso diversamente.
Io credo che tu sia completo prima di cominciare.
E l’amore ti spezza.
Tu sei intero, e poi ti apri in due.

(Philip Roth)

[Jerda]

Il mio cavallo trova forse strano
che io sosti ove non c’è casa all’intorno,
tra i boschi e il lago coperti di ghiaccio
nella sera più buia dell’anno.
Fa tinnire i sonagli delle briglie,
quasi a chiedermi se sto sbagliando.
Non c’è altro suono, fuori del fruscio
del vento lieve e dei fiocchi che cadono.
Profondi e scuri sono i boschi e belli,
ma ho promesse da mantenere
e miglia da percorrere, prima di dormire,
e miglia da percorrere, prima di dormire.

Robert Frost

[conogelato]

IL TUO SORRISO


toglimi il pane, se vuoi, toglimi l'aria,
ma non togliermi il tuo sorriso ...
Quando apro gli occhi e quando li richiudo,
quando i miei passi vanno, quando tornano i miei passi,
negami il pane, l'aria, la luce, la primavera... Ma il tuo sorriso mai,
perché io ne morrei.

PABLO NERUDA

[Jerda]

I Sing the Body Electric
Walt Whitman

1
I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

2
The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.

The expression of the face balks account,
But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.

The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the horseman in his saddle,
Girls, mothers, house-keepers, in all their performances,
The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
The female soothing a child, the farmer’s daughter in the garden or cow-yard,
The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,
The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sun-down after work,
The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
The upper-hold and under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv’d neck and the counting;
Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother’s breast with the little child,
Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.

3
I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.

This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,
The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,
He drank water only, the blood show’d like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face,
He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail’d his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.

4
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.

There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.

5
This is the female form,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear’d of hell, are now consumed,
Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable,
Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all diffused, mine too diffused,
Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,
Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh’d day.

This the nucleus—after the child is born of woman, man is born of woman,
This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.

Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
She is all things duly veil’d, she is both passive and active,
She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.

As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.

6
The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
The flush of the known universe is in him,
Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,
The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)

The man’s body is sacred and the woman’s body is sacred,
No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers’ gang?
Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you,
Each has his or her place in the procession.

(All is a procession,
The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.)

Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
For you only, and not for him and her?

7
A man’s body at auction,
(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.

Gentlemen look on this wonder,
Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for it,
For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll’d.

In this head the all-baffling brain,
In it and below it the makings of heroes.

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve,
They shall be stript that you may see them.

Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,
Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
And wonders within there yet.

Within there runs blood,
The same old blood! the same red-running blood!
There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,
(Do you think they are not there because they are not express’d in parlors and lecture-rooms?)

This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.

How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)

8
A woman’s body at auction,
She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers,
She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.

Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
Have you ever loved the body of a man?
Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.

Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.

9
O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)
I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,
Man’s, woman’s, child’s, youth’s, wife’s, husband’s, mother’s, father’s, young man’s, young woman’s poems,
Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,
Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,
Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,
Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,
Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,
Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
Leg fibres, knee, knee-pan, upper-leg, under-leg,
Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;
All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or female,
The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,
The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,
Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,
Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,
The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,
The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,
Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,
The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,
The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,
The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
The circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out,
The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones,
The exquisite realization of health;
O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
O I say now these are the soul!

[Escolzia]

Con cosa posso trattenerti?

Ti offro strade difficili, tramonti
disperati, la luna di squallide
periferie.
Ti offro le amarezze di un uomo
che ha guardato a lungo la triste luna.
Ti offro i miei antenati, i miei morti,
i fantasmi a cui i viventi hanno reso
onore col marmo: il padre di mio
padre ucciso sulla frontiera di
Buenos Aires, due pallottole attraverso
i suoi polmoni, barbuto e morto,
avvolto dai soldati nella pelle di
una mucca; il nonno di mia madre –
appena ventiquattrenne – a capo di
un cambio di trecento uomini in Perù,
ora fantasmi su cavalli svaniti.
Ti offro qualsiasi intuizione sia
nei miei libri, qualsiasi virilità
o vita umana.
Ti offro la lealtà di un uomo
che non è mai stato leale.
Ti offro quel nocciolo di me stesso
che ho conservato, in qualche
modo – il centro del cuore che
non tratta con le parole, né coi
sogni e non è toccato dal tempo,
dalla gioia, dalle avversità.
Ti offro il ricordo di una
rosa gialla al tramonto,
anni prima che tu nascessi.
Ti offro spiegazioni di te stessa,
teorie su di te, autentiche e
sorprendenti notizie di te.
Ti posso dare la mia tristezza,
la mia oscurità, la fame del
mio cuore; cerco di corromperti con l’incertezza,
il pericolo, la sconfitta.

