Echoes from a sad soul - 33

 

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Your power won’t last forever

 

Come on great men of the world

Who own the power

You have already had much money

To move on soldiers

much gold to feel stronger

luxury palaces to live comfortably safe in!

And fields, ground, soil, trees,

Rivers, lakes and seas

As far as your own eyes can get

‘Till the horizons can show!

 

But do you really think

your power will last forever?

 

Don’t you remember Ramses the Third,

Cyrus of Persia, Nebuchadnezzar,

Alexander the Great, the emperor Augustus

and all the kings from the past up to Napoleon?

You’re now inventing new richness made of nothing

You’re exploiting the soil under its surface

And even you’re searching for more in the universe

Still cheating the poor!

But don’t never forget

Whom God created the world for!

In Cagliari 2016

Echoes from a sad soul - 32

 

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In another life

In another life

I would fall in love

with a harpist

I would listen

to her proves

attending

at my daily trifles.

In another life

I would understand

much better

the value of time

praising God

since my young days.

In another life

I hope to see

the endless dawn.

Echoes from a sad soul - 31

 

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The evils of the world

The evils of the world are

The wars engaged by the power men

Concealing their own advantage

Behind the excuse of high ideals;

 

The evils of 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 of the world are

The insane sexual appetites,

the greed of goods and money

and the supposed superiority;

 

And the world's illnesses

Are part of the cross

That we carry with us daily;

 

But one day Someone at once

put on His shoulders these shames

to save us from evil

And the Cross contains all of them.

Echoes from a sad soul - 30

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That star full of love

 

I woke up one morning

and there was a star in the sky

I followed that star

all around the world

I was searching for love

and when I found myself

on the starting place,

after twenty five million miles,

I realized that love was inside of me.

That star was a star full of love.

  

Echoes from a sad soul - 29

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Now I know what’s love

Now I know what is love

Not the sudden passion

that turns off soon

and then rises again!

Not even your eyes

yet sincere

But not eternal

Not your vain, fallacious promises

But the Word that never betrays

It's true love!

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Echoes from a sad soul - 28

 

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I’m longing for my eternal home

As a fugitive exiled

I long for my eternal homeland!

Call me to your abode

Nostalgia soul

Because the tree suffers

Away from his own land!

Call me at your home

For bread is no longer enough

And it does not quench the wine

In the arid table of life!

I am a fugitive exiled

Who longs for his eternal homeland!

 

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Where I’ll be going

 

  

Where I’ll be going

This afternoon

After visiting my tired old father

And my mother,

searching on television

Her youngish lost dreams?

Where will I go?

 

Where will I go

If my fate

Coerces me  here

Where struggle is harder

Against prejudice

Against habitude

Against the foresaid?

 

My body suffers

From constraint continence

‘cause I don’t Know the way

To astral projection

For escaping the world.

 

So I can’t get

any stuff

To keep me on

And  got no place

To go to

This afternoon

And I might be writing somewhere:

“When I’ll be going?”

 

In Sardinia 1985

 

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And nobody will know the reason why

 

Let me   kiss your feet baby,

I love them, allow me to kiss them,

I promise you: only your feet Elem,

Nothing else,

nothing more than your wonderful feet.

I love them.

II

And you’ll be laughing,

without telling me why

because this is fantastic,

how you can laugh

without any reason;

Let’s have another drink

and   smoke a little more,

come here, we’ll be peacefully alone.

 

III

God damn you, Mr Shadow,

Balls to you;

the world around us is so great

that I don't understand how you are not able

to find another damned place to go to;

and I’ll tell you much more:

I   understand German;

I really do understand it, ‘you know?

And even if you spoke

any other bloody language,

I would understand you as well,

‘cause tonight I will kiss her feet!

Look at them:   they are so beautiful,

gilded as the  hair,

and soon I will be kissing them.

And she will laugh

the way she only does,

and nobody will know the reason why.

In London 1978

Echoes from a sad soul - 25

 

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The new day

(in death of my brother Mauritius)

 

Now the veils of Maya have fallen

And no longer covers your body

The armor of the Syrian Naaman

I see on your face again

Shining the ancient light

Of our childhood games

When hopes

were all to come

And the misleading curtain

Which hardens the hearts

Had not yet come between us

Run now

On your nimble legs

Wait for me in the sunny lands

Where the sun never sets down.

 

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We’ll unfold our verses

 

If everything’s been written

And everything been said

We won’t speak anymore

We won’t write anymore

 

But if we are new prophets

Sent to remind manhood

The world belongs to God

 

And if the world drowns off

In the mud of inky well

And scribes and Pharisees

Roar in the vanities

Then we’ll still howl our dreams

Writing down all our visions

And against their arsenals

We will unfold our verses.

                               In Cagliari September 2008

Echoes from a sad soul - 23

 

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Flower of Antioch

(for  Inès)

Goodbye flower of Antioch

I sucked your nectar

For a day

And then

I have blown away!

 

Ah if my fate had made me not a bee

I would not be here

Flying from bloom to bloom

Searching for inexistent happiness

But between your petals

Fragrant of love.

 

Medellin, 1979

 

 

Echoes from a sad soul - 22

 

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Tre tripping soul

 

The best of my brothers,

those who made the revolution

Love seekers

poetry creators

of poem’s verses

which caress my heart

 are gone.

I too begin to arrange my bag

For the last journey,

 that of the soul

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Remember

 

Remember

you are just passing through

on Earth

and the world does not belong to you

but it's your body

that belongs to Earth;

Remember

love has to be built

slowly,

while the passion

burns quickly everything;

Remember

that every man

has its own dignity

and deserves every respect.

Remember

of those who have sown

when you reap.

Remember

to greet the sun

each time it gets up

and every time it sets down.

Remember

you are light

which shines

in the darkness of eternity.

Echoes from a sad soul - 20

 

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The sun over Ligurian lands

I know

That you are there

Massimo

Where the sun shines

Over Ligurian Five Lands

Where the sea caresses your coasts

Whispering.

I know that you are there

between terraces and clusters

Sweat and love

of Liguria

you told me that.

And now I know that you are there

Forever

Although when You washed my feet,

that day in London, do you remember?

I did not understand

But now I know, who you were, who you are,

where the sun shines

on the Ligurian five lands.

Echoes from a sad soul - 19

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 Searching in the Universe

You were not ready man

To trip across the Universe

Through the endless skies

In the wheels of the Cosmos

No, you were not ready at all!

Who knows what are you going to be

Wearing those human clothes?

Inside your time

You can be what you want:

A man absorbed in his loves

With a lot of joy

Thousands of pleasures

So much power

And a desperate, lonely sunset;

 

A lonely man

Searching among his people

The truth hidden behind the prejudices

Aside the ravines of the mind

In the ancient, still unfold pages

Of the Imperishable Book;

 

Or maybe you will go far away

Pushed by the Ulysses hint

To discover what is set

Behind the borders

of the known world!

 

No, you were not ready yet

For your trip through the Universe!

You have been stopped by your affections

Or by your sickness

Your miserable power;

 

Or perhaps

Your boat was simply

still too fragile

to face the fluctuating sea

of mysterious storms on the Space.

You’ll have to enjoy and suffer

Again and again

Constrained in your material borders

Before you can deserve to rejoin

The Divine Unity has All created!

                                                                                                           In Villasor-Sardinia 1985