MARIA MIRAGLIA

MARIA MIRAGLIA

Survival

What a strange thing

Man thought

I don't know where I'm from

Why I am

Nothing I asked that I remember

And to anyone

I didn't even know life existed

On this earth

But here I am

it's done now

So  I find myself with this baggage

On the shoulders

And I don’t know what to do

To move on

Right or left

Nobody to explain it

I look around and don't understand

The language that others like me

the same eyes on the forehead

the same mouth talk

And if sometimes I seem to grasp

Immediately I notice what they say

Never comes from the heart

But from the mind

So I find myself in confusion

In a world where there are seasons

Where the day alternates with the night

And something tells me that in the morning

I have to get up quickly

Go to such a place

Where I will be asked to do a job

And stay there until evening

The time of a yawn

And  everything starts again

Tired, worn out

In a babel where I hear voices

But never anyone who stops

To listen to what I say

and I strive and then again

But for what

Many say for survival

And meanwhile

The last day of my journey arrives

@ Maria Miraglia

Who Am I

I walked under the sun

and in the rain

climbed mountains

sailed seas

crossed green meadows

left my footsteps

on snowy roads

in search of truths unknown

looking my eyes for

glimmers of light

Many still the paths

winding before me

but firm the will

to keep going on

sure my step

dawn after dawn

till the sky turns on

its bright lamps

and silent will be all

the world around

@ Maria Miraglia

Fragments

Like a thief

I steal from time

Fragments of  life

To keep them carefully

In a crystal casket

So when fate is

To me adverse

The memory

Of those fleeting moments

That drew once

Smiles on my face

Brightened my soul

Like a ray of white moon

A dark night

Will make me feel alive

Again

In a world of deaths

@ Maria Miraglia

MARIA MIRAGLIA

MARIA MIRAGLIA: Educationist, poet, translator, peace activist, Maria A. Miraglia was born and lives in Italy. For a long time, an active member of Amnesty International, she herself founder and chairwoman of World Foundation for Peace. Member of Ican, of the International Observatory for Information and Human Rights. Founding member and literary director of the Italian cultural association P. Neruda, honorary member of Nationes Unidas de las Letras, advisory member of the editor board of Galaktika Poetike Autunis, member of the editorial board of Our poetry Archive, member of the editorial advisory board of Sahitya Anand. Presidente de la organization Mundial de los Trovatores, Italy and Deputy President – Coordination, at a child rights global organization, the United World Movement for Children (UWMC). She collaborates for poetry with numerous national and international newspapers and magazines. Her poems have been translated into several foreign languages and are collected in numberless anthologies all over the world.  Dr Maria Miraglia is often a welcome guest of international events for poetry. Beauty and profundity are the most important characteristic of Maria Miraglia’s works and although these elements are found in some of the exceptional works by modern writers, blending them together seems a challenge for many, where Maria is found to be successful applying them into her poems. Author of anthologies in Italian, English or both languages She is recipient of numerous national and international awards and recognition.