Jorge Luis Borges

[King Kong]

@Escolzia.
Il ritratto di un uomo a nudo, senza bugie.
👍

[Mariachiara Bon]

Soldati
(G. Ungaretti)

Si sta come
d'autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie

[Kanyu]

Con cosa posso trattenerti?

Ti offro strade difficili, tramonti
disperati, la luna di squallide
periferie.
Ti offro le amarezze di un uomo
che ha guardato a lungo la triste luna.
Ti offro i miei antenati, i miei morti,
i fantasmi a cui i viventi hanno reso
onore col marmo: il padre di mio
padre ucciso sulla frontiera di
Buenos Aires, due pallottole attraverso
i suoi polmoni, barbuto e morto,
avvolto dai soldati nella pelle di
una mucca; il nonno di mia madre –
appena ventiquattrenne – a capo di
un cambio di trecento uomini in Perù,
ora fantasmi su cavalli svaniti.
Ti offro qualsiasi intuizione sia
nei miei libri, qualsiasi virilità
o vita umana.
Ti offro la lealtà di un uomo
che non è mai stato leale.
Ti offro quel nocciolo di me stesso
che ho conservato, in qualche
modo – il centro del cuore che
non tratta con le parole, né coi
sogni e non è toccato dal tempo,
dalla gioia, dalle avversità.
Ti offro il ricordo di una
rosa gialla al tramonto,
anni prima che tu nascessi.
Ti offro spiegazioni di te stessa,
teorie su di te, autentiche e
sorprendenti notizie di te.
Ti posso dare la mia tristezza,
la mia oscurità, la fame del
mio cuore; cerco di corromperti con l’incertezza,
il pericolo, la sconfitta.

Jorge Luis Borges

Davvero splendida, non la conoscevo. Complimenti Escolzia.
Posso dedicarti questa? Non è proprio una poesia completa..., più un aforisma di Arthur Rimbaud
“La stella è pianto rosa al cuore delle tue orecchie, l’infinito è rotolato bianco dalla tua nuca ai reni il mare ha imperlato di rosso le tue vermiglie mammelle e l’Uomo ha sanguinato nero al tuo sovrano fianco.”
“Ho teso corde da campanile a campanile, ghirlande da finestra a finestra catene d’oro da stella a stella, e danzo.”

[Escolzia]

@Escolzia.
Il ritratto di un uomo a nudo, senza bugie.
������

questa poesia mi è molto cara, perché a parte i passi in cui si parla di Buenos Aires, sembra la fotografia di una persona che conosco.

Davvero splendida, non la conoscevo. Complimenti Escolzia.
Posso dedicarti questa? Non è proprio una poesia completa..., più un aforisma di Arthur Rimbaud
“La stella è pianto rosa al cuore delle tue orecchie, l’infinito è rotolato bianco dalla tua nuca ai reni il mare ha imperlato di rosso le tue vermiglie mammelle e l’Uomo ha sanguinato nero al tuo sovrano fianco.”
“Ho teso corde da campanile a campanile, ghirlande da finestra a finestra catene d’oro da stella a stella, e danzo.”

Grazie, molto gentile.

[Escolzia]

In quella parte di cuore

Il suo sorriso era un atto di pace
con le brutture della vita,
un tagliente dolore che
annebbiava la mia intelligenza,
colorando il mio sangue fino a farne
inchiostro per le partiture stonate
che scandirono il ritmo dissonante
della mia esistenza.
Il sapore di quei suoi baci
non mi abbandonò per molti giorni
e riempì di fantasmi disperati le mie notti,
una ferita sulla pelle,
una bruciatura,
un marchio a fuoco
E chiudendo gli occhi
ricordavo le mie mani sul suo viso
e le punte delle sue dita
mentre sfioravano le mie labbra
in una danza scandita dal ritmo tribale
del mio cuore intorpidito.
SI! Vivrò in eterno,
in quella parte di cuore
che ti ho donato per sempre

(Giovanni Scafoglio)