If we had built a world of peace

There would be no injustice

If we had built a world of peace

There would be no persecution.

Rosaria Di Donato, a poet from Italy, shares her poetry

Rosaria Di Donato was born in Rome, where she currently lives. She holds a degree in Philosophy and teaches in a Classical High School. She has published five poetry collections. She contributes to various cultural magazines, and her works have gained recognition both in Italy and abroad, with critical acclaim from Giorgio Barberi Squarotti, and translations by Paul Courget and Claude Le Roy (featured in the journals “Annales” and “Noreal”). She participates in Abele Longo’s blog “Neobar” and various literary websites. A winner of several poetry awards, she is also interested in art, cinema, and photography.

BUILDING PEACE

If we had built a world of peace

There would be no injustice

If we had built a world of peace

There would be no persecution

If we had built a world of peace

There would be no war

Hatred does not build it only fills the world with rubble

What boundary between life and death what

Horizon between earth and sky

What path between war and peace

 If in the end it is just a compulsion to repeat time.

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THE UNIVERSE

The universe plays

With stars planets

Black holes

Theories struggle

To explain it

But the event horizon

Is a distant boundary

Unreachable

An immense space

Where inside and outside

No longer matter

A stretch of darkness and light

Where to lose or find oneself

Without patterns.  

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Image courtesy: New Scientist

SELF-PORTRAIT

I was born in

A corner of

The sky where

The wind

Chases the

Clouds

And sweeps

All the

Sadness away

(Translation by Valeria Girardi)

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