franco.cilli59

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  November 2022     1 year ago

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Images of absences

Images of absences.

Deaf noises and croaked voices from the last cigarette.

Timeless reproaches, 

with the smile and anger of those in charge.

Manly gestures, beatings and human sacrifices

 of those who believe in blind tradition,

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Against the war

War notes,

Thoughts that from the front darkened by waxy flashes and congealed blood escape death and recreate old enmities and chains of inhuman figures.
War it is.
A word a bullet.
Not the same.
War it is.
Pacifists oblivious to the...

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Honour to the Moor

Honour to the Moor,
to his amused panting as a wise dwarf in London pubs.

To his watery gaze that scans the horizon of the sun of the future. Honour to him,
war on the spell of alienated lives and lost in the tar dust of Darbon.
Honour to the...

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Ikigai

Ikigai
Under the stem of the elm tree, caressed by greasy breezes of stingy remnants and smells of suburbia.
The sense of what. 
The medals we display are ancient pledges of war, 
of heroism and blood, over mosaic-paved roads on the way to...

by Franco Cilli

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excellent, intense poems of great depth

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