#poetrycafe — Public Fediverse posts

Someone left a very nice ("Canada Nice") message about of the last poems I posted, Carnival Rations. It is so hard to get feedback when every other person it out there offering this or that perspective, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I think even regular readers are shaded in such a way they feel compelled not to comment.

https://subspacewagon.systems/carnival-rations/

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Someone left a very nice ("Canada Nice") message about of the last poems I posted, Carnival Rations. It is so hard to get feedback when every other person it out there offering this or that perspective, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I think even regular readers are shaded in such a way they feel compelled not to comment.

https://subspacewagon.systems/carnival-rations/

#Poetry #PoemADay #PoetryLover #Poem #TodaysPoem #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #PoetryCafe #literature #art #amwriting

#poetrycafe #poetry #fediphoto #healingthroughphotography #GriefAndHealing #healingart #raw #words #dark #picturesandwords
I’m putting my feelings into words
and putting them on my photos

#poetrycafe #poetry #fediphoto #healingthroughphotography #GriefAndHealing #healingart #raw #words #dark #picturesandwords
I’m putting my feelings into words
and putting them on my photos

#poetrycafe #poetry #fediphoto #healingthroughphotography #GriefAndHealing #healingart #raw #words #dark #picturesandwords
I’m putting my feelings into words
and putting them on my photos

#poetrycafe #poetry #fediphoto #healingthroughphotography #GriefAndHealing #healingart #raw #words #dark #picturesandwords
I’m putting my feelings into words
and putting them on my photos

(Check this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/alla-sera/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

Here is a beautiful classic that I hardly can stand anymore, having been force fed it innumerable times in school and in all sorts of anthologies.

Evening is the image of death, the eternal quiet and nothingness that promises peace.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

(Check this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/alla-sera/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

Here is a beautiful classic that I hardly can stand anymore, having been force fed it innumerable times in school and in all sorts of anthologies.

Evening is the image of death, the eternal quiet and nothingness that promises peace.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Not sure what the very best way to start a year might be, but one can’t go wrong starting with a smile.

https://italianpoetry.it/poems/rinovazione-del-buon-capo-danno-a-d.-ciccio-per-lingresso-del-1683/

So let me wish everyone an excellent 2025 using the same verses that our friend Lazzarelli employed to wish a great 1683 to his nemesis, Don Ciccio: may all the planets bring you joy, bless you and conserve you!

Well... all verses, except the last one :)

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Not sure what the very best way to start a year might be, but one can’t go wrong starting with a smile.

https://italianpoetry.it/poems/rinovazione-del-buon-capo-danno-a-d.-ciccio-per-lingresso-del-1683/

So let me wish everyone an excellent 2025 using the same verses that our friend Lazzarelli employed to wish a great 1683 to his nemesis, Don Ciccio: may all the planets bring you joy, bless you and conserve you!

Well... all verses, except the last one :)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Christmas happens every year, even when we are at war. This poem by Ungaretti is introduced by the indication "Napoli il 26 dicembre 1916": he was on temporary leave from the front of WW1, and visiting his friend's house in Naples.

Check out https://italianpoetry.it/poems/natale/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #war #Xmas

Christmas happens every year, even when we are at war. This poem by Ungaretti is introduced by the indication "Napoli il 26 dicembre 1916": he was on temporary leave from the front of WW1, and visiting his friend's house in Naples.

Check out https://italianpoetry.it/poems/natale/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #war #Xmas

Christmas happens every year, even when we are at war. This poem by Ungaretti is introduced by the indication "Napoli il 26 dicembre 1916": he was on temporary leave from the front of WW1, and visiting his friend's house in Naples.

Check out https://italianpoetry.it/poems/natale/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #war #Xmas

In this sonnet, Leon Battista Alberti explores the mismatch between human desire and things as they turn out, and in particular the frustrating effect of wanting something *too much*, and for that reason, losing it. As he pithily puts it in the last verse, *troppo voler mal corrisponde*: "too much willing is a bad match."

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In this sonnet, Leon Battista Alberti explores the mismatch between human desire and things as they turn out, and in particular the frustrating effect of wanting something *too much*, and for that reason, losing it. As he pithily puts it in the last verse, *troppo voler mal corrisponde*: "too much willing is a bad match."

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

In this sonnet, Leon Battista Alberti explores the mismatch between human desire and things as they turn out, and in particular the frustrating effect of wanting something *too much*, and for that reason, losing it. As he pithily puts it in the last verse, *troppo voler mal corrisponde*: "too much willing is a bad match."

