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l’alba: un topos alla portata di tutti
Across the sunrise: a topos for everyone.
translation by Claudia Munafò text by Any65
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Poetry has a very special place among classical arts. It is not because everyone tried (or keep trying) to master this form of art in various ways and for different reasons. “Writing” poetry is not an élite activity or an ability only a few people have. It is a way to express oneself that anyone can use once they discovered its secret. Tra le forme di arte più classiche, la poesia occupa di sicuro un posto d’eccellenza e questo perché è la forma con cui tutti gli essere umani si sono cimentati - e continuano a cimentarsi - a vario titolo e per diverse ragioni. Anche “scrivere” poesie non è un arte d’élite o una competenza alla portata di pochi: è, invece, una modalità espressiva alla portata di tutti una volta compreso il suo segreto.
| Roman, A tree against the lake of Geneva at sunrise.
The secret is a hug, warmth, colour. The secret is expanding your horizons, mostly the interior ones, and going beyond the limits of a dominant culture that wants to force everyone to focus on the language of the mind, rationality, psychological severity and stringent logic. On the other side, writing poetry means sharing a part of your identity instead of your knowledge. Writing poetry means being able to peer, read and seize any sign of the world/reality that surrounds you. It is introspection, seeing with the eyes of the heart and expressing your or other people’s feelings. Thus, poets paint the human soul, emotions, love, memories, nostalgia, joy, pain and translate all of them into words. Those words become verses with a pleasant rhythm that fascinates and enchants.
The semantics of their verses and the sound of every single phoneme transmit exciting and emotional songs. Poetry requires an exceptional sensitivity in form but this is not the reason why it became popular. In fact, you can find wannabe or failed poets among ordinary people, mostly adolescents. According to them, quotations, aphorisms, songs, the most spectacular sunset and single moments can be poetry and they evoke, suggest and/ or transmit more than its meaning. Their semantics, which is not always clear, lets readers associate it with their personal values and meanings.
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| Susanne Nilsson, Dawn.
Sunday’s sunrise
It was four o’clock and I was awake but my eyes were still tired. The dark was slowly lighting up: It was the sunrise The atmosphere was festive. I was cold and once I put my slippers on I went to the window. I was staring in wonder that beautiful morning light and those Shimmering dewdrops: I was daydreaming about being one of them and being able to be free.
Any65 september 1979
When poetry has blank verses, expressiveness has no limits. Thanks to its extraordinary ability to evoke different feelings to each one of us, expressiveness is always infinite. It collects and harmonises feelings and translates them into words, landscapes and drawings. Each one of them relies on our life to bring past experiences back, to make us think about the events that characterise our present, to encourage us to dream as if we still were innocent children.
| Nico Aguilera, Sunrise’s sky.
