Love poems

Jacques Prevert – I ragazzi che si amano / The guys who love each other

Antonio Lopez Garcia, The Lovers, 1964 The guys who love each other kiss each other on their feetagainst the doors of the nightand passers-by pass mark them with their fingersBut the guys who love each otherThere are none for anyoneand it is their shadow onlythat trembles in the nightstimulating the anger of passersbytheir anger their …

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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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Wislawa Szymborska – Impresso nella memoria / Commemoration

Renato Guttuso, Il bosco d’amore (Love Wood), 1985 They made love among the hazel shrubsbeneath the suns of dew,entangling in their haira leafy residue.Heart of the swallowhave mercy on them.They knelt down by the lake,combed out the earth and leaves,and fish swam to the water’s edgeshimmering like stars.Heart of the swallowhave mercy on them.The reflections …

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