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

We love life not because of rare moments of bliss, or for the long stretches in which nothing much is felt, and not in spite of the pain. We love it *because* of the desire, though unsatisfiable; *because* of love, though destined to be never enough; *because* of the limitless darkness that we can ever only very partially explore.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems//non-vita-perché-tu-sei-nella-notte/ for the full experience)
#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian

We love life not because of rare moments of bliss, or for the long stretches in which nothing much is felt, and not in spite of the pain. We love it *because* of the desire, though unsatisfiable; *because* of love, though destined to be never enough; *because* of the limitless darkness that we can ever only very partially explore.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems//non-vita-perché-tu-sei-nella-notte/ for the full experience)
#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian

We love life not because of rare moments of bliss, or for the long stretches in which nothing much is felt, and not in spite of the pain. We love it *because* of the desire, though unsatisfiable; *because* of love, though destined to be never enough; *because* of the limitless darkness that we can ever only very partially explore.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems//non-vita-perché-tu-sei-nella-notte/ for the full experience)
#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian

Two young lovers are looking for a place where they can "make one life out of two." All the afternoon they wander around under the sun, surrounded by the noise and the comings and goings of adult, everyday life.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/caro-luogo/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Two young lovers are looking for a place where they can "make one life out of two." All the afternoon they wander around under the sun, surrounded by the noise and the comings and goings of adult, everyday life.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/caro-luogo/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Complaining about technology is not something exclusively modern.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/lorologio-da-rote/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Complaining about technology is not something exclusively modern.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/lorologio-da-rote/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

How do you put the whole of human existence in three verses? Well, this is one way.

Are you an uncharitable reader who isn't impressed by Quasimodo's Nobel Prize and would quip "I could also write three lines without even a rhyme"?

But of course there's more than meets the eye.

Check https://italianpoetry.it/poems/ed-è-subito-sera/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe

How do you put the whole of human existence in three verses? Well, this is one way.

Are you an uncharitable reader who isn't impressed by Quasimodo's Nobel Prize and would quip "I could also write three lines without even a rhyme"?

But of course there's more than meets the eye.

Check https://italianpoetry.it/poems/ed-è-subito-sera/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe

How do you put the whole of human existence in three verses? Well, this is one way.

Are you an uncharitable reader who isn't impressed by Quasimodo's Nobel Prize and would quip "I could also write three lines without even a rhyme"?

But of course there's more than meets the eye.

Check https://italianpoetry.it/poems/ed-è-subito-sera/ for help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe

A satirically-rustic take on a love poem. Probably written by Lorenzo il Magnifico (?).

Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/la-nencia-di-barberino/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

A satirically-rustic take on a love poem. Probably written by Lorenzo il Magnifico (?).

Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/la-nencia-di-barberino/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

A satirically-rustic take on a love poem. Probably written by Lorenzo il Magnifico (?).

Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/la-nencia-di-barberino/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Michelangelo is known mostly for art you can see with your eyes, but he also catered to ears. This is a love sonnet to Vittoria Colonna, from his Canzoniere.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/non-ha-lottimo-artista/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Michelangelo is known mostly for art you can see with your eyes, but he also catered to ears. This is a love sonnet to Vittoria Colonna, from his Canzoniere.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/non-ha-lottimo-artista/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Michelangelo is known mostly for art you can see with your eyes, but he also catered to ears. This is a love sonnet to Vittoria Colonna, from his Canzoniere.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/non-ha-lottimo-artista/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

On https://italianpoetry.it/poems/voi-chascoltate-in-rime-sparse-il-suono/ : help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, notes to the most difficult words.

A (the?) foundational poem of much of Italian lyric tradition, opening Petrarch's Canzoniere.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

An ode to the awakening of desire. And a warning that it might not end up being what you were hoping for.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/presagio/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

An ode to the awakening of desire. And a warning that it might not end up being what you were hoping for.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/presagio/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

An ode to the awakening of desire. And a warning that it might not end up being what you were hoping for.

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/presagio/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/trasformazione-di-dafne-in-lauro/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

A short, beautiful and at the same time brutal Baroque poem on the rape of Daphne.

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #rape

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/sia-pace-ai-frati/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

A small anticlerical epigram: priests, stay in your place!

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #religion #secularism

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/sia-pace-ai-frati/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

A small anticlerical epigram: priests, stay in your place!

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #religion #secularism

(Please check out this poem on https://italianpoetry.it/poems/sia-pace-ai-frati/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

A small anticlerical epigram: priests, stay in your place!

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #religion #secularism

In this very short ballad Pascoli paints an impressionistic picture of the moment right before the start of a torrential storm, at night.

(Please check out this poem at https://italianpoetry.it/poems/il-lampo for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

In this very short ballad Pascoli paints an impressionistic picture of the moment right before the start of a torrential storm, at night.

