ON THE OPEN EYELASHES SHADOW I WEAVE

Fire flies into the blood go of a distant time.

Your words lying at my thoughts top I hear

It’s you to cover me making me dawn

.

More than the sword , sinks the emotion

In the boiling blood more than the must  

Less raw than the life blood

But if you caress me like a daisy

investigating petal by petal  

his yellow ochre heart to be reached

staring me in the lilac tattoo of the violet  

I still undo my shadow dress

come into me, don’t disappoint the wait

.

IF YOU’RE POETRY

My secret lover

Reach me in breeze or fire

In calm never

Let love be between torment and ecstasy  

Let it be hug between waiting and arrival

What a sweeter embrace

than in hope,  

never again hoped

my love?

At the fountain

of that ethereal shadow

there lies the heavy weight

of the universe:

we are human light

in the thunderbolt of blood,

spastic movements of pawns

in the dismal suffering

of this ”humanism”

for we can never know

the age of the soul

ours, or anybody’s.

And time seconds us

in space that polishes us

shavings of illusions.

I shall not escape my punishment:

well do I know

the mine of the blade

and I shall struggle to live

where all is ruination.  

Maria Teresa Liuzzo was born in Saline di Montebello Jonico and lives in Reggio di Calabria (Italy). President of the Lyric-Dramatic Association ”P. Benintende” – Journalist – Publisher. Chief Editor of the literary magazine ”LE MUSE” – Essayist – Lyricist – Literary and art critic – Director of Public Relations – Translator – Opinionist – Writer – Doctor of Psychology – Leibniz University Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. – Professor of Philosophy and Modern Literature – USA. – Correspondent of ”IL PONTE ITALO – AMERICANO” – USA – ”NUOVA CORVINA” EUROPA – (Hunedoara) – Collaborator of ”ALB-SPIRIT” TIRANA (ALBANIA), ”Gazzetta Nazionale” (Tirana). ”Perqasje” (Tirana); ”Gazeta Destinacioni” (Valona – Albania); ”Dritare” and ”Albania Press” (based in Rome); ”Atunis” (Belgium – Brussels); Alessandria Today (Italy); ”EZGULIK” – Bukhara (UZBEKISTAN) dir. Obid KOLDOSH.