Swans Commentary » swans.com March 9, 2009  

 

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by Guido Monte

 

Multilingual Poetry

 

 

 

 

morte-vita © 2006 Guido Monte

 

 

(Swans - March 9, 2009)  

men marched asleep
tenebris ac carcere caeco
inside darkness and blind prison,
dead eyes dead colours...
but you gave ear to a simple cry
"fratelli"

in one word
just a possible rescue
a simple word in the night
involontaria rivolta
unpremeditated revolt
against our desire of death

a simple word
breaks the chain of war

"brothers"

 

 

This experiment remembers the poem Fratelli ("Brothers") of Giuseppe Ungaretti. Ungaretti, young Italian soldier in the First World War, during a night battle heard a cry of an invisible stranger, "brothers," and understood conclusively the absurdity of every war.

Picture: morte-vita (2006), by Guido Monte.

 

 

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