(Please check out this poem at https://italianpoetry.it/poems/il-lampo for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian

Very smoky out this morning, the sun a deep orange. When Wally was a puppy three years ago, it was like this, though worse. Hotter, and the grass dry and stiff. I wrote about that smoky summer and @robmclennan published it at Dusie. It's one of the poems in my (still technically circulating?) MS.

https://dusie.blogspot.com/2022/01/tuesday-poem-460-julian-day-red-sun.html

#poetrycafe #poem #todayspoem

Very smoky out this morning, the sun a deep orange. When Wally was a puppy three years ago, it was like this, though worse. Hotter, and the grass dry and stiff. I wrote about that smoky summer and @robmclennan published it at Dusie. It's one of the poems in my (still technically circulating?) MS.

https://dusie.blogspot.com/2022/01/tuesday-poem-460-julian-day-red-sun.html

#poetrycafe #poem #todayspoem

Very smoky out this morning, the sun a deep orange. When Wally was a puppy three years ago, it was like this, though worse. Hotter, and the grass dry and stiff. I wrote about that smoky summer and @robmclennan published it at Dusie. It's one of the poems in my (still technically circulating?) MS.

https://dusie.blogspot.com/2022/01/tuesday-poem-460-julian-day-red-sun.html

#poetrycafe #poem #todayspoem

Very smoky out this morning, the sun a deep orange. When Wally was a puppy three years ago, it was like this, though worse. Hotter, and the grass dry and stiff. I wrote about that smoky summer and @robmclennan published it at Dusie. It's one of the poems in my (still technically circulating?) MS.

https://dusie.blogspot.com/2022/01/tuesday-poem-460-julian-day-red-sun.html

#poetrycafe #poem #todayspoem

I prepared this ("Aging Beauty") before remembering what day tomorrow is... But maybe moms of the age of my own might appreciate this simple, funny epigram from the 1600s :)

(Check out this poem on the Italian Poetry website https://italianpoetry.it/poems/bella-chinvecchia/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #mothers #mothersday

I prepared this ("Aging Beauty") before remembering what day tomorrow is... But maybe moms of the age of my own might appreciate this simple, funny epigram from the 1600s :)

(Check out this poem on the Italian Poetry website https://italianpoetry.it/poems/bella-chinvecchia/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #mothers #mothersday

I prepared this ("Aging Beauty") before remembering what day tomorrow is... But maybe moms of the age of my own might appreciate this simple, funny epigram from the 1600s :)

(Check out this poem on the Italian Poetry website https://italianpoetry.it/poems/bella-chinvecchia/ for the full experience: help with the translation, listening to the reading out loud, and some more notes to the most difficult words.)

#poetry #literature #poem #todayspoem #poetrylovers #poetrycafe #italian #LearningItalian #mothers #mothersday

#poetrycafe - Poem for today:

"Then we kiss and his lips turn into sand
And the whole of him
Cascades through my hands
Making a castle on the floor
Then I'm alone again no keys and three doors
In a smoke filled room."

From the song " Smoke" by " Daughter. I love the song and used to carry the lyrics as a poem with me.

https://youtu.be/iTuYunp4a3Y?si=dbQ1A_QU5xU9oFw4

#poetrycafe - Poem for today:

"Then we kiss and his lips turn into sand
And the whole of him
Cascades through my hands
Making a castle on the floor
Then I'm alone again no keys and three doors
In a smoke filled room."

From the song " Smoke" by " Daughter. I love the song and used to carry the lyrics as a poem with me.

https://youtu.be/iTuYunp4a3Y?si=dbQ1A_QU5xU9oFw4

#poetrycafe - Poem for today:

"Then we kiss and his lips turn into sand
And the whole of him
Cascades through my hands
Making a castle on the floor
Then I'm alone again no keys and three doors
In a smoke filled room."

From the song " Smoke" by " Daughter. I love the song and used to carry the lyrics as a poem with me.

https://youtu.be/iTuYunp4a3Y?si=dbQ1A_QU5xU9oFw4

#poetrycafe - Poem for today:

"Then we kiss and his lips turn into sand
And the whole of him
Cascades through my hands
Making a castle on the floor
Then I'm alone again no keys and three doors
In a smoke filled room."

From the song " Smoke" by " Daughter. I love the song and used to carry the lyrics as a poem with me.

https://youtu.be/iTuYunp4a3Y?si=dbQ1A_QU5xU9oFw4

#poetrycafe - Words for today:

Cigarettes and wine
I confused sugar and salt
All I needed was
Hearing your voice.

Just some words I can't get out of my head since I wrote them.

#poetrycafe - Words for today:

Cigarettes and wine
I confused sugar and salt
All I needed was
Hearing your voice.

Just some words I can't get out of my head since I wrote them.