today's pick is a bit of a cheat; the real morning hour song was Lily Allen's The Fear, again! As per Monday and Friday of last week. Now, I wrote that the song is brilliant... but I cannot write about it every single day! So I stayed in bed and waited for the next one...
Maybe Tomorrow was one of my favourite songs during the first months in London, a few years back- hence I thought today was going to be a good day. Unfortunately as I launched Firefox while sipping the coffee, the news from the earthquake in Italy hit me. Luckily, none of my relatives has been affected, and the only friend from the region is safe, as it's her family. Though, when a region close to home looks like a scrap yard and among the scrap you can see people... all the rest seems trivial and it's difficult to focus on the small things that make my everyday's life. I hope things don't get worst than they are (and look) right now in Abbruzzo.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Alcyone, Sogni di terre lontane
I PASTORI
Settembre, andiamo. E' tempo di migrare.
Ora in terra d'Abruzzi i miei pastori
lascian gli stazzi e vanno verso il mare:
scendono all'Adriatico selvaggio
che verde è come i pascoli dei monti.
Han bevuto profondamente ai fonti
alpestri, che sapor d'acqua natía
rimanga ne' cuori esuli a conforto,
che lungo illuda la lor sete in via.
Rinnovato hanno verga d'avellano.
E vanno pel tratturo antico al piano,
quasi per un erbal fiume silente,
su le vestigia degli antichi padri.
O voce di colui che primamente
conosce il tremolar della marina!
Ora lungh'esso il litoral cammina
la greggia. Senza mutamento è l'aria.
il sole imbionda sì la viva lana
che quasi dalla sabbia non divaria.
Isciacquío, calpestío, dolci romori.
Ah perché non son io cò miei pastori?
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
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Monday, April 6, 2009
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