SHYNESS
The shyness,
like the deep sea that is constantly moving
that hides an underwater world to which few can access.
The shyness,
that unknown idea
and pursued by all
too easy to manage and too difficult to share.
The shyness,
that kind look that
Spring scent
lying in the autumn undergrowth playing every line of ink.
It's shyness,
the protagonist of autumn,
from signs of life to the first ray of a sunset
Beating the eyelashes
to the last ray of a desired sunrise
PAGES OF A SUMMER
I wrote waves of thoughts at the sunset of a summer
chasing the best dreams
on the edge of the ink.
I listened to my heart
nice and a little shy gave me warmth again.
It was summer that day
scents, colors, melodies, amber skin
they came to life from a shell.
Time stopped in that instant.
I wrote a page for game
picking up pebbles by the sea and watching bubbles.
In that eternal moment it was summer
who lives by flipping through these pages immersed in the sea
that sea that releases new verses
when the float rests
Anna Ferriero is an Italian poet, WNWU member, doctor honoris causa, Naaman member and literary translator (Cervantes Napoli). She is the author of two poetry collections: MAGIA D'AMORE (Leer Editrice) and PUNTO - Oltre l'Orizzonte (Albatros IlFilo). She is the author of two short stories published by Vitale Edizioni (La cripta dei desideri and Ombre allo specchio). She has participated in national and international literary competitions and some of her poems have been translated into Turkish, Serbian, Croatian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Albanian, Arabic… Her poems have been published in Spiragli, Azahar, Orfeu (Albania), Güncel Sanat (Turkey), Deahchito (Bangladesh), Nuovo Mondo (China), Namastè India Magazine (India), The Underline (India), Polismagazino (Greece), Kültür Sanat (Turkey), gabriell-e-lit (Bulgaria). She is among the authors of the Nicaraguan anthology 2023 Canto Planetario – Hermandad en la Tierra II volume. She collaborates with Güncel Sanat, Azahar, Atunis Poetry (Albania), reviews books on the literary newspaper of Novoli. In 2021 her poem YAKAMOZ was awarded the Mahadevi Werma Writers Award as best poem. In 2021 she was a juror at the Cape Comorin Award (India). In 2023 she received the International Social Journalism Award. She attended the Creative Writing course 2023 edition Associazione culturale Gusto per Roma.
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