Casida del llanto – Divan del Tamarit – Federico García Lorca – 1936 – with translation into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli To my habibi © 2023 Enzo Martinelli He cerrado mi balcónpor que no quiero oír el llantopero por detrás de los grises murosno se oye otra cosa que el llanto.Hay muy pocos ángeles que canten,hay muy pocos perros que ladren,mil violines caben … Continue reading Casida del llanto, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Sea-Drift – 1892 – translated from English into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2023 Enzo Martinelli ON the beach at night,Stands a child with her father,Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness,While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,Amid a transparent clear … Continue reading On the beach at night, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
À noite, by Fernando Pessoa – from Novas Poesias Inéditas, 1973 – translated into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2023 Enzo Martinelli O silêncio é teu gémeo no Infinito.Quem te conhece, sabe não buscar.Morte visível, vens dessedentarO vago mundo, o mundo estreito e aflito.Se os teus abismos constelados fito,Não sei quem sou ou qual o fim a darA tanta dor, a tanta ânsia … Continue reading À noite, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
Morts de quarte-vi get-douze – Reliquaire – – Arthur Rimbaud – 1891 – with translations from French into 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2023 Enzo Martinelli Morts de Quatre-vingt-douze et de Quatre-vingt-treize,Qui, pâles du baiser fort de la liberté,Calmes, sous vos sabots, brisiez le joug qui pèseSur l’âme et sur le front de toute humanité ;Hommes extasiés et grands dans la … Continue reading Morts de Quarte-vingt-douze, by Rimbaud 🌊✒️🇫🇷
El amor duerme en el pecho del poeta – Sonetos del amor oscuro – Federico García Lorca – 1936 – with translation into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2022 Enzo Martinelli Tú nunca entenderás lo que te quieroporque duermes en mí y estás dormido.Yo te oculto llorando, perseguidopor una voz de penetrante acero.Norma que agita igual carne y lucerotraspasa ya mi pecho doloridoy … Continue reading El amor duerme en el pecho del poeta, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Sea-drift – 1892 – translated from English into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2022 Enzo Martinelli TEARS! tears! tears!In the night, in solitude, tears,On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck’d in by the sand,Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head;O who is that ghost? … Continue reading Tears, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
Oscar Wilde, celebrated for his wit and aesthetic sensibility, is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and his brilliant plays, yet his Poems in Prose reveal a deeper, more contemplative facet of his artistry. Written in the 1890s, these short, symbolist-inflected parables blend biblical cadence with allegorical sharpness, exploring themes of beauty, morality, compassion, and judgment. Though less known than his epigrams or … Continue reading The Artist, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖
Insónia, by Fernando Pessoa using the heteronym Álvaro de Campos, 1929 – translated into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2022 Enzo Martinelli Não durmo, nem espero dormir.Nem na morte espero dormir.Espera-me uma insónia da largura dos astros,E um bocejo inútil do comprimento do mundo.Não durmo; não posso ler quando acordo de noite,Não posso escrever quando acordo de noite,Não posso pensar quando acordo de … Continue reading Insónia, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
A very early poet with a very short literary life, Arthur Rimbaud began writing poems as a teenager and stopped writing at the age of 20, completely abandoning his obvious poetic talent. During his period of literary creation, he was linked to another French poet, Paul Verlaine, with whom he spent a few years in London. Universally recognised as one of the precursors of symbolism … Continue reading Arthur Rimbaud ✒️📃🇬🇧
“El poeta habla por teléfono con el amor”, sonnet by Federico García Lorca, from his poetry collection “Sonetos del amor obscuro”, presented in original version in Spanish, illustrated, and in translation into English, Italian, Portuguese and French, curated by Enzo Martinelli. Continue reading El poeta habla por teléfono, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸
