Iolanda Leotta

 

Iolanda Leotta

 

Overnight Melancholy

 

My abstract companion is you

ineffable melancholy,

in your sorrow is my composed sadness,

the same as yours is my bitterness.

 

Melancholy recondite,

with you, in silence, palpitates my soul,

dear emotions my hands on pages imprint,

so sweet and melancholic poems are born,

refined expression of the motions of my spirit.

 

Softly melancholy,

your lips whisper arcane words,

I hear it as a masterful symphony

that penetrates my mind and convince me

that you’ll follow me unchanged,

indefinite feeling.

 

Serene melancholy,

old companion in the long hours of quiet,

only you can create in the dreary winter days

a candid and musical atmosphere,

because in your purity there’s also mine,

sweet, endless melancholy.

 

 

 

The Exhilaration Of The Night

 

The exhilaration of the night,

enlightens always my soul,

It slowly goes down the street

and everything becomes poetry,

in the shade and between the light

of the street lamps.

It’s sluggish and silent,

its melancholy seems to whisper

something unrealistic,

people's hearts, the rivers and seas

are soothed by its breeze.

Refinement spreads in the night

scent of incomparable freshness,

purifying of the tormented souls.

I seem to recall the taste of customs

now lost, whispers of unknown voices ,

sounds of guitars and mandolins,

good times spent with songs,

serenade and lost friends.

It’s really evanescent the essence

of the exhilaration,

It comes from such a mystery,

from a cosmos created by a supreme mind

to inebriate and refresh the broken spirit.

The last star lights up in the sky,

I've given it a brilliant name

enshrined in the firmament.

There won’t be name more beautiful

than mine, I’ll be so excited

thinking it come to enlighten me,

I’ll distinguish among thousands of stars

my “Lucky Star” and I’m going to exclaim:

“Appear! I’m waiting for you,

It's the middle of the night. Shine!”

Don’t forget to grant my desire!

 

 

 

Nighttime Shivers

 

The macabre vision

of an heinous murder,

of a crime in the night

it’s chilling.

Shivers,

frost the blood

of witnesses,

shakes the limbs paralyzing

and on the face appears

an hysterical smile,

while the victim squirms

to wriggle free in vane,

the volition to hope

disintegrates into evil.

Shivers,

overwhelm the breath

by cutting it off,

dark shadows springs out

of nowhere,

upset the witnesses

of the horror,

with gaze terrified

and wide open eyes

next to the agonizing victim

that sees its future vanish

like smoke.

Finally a puerile cry

dissolves shivers,

only the horrifying vision

remains indelible.

 

IOLANDA LEOTTA

 

IOLANDA LEOTTA, poetess and storyteller, was born in Rocca di Neto (Kr), Calabria-Italy, on April 23, 1969. She holds a degree in Sciences of Linguistic Mediation. Cultural Mediator. She’s always felt the need to transfer on a piece of paper her feelings and emotions when she feels the inspiration. Recently, her poetry book “L’esploratrice dei sentimenti e dei valori umani” has been published in Italy, by Aletti editor, presented at “The Federiciano International Poetry Festival”, testimonial of the public event was A. Quasimodo, actor, author, theatrical director. She takes part in the Cultural Initiative “Alessandro Quasimodo reads Iolanda Leotta” with five poems published on Youtube channel: “La Fortuna”; “Fantasmi”; “L’Inganno”; “La Libertà” "Solitude". She attends the masterclasses with F. Gazzè, author; G. Anastasi, songwriter; D. Rondoni, poet, playwright, screenwriter and director; P. Suriano, journalist. She takes part in the Laboratory on poetic writing with: Mogol, lyricist, and record producer; G. Aletti, literary critic. Her poems are included in anthologies of International literary awards: "Premio Europa Cultura 1988" for the singularity and expressive particularity of her poems, official godmother of the event Nicoletta Orsomando television announcer of RAI Tv. Anthology "Poesia è femminile"; "Dedicato a.." Book editor, introduction by M. Giovanna Elmi television host of RAI Tv; "Altre parole d’amore", presented by M. Provenzano, writer and the president of “Cultura no stop”, S. Piras.; "Il Federiciano"; "Il Paese della Poesia"; “Habere Artem”; “Il Tiburtino”, president of the jury Hafez Haidar, nominated for the Nobel Prize; “Prize Salvatore Quasimodo” and "M. Cumani Quasimodo", poetess and dancer; "Tra un fiore colto e l’altro donato" president of the jury Cheope; "Verrà il Mattino e avrà un tuo verso”, introduction by M. Nava, songwriter; “Poetry prize Club della Poesia" president of the jury, prof. Pietropinto; “Diploma of merit” to CET School of Mogol.