Colours (English)--By Claudia Messelodi--Italy

Colours (English)

The moment your eyes

deeply pierce

the unassailable terrain

of my inner roots,

soothing the ancient scars

of dumb bleeding wounds,

warming up the chill

of a barren loneliness,

I find pieces of myself

gathered

assembled

into a new creature,

rescued by love…

And there,

like a rainbow butterfly

flying by

after the blinding storm,

you whisper to my ear:

-I shall light your colours

forever and ever.

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Colori (Italian)

Come i tuoi occhi

profondamente penetrano

i territori inespugnabili

delle mie radici interiori,

a lenire le cicatrici antiche

di mute, sanguinanti ferite,

a mitigare il gelo

di un’arida solitudine,

io ritrovo

pezzetti di me,

raccolti

ricomposti

a formare una nuova creatura

salvata dall’amore.

E nell’istante,

come farfalla d’arcobaleno

dopo la buia tormenta,

solleticandomi

sussurri al mio orecchio:

-Accenderò i tuoi colori

sempre e sempre.

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Claudia Messelodi lives in Italy where she works as a foreign language teacher at a secondary school. She is the author of five poetry collections. She loves writing haiku and other short forms of poetry both in English and Italian and sometimes in other foreign languages too. Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies and publications over the last few years and was also honored with several awards.