Sunday, 20 March 2022

Five Poems by Carla Maria Kovšca

 


Wave one

 

I’ll keep you forever

in the deep secret of my heart,

where the darkest passions rest and are covered by silence

breath to breath.

 

My lover’s tongue is dry and,

like a bird-mother,

I’d like to wash your draught

with honey and light dew.

 

Words flow under the mind frame,

their unknown meaning

fly up the soul,

looking at clouds in blues.

 


Wave two

 

I’m like a gypsy glimpsing being

who doesn’t remember clearly

what happened in her life.

 

Only ballades and earth’s vibration

open her mind, but the throat is silent.

 

The wandering being repeats her exercises again

like an actor who fits the body and refines her thought

warming the breath

brightening the voice

searching inexplicable words,

missing in the memory.

 

Take me still looking towards the leaves

up in the sky

only one time

but suddenly, covering my body under the turf,

the black Styx shall murmur around me,

where the asphodels blossom over my eyes.

 


“Lachrymose” in purple street

 

The young man was offering roses in the dark eve.

Sad words he received,

but they were swallowed up

by the night.

 

Without an authentic  question,

actions will be suspended, in reason that

human beings call satisfaction

their realization.

 

There is  hope even in

not realizing  everything we make every day,

pace by pace.

 

A pale light dyed in blue,

the farewell smile;

the evening opened the heart to remind  and to meditate.

 

The King and Queen’s tent is ready.

Enter, midnight has arrived.

 


This changes Everything? *

 

Even Caesar** was tired of slaughtering lambs,

even Caesar didn’t remember to make  his sacrifice,

even Caesar didn’t have the courage to be a dictator,

 

even I love you in  my lonely way but, doing this thing,

I can’t love you as you would like.

 

Everything lives by its own feeling,

so humans aren’t able to maintain

honest relationships

with the Truth.

 

*Quotation from book by Naomi Klein published in 2014:“This changes Everything”.

**Caesar refers to Pontius Pilate Roman procurator. Caesar was the appellation  given to him as an imperial representative.

 

 

To Miroslav *with love

 

Deserter

 

The deserter is one who leaves power,

to follow an impulse stronger than his own will.

 

The deserter doesn’t act on mere instinct.

He isn’t a prisoner that is escaping from justice.

The deserter lays down any kind of arm, material or immaterial.

 

The deserter abandons the thought: “I have to defend myself with arms

to save myself and  the community in which I belong.”

 

The deserter is calling  for peace without the sound of this word.

He buried his arms in the moor.

He buried his  sweetest friend.

He left his beloved woman.

 

The deserter is a flower in the blinding  desert of shame.

*Miroslav was the original name of my father: Federico Kovšca




Carla Maria Kovšca began writing  while leading a research group in Structural Engineering and Seismic Studied around the turn of the century.

In 2004 her research was awarded the Angelini Prize by Athenaeum of Sciences Letters and Arts Bergamo.

Over the last twelve years Carla M. has continued to explore and develop her artistic endeavors, becoming a dance therapist specializing in the Fux Method.

This collection of poetry represents her tribute to Feldenkrais Method in relationship with her own path in awareness through movement.

 

 

 

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