One night


The red bright shout of calm sunset is burning
reflecting in the windows' lucid glass
and before my eyes are sadly strewing
thick with black ink of well arranged words
empty sheets of white paper...
Barren time's passing like a gentle wind
that skims the leafs of a bizarre calendar
ornamented, but lacking days and hours
jagging the dark blue of the woods' background
spangled with shiny dots....
Nothing I doth but wait the stars arising.
Smoothly in the lonely land's coming the night
soothing the soul and calling forth the peace.
While the sound of your breath's filling the room
longings're pressing and urging, but thou please
doth not wake from the mistery of this sleep
that's caressing my wills by wings of silence

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 Lino Prospero Bertuzzi