Dream

Vivian Lamarque – Giovinezza senza giardino / Youth with no garden

Giovanni Giani, The morning of roses (Il mattino delle rose – L’attesa), 1906 After so much garden you sombrely look at this prison-home; with what eyes do you ask me why? How can we call this life? Yesterday I dreamed about a forest,  it was beautiful as my garden – enough, I do not want …

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Wislawa Szymborska – Gli sono troppo vicina / I am too close for him

Roberto Ferri (b. 1978), Sonno di Rugiada I am too close for him to dream about me.I’m not flying over him, not fleeing himunder the roots of trees. I am too close.Not with my voice sings the fish in the net.Not from my finger rolls the ring.I am too close. A large house is on …

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Antonio Porta – Per caso mentre tu dormi / By chance, while you’re asleep

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In bed, 1893 By chance, while you’re asleepwith my fingers I unintentionally tickle you, and you laugh,you laugh, still asleep,you laugh satisfied with your body, you embrace life even in slumber,like that day you told me:let me sleep, I have to finish a dream. Per caso mentre tu dormiper un involontario movimento delle ditati …

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