"THE LAST TRAVEL"a poem by Maria Miraglia

 

THE LAST TRAVEL

Crouched

At nightfall

On your old armchair

Next to you

A small table

With a few books

Placed there with care and

An unlit lamp

The sky outside

Is getting sad

Like your soul

While with nostalgia

You are going back to your past

Pausing here and there

Maybe you feel you have regrets and

Would like to stop the time

Grab it

Stop its run

But bitterness and hopeless

you witness the alternation of days and nights

Following the season

Bloom the branches again

In spring

But anon

You seem to hear

The rain falling on the roofs

Or the snow fills

The air of white flakes

And dance to the light

Blows of the wind

From that dark room

Your hands on the tired legs

Take another look at the sky

You have no escape

You think

Once departed from here

That will be your endpoint

It's dawn

The window is still open

You still there

Your eyes are closed

The white face

As carved marble

You have completed your journey

In silence and alone

On a moonless night

@ Maria Miraglia

Maria Miraglia is a poet, essayist, translator, and peace activist. Her commitment to human rights and peace activism is evident in her long-standing memberships of Amnesty International and Ican, the International Observatory for Human Rights. She is also Vice President of the World Movement for the Defense of Children (Kenya) and the founder of the World Peace Foundation.

Dr. Miraglia's influence on contemporary literature is significant. As a cosmopolitan Italian writer, her academic curriculum is impressive, placing her among the stars of the literary world. She is a founding member and Literary Director of the Pablo Neruda Association and a member of several editorial boards of international literary magazines;

Member of the International Writers Association; Member of the International Academy Mihai Eminescu; Honorary Member of Naciones Unitas de las Letras; Poet Laureate 2018, WNWU; and World Poet Laureate and Golden Medal Xi-an, China.

She writes in Italian, English, or both languages. Her poems have been translated into over thirty languages and are prominent in over one hundred anthologies worldwide. The work that made her known to a broad audience of readers is Dancing Winds, also translated into Telugu. Among her latest anthologies, Colored Butterflies and Echi nell’Aria.

Miraglia is a writer with considerable skills. She has an exquisite imagination; her style is lucid, transparent in thought, philosophical and meaningful in substance. She has been able to skillfully intertwine emotions and creativity, philosophy, logic and reason, giving her poems an air of new beauty. Her various traits and values inspire her readers. She expresses her broad humanity, magnanimity, aesthetic abilities, delicate sensitivity and concern for global peace and harmony. Her originality makes her a genuinely brilliant writer.

Miraglia Maria A

Literary Director of P. Neruda

Founder President of WFP.

Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts- Salzburg