Secret of the Poet (After Ungaretti)


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Noctilucent clouds, Kuresoo bog, Soomaa National Park, Estonia: photo by Martin Koitmäe, 2009



I only friend the night
With her, time is not

A waiting in vain for the hours to go by
It is a slippage of instants

A trembling of the pulse
From which I can't turn away

So that
Dragged out of the shadows

Hope sparks up
In the silence

Again



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Laser beam directed toward the centre of the Milky Way from Yepun laser star guide facility at ESO Paranal Observatory, Chile, crossing the southern sky and creating an artificial star at 90 km. altitude in Earth's mesosphere: photo by ESO/Yuri Beletsky, 2010

After Giuseppi Ungaretti: Segreto del poeta (Secret of the poet) from La terra promessa (The promised land), 1950