The stabbing scream

You charge me for brainwashing

for pressing you down;

may be is right

who says the fault

is giving the life

though I  thank God for living!

But that stabbing scream

pierced my soul

from the darkness

of your strenuous girlhood.

The street's traders

“Go street-trader go

No one can teach you

How to live

Go, chaser of freedom

Temper of marble

Go, Go, street-lover

On the streets of the world

You’ll hit on your dreams”.

Ars Poetica

The Ars Poetica of Horace is incredibly pungent and present even though more than 2000 years have passed since the great Latin poet wrote this work, also known as the Epistle to Piso . The work attracted the attention of Giacomo Leopardi who made i , in 1811 , a fine octave transposition in rhyme.
Here are some pearls in all faithful to the original that inspired them .
" If you want to deserve altars or temples / wait at least nine years, dear brother / before to publish your poems/and work on them as blacksmith does to make the iron shape!!! "
" Meanwhile, everyone is kindly asked to be short  / and either delight or to be useful in his rhymes! "
" But if you are in  search of  honor and praise / writing four verses, oh Piso  / show them to your  parents or to a wise and good censor ;/ keep them locked up for a long time / for if a man has once ever escaped/  he's not  coming back never indeed ! "
" We can tolerate mediocrity in anything ;/ but not in  poetry: thus in honey /  choosey mouths do not like   / a bitter almond  inside . / The best would be to write on prose / if a versifier  is just too cruel / as the football player leaves balloon and balls / and  abandon the disc who is not too strong  ! "
Let us meditate on these verses together, all of us who want to be poets !

Erasmus Plus

 It's official now. From the 1st of January 2014 European's Lifelong Learning Projects Comenius will be replaced by Erasmus +.

As well known by the school enviroments Comenius has financed, trough the years thousands of projects, allowing several millions of students, all along European Union, to travel around changing emotions, languages and cultures.
The semestral Irish presidency has now financed the new culturul project from 2014 till 2020.


Detailed information about Erasmus + will be published on http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/ as soon as possible.
Then, boys and teachers: make up your projects and have a good journey with the new Erasmus + LLP!

Samson's Deeds - II

 Samson showed  very soon  his strongness
  fighting against the  Philistines
who at that time were plenty of guiltyness,
for a forty year long cruelty of crimes
to those tied with him through  Jewishness
never I had so strong a friend of mines;
whith naked hands he defeated a lion,
his strenght alone equalled  a batallion!!!