Rosaria Di Donato was born in Rome, where she currently lives. She holds a degree in Philosophy and teaches in a Classical High School. She has published five poetry collections. She contributes to various cultural magazines, and her works have gained recognition both in Italy and abroad, with critical acclaim from Giorgio Barberi Squarotti, and translations by Paul Courget and Claude Le Roy (featured in the journals “Annales” and “Noreal”). She participates in Abele Longo’s blog “Neobar” and various literary websites. A winner of several poetry awards, she is also interested in art, cinema, and photography.

THE UNIVERSE

the universe plays
with stars planets
black holes
theories struggle
to explain it
but the event horizon
is a distant boundary
unreachable
an immense space
where inside and outside
no longer matter
a stretch of darkness and light
where to lose or find oneself
without patterns

SELF-PORTRAIT

I was born in

a corner of

the sky where

the wind

chases the

clouds
and sweeps

all the

sadness away

BUILDING PEACE

if we had built a world of peace
there would be no injustice
if we had built a world of peace
there would be no persecution
if we had built a world of peace
there would be no war
hatred does not build it only fills the world with rubble
what boundary between life and death what

horizon between earth and sky
what path between war and peace
if in the end it is just a compulsion to repeat time
(Translation by Valeria Girardi)

Prepared Angela Kosta Executive Director of MIRIADE Magazine, Academic, journalist, writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, translator, promoter