last moon

sabato 29 aprile 2023

But you keep on singing

 


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Tie me, like Ulysses,

I do not want to  run away

Though I want to hear her song!

Please set me free o Lord!

And you keep on  singing!

      I don’t like your sins

     Yet I long for the

     Flames of your eyes

      for the thrills of  my restless soul! 

        And I beg you: please, don’t stop singing.

sabato 22 aprile 2023

For the sake of God

 






 

My heart is bleeding

Day by day

Year after year.

I’m trying to bear my cross

For the sake of God.

venerdì 21 aprile 2023

 



Words of eternal life

 

In the end

I'm still with you

yet I've tried to escape

so many times!

But where could I go?

Only you

have words

of eternal life.

giovedì 20 aprile 2023

The everlasting water

 


 


Lust makes me thirst again

and again

not like Sychar Well's water

Give me Lord

the everlasting, eternal life water!

domenica 16 aprile 2023

You are my dreams

 


 


I don't want to escape

anymore

There is no more time

to do it.

We cannot search over 

our dreams

forever.

My dreams are for God

and you are my dreams.

 

sabato 15 aprile 2023

God is not an illusion

 



 

I Don't really know

if I am in love with you

Elem

nor I know what you feel for me.

 I do know

your eyes

relief the weight

of my years

giving me the illusion

I can catch today

what I was in search for

yesterday.

But God in my heart

is not an illusion;

it's not a cheat!

venerdì 14 aprile 2023

Paths of God

 

 

Where once reigned the desert

Now it blossomed a flower,

a strong flower of love

living, breathing

in perfect harmony

with the 'invisible yet tangible

God's presence!

And now I know what spoiled

My blind yearnings

of happiness:

the arrogance of claiming  affection

which I supposed was  due to me;

the self-conceit  we are only matter,

the pleasure for pleasure,

selfishness  as the only purpose of life.

No, that was not

The right way:

I know now that Love

passes through the paths of God!

martedì 11 aprile 2023

Evilness of the world

 



The evils in the world are:

The wars engaged by the men of power

Concealing their own advantage

Behind the excuse of high ideals;

 

The evils in the world are:

The envy of the rich for the rich

And those who do not know

That the poor can feel wealthy;

 

The evils in the world are:

The insane sexual appetites,

the greed of goods and money

and the supposed superiority;

 

And the world's diseases

Are part of  the cross

That we carry with us daily;

 

But one day someone at once

put on His shoulders these evils

to save us from evilness

At the Cross contains all of them.

lunedì 10 aprile 2023

There is no life behind





 Don’t  have I erected

a wall

Between us

just to protect myself?

What about the parallel one?

But I’m not going

to try to crash them down

‘cause I know

there is no other life for me

behind those walls!

giovedì 6 aprile 2023

Holy Friday

 


 


Thank you Lord Jesus

For coming in our midst

To prove that one can live

Without the worry of power

Without the lure of money

Without the lust of flesh!

Thank you Lord Jesus

You deigned

Dressing  shoes of Man

Showing us that you can

be offended

Hit without hate

With no react of  threatening

though derided and mocked

And after all  forgiving!

How can we ever forget You

You, who have accepted

To charge up our faults

dying for our salvation?

Please tell me Lord



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Please tell me Lord, ‘cause you know it

Tell me Lord, because You know,

if still are  living our fathers

and where lie their spirits?

Where are the loves and the sighs

The ideas that illuminated steps

The power that shook

Thrones by the nations of the world?

And where the pleasures of the flesh

And the wealth of the globe?

Where the ancient human wisdom

That seemed boundless and eternal?

Where is now, that tender mother?

Is that all wasted away for the offspring?

And that hefty father

who seemed all-powerful?

Where are those carefree age games

And the long-awaited youth dreams?

No, no it cannot finish all

During our short life

And all disappear into Nothingness! 

mercoledì 5 aprile 2023

How I think of You

 


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I

How do I  think You are?

And Who are you?

I think the sea

Is Your voice

and the wind is Your breath!

I think you’re your joyful look is   the sun

And Your melancholic eye is the moon:

although I know

it is not so!

I think that Your Tears

Of joy and sorrow

Fall down as a rain  from the sky;

but I also think

that my human thought

cannot understand

Who You are and what You think;

but I know that my soul

it is You.

 

II

Yes You are my soul

when reconciled it flies

on the miseries of the flesh

You are  in daily sacrifices

the tasteful anticipation

of the eternal joy;

it is You

hands outstretched to the poor

eyes faced at the afflicted

meat that generates flesh!

It is you

The mother crying

Christ on the Cross

who dies innocent and misunderstood

every day;

It is you

my soul

strip of Eternity

confined in the ground!

martedì 4 aprile 2023

My Light Cross


 

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I get up and collapse

Under the weight

Of my slight cross,

very little

comparison

with the Unforgettable Cross

Standing tall on Calvary.

I Collapse and get up again,

on shaky legs,

and shaking heart

that only in Your forgiveness

finds the peace! 

sabato 1 aprile 2023

Palm Sunday


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After St John 6, 51-58

Quatrains ABAB

 

“ I’m the living bread from heaven

If anyone eats of this bread

He’ll live forever and ever.

This bread is my flesh which instead

 

I’ll give for the life of the world”

Then the Jews began to argue

Sharply among themselves: “ How could

This man give us his flesh to eat?”

 

The Son of Man told: “ I’ tell you

The truth, unless you eat Jesus’s

Flesh and drink His blood, you have no

Life in yourself. Whoever eats

 

My flesh and drinks  my blood he has

Eternal life and I will raise

Him up at the last day. Because

My flesh is real food and my blood’s

 

Real drink. Whoever eats my flesh

And drinks my blood remains in me

And I in him. Just as the fresh

Father sent me I’m living

 

Because of the Father, so those

Who feed on me will live grace for

Of me. This is the bread not close

To that manna eaten by your

 

Forefathers whose life did render

This bread came down from heaven and

Who feeds it will live for ever

Each pity through It being emend!