MICHELA ZANARELLA - POEMS

 
Michela Zanarella is the author of poetry, fiction, and plays. Born in Cittadella, Michela lives and works in Rome, where she carries out her work in collaboration with various journals on the web. She has published ten books of poetry, and she has received several national and international awards. Her poetry has been translated into Spanish, Romanian, French, and Arabic.
 

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                          I Chain Myself to the Origins
 
 
 
I chain myself to the origins
 
of light,
 
I undo a sunset,
 
just as poetry touches me,
 
with my lips I create the fate
 
of a horizon that glorifies
 
cemeteries filled with bones.
 
I rest in the sudden vibration
 
of a cloud,
 
intersecting rivers of silence
 
at the whimsical azure of a crowd
 
of instants.
 
Embodied in the exile
 
of earth and water,
 
I bind myself to the wind, I yield to the flames.
 
To eyes permeated by the world
 
surrounding the sun,
 
I make myself eternal
 
like Daphne. I make myself
 
a forest of olive trees.
 
 
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                                         August’s Glances
 
 
 
You seek me
 
in the glances of August,
 
you throw your blue
 
aboard the edges of my lips.
 
You commit a pulse
 
of muscles and light to eternity,
 
you become electricity where the sweat
 
smells of resin and sea.
 
With your life you invade
 
my life
 
and with the retina
 
call me love.
 
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                                      Together Beyond
 
 
 
Dream an elsewhere,
 
a breathing in
 
of clouds and eternity
 
to nourish the spine,
 
of vapors still intact,
 
still ours.
 
Together,
 
beyond the outlines of the end,
 
we will move winged
 
across timelines,
 
as discovering ourselves naked
 
for the first time,
 
nervous because of love,
 
ready to unearth intimacy
 
of waters, of the universe.
 
The phalanxes will not vanish
 
in flames,
 
the greedy sweat of play
 
will not die,
 
we will consume the sky
 
dripping in love on the sidewalks
 
of destiny.
 
Drenched by sensuality
 
we too will exist
 
where the infinite is absent.
 
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*Poems are translated in english by Leanne Hoppe