Give A Little Something

The Winds Beat Soft Wings, And Strayed
(Resting in your lap)

[Photo taken at Villa Borghese, May 2017]

Come on to my house 
Come on and do something new 
I know you love one person so 
Why can't you love two? [Moz]

Hand In Glove

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

(And Eternity in an hour)

[Photo taken in Rome - May 2017]

No, it's not like any other love
This one is different, because it's us

I was tired again,
And I tried again
(and now my heart is full) [The Smiths/Moz]

Here far away

One could feel the earth vibrate

(moon changing shape and shade)

(Photo taken in Italy - Aug 2016)

Round we go,
Where we stop
No one knows
So tonight the moon I go

Yellow moon on the rise [PJ]

Walk beside me...

...to scold me

(not to guide me)

(Photo taken in Italy - Jan 2017)

I have been thinking what, with my final brain cell,

How time grips you, sliming, in its spell

And before you know, goodbye will be farewell

And you will never see the one you love again

[Moz]

This is the last post I will ever write - Noooooooooooo!

No I've changed my mind again - Ahhhhhhhhh

Goodnight, and thank you :)

I Pini di Roma

A different view, Parco degli Acquedotti

(by Ottorino Respighi)

 [Rome, Nov 2016]

Passionate love
In any form
Whether real or a dream

[Moz]

The Burden of Beauty

What Is It?

(I'll take it)

 [Rome, Oct 2016]

Is it me? For a moment
The stars are falling
The heat is rising
The past is calling

[Who]

Let's take a break

I say no, you say yes

(and you will change your mind)

 [Trajan's Market, Oct 2016]

I left the South again

I travelled North again

I got confused - I killed a horse

You won't change the way I feel

[The Smiths]

Everything is confused in Rome, at night

Anniversary

(Listen to the short step of the things)

[Photo taken in May 2014]

You touch profiles
Of a long series of signs
With your hands
They are memories.

Like a Walk on the Sea Foam

She closes her eyes and begins to fly

(Expo Milan 2015, Tunisie Pavillion)

[Photo taken in Oct 2015]

And the child in the yard is playing
Throwing stones to the sky and in the sea
Every time that she hits a star
She closes her eyes and begins to dream
[FdA]

codex Hilarus

Sketches of Memories

Time will never wipe you out

(I loved once, I loved twice...)

[Photo taken in February 2016]

Come on and do something new
I know you love one person so
Why can't you love two?
[Moz]

How Dare I Be So Beautiful?

We watch in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower

(Expo Milan 2015, Morocco Pavillion)

[Photo taken in Aug 2015]

I've been waiting here for so long
And all this time has passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now 
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say.

 Why don't you touch me, touch me...
Now!
[From Genesis To Revelation]

codex Hilarus

At every stone under my steps I heard a sound

Green stones that mind wraps its skin in this haunt [C. Coolidge]

(Expo Milan 2015, Japan Pavillion)

[Photo taken in July 2015]

The man who loves, he struggles
In a salt lake dried by the sun,
And he doesn't pray, but dance,
Silent presence that shaken,
No known music can explain us,
Because a sound is a hope,
But this man denies and clinging in vain
To a thought love. He drowns.
[Maz Gazzè]

codex Hilarus

A Song at Expo (somehow)

I've got no charm

(Expo Milan 2015, Korea Pavillion)

[Photo taken in August 2015]

Tonight I've consumed much more than I can hold,
Oh, this is very clear to you.
And you can tell I have never really loved.
You can tell, by the way, I sleep all day.
[Moz]

Half in hell, half on earth - Persephone

Just another false alarm: the doubt of the dream

("Persephone C", aka The Woman Carrot, by Luigi Serafini - Expo Milan 2015)

[Photo taken in August 2015]

In Serafini's nursery there are leaves-cloud sprinkling flowers, leaves-web catching insects. Trees uproot themselves and walk, to go to the shore where they sail flapping its roots as boat propellers.

[From Italo Calvino "Collection of Sand"]     

       codex Hilarus

A Poem at Expo (somehow)

Per trovarti, mio lungo amante, devo cercarti tra le braccia di un’altra o in cima ad Archimede [A. Merini]

(Expo Milan 2015, UK Pavillion)

[Photo taken in August 2015]

To find you, my longed-lover,
I have to find you in the arms of another heart
Or on top of this mechanical hive.

The man who is staring at his dreams

Anniversary

(Ascolta il passo breve delle cose)

[Photo taken in April 2015]

It should be something amazing to have the chance to look at our own dreams.
Anytime we like, like a photo album...

The Stendhal Syndrome

Someday I stopped somewhere to stare art pieces

(Strolling across museums)

[Photos taken in 2011-2015]

In European hushed museums
Will I see you?
[Moz]

Kiss Me Alot, Again

A Memory - Part II

(I stopped here to stare at the horizon)

[Photo taken in December 2013]

Love is living two thousand dreams until the sublime kiss
[Alda Merini]

Kiss Me Alot

A Memory

(Porta San Sebastiano / Porta Appia)

[Photo taken in March 2010]

Kiss me a lot, kiss me a lot
Kiss me all over my face
 Kiss me a lot, kiss me a lot
 Kiss me all over the place
 Kiss me a lot, kiss me a lot
Kiss me all over and then when you've kissed me
Kiss me all over again [Moz]

A Corner of the Venice Lagoon

Venice Lagoon: a quiet spot

(I don't care when or where, I just care that you're there)

 

A white egret was looking at me for a while...

 then he flew away.

 

 

 

Those lilac flowers in the middle of the water are the Limonium Narbonense (a species of sea lavender), and they are quite common in the Venice lagoon.

Photos taken with a Nikon D5100 [Aug 2014]