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    Damned times
    Damned times
    Damned times
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    Damned times

    By Franca Colozzo

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    "Really alive in dark times! The innocent word is foolish. A stretched forehead means insensitivity. Whoever laughs, hasn't known the terrible news yet."
    From Bertolt Brecht's lyric (1938): "To those who will come".

    This collection of my poems comes from the tormented period we are experiencing, as spectators or actors of a difficult era, of a period of transition towards new and inscrutable horizons of history, now unknown to us.
    My verses represent a tribute of hope in a better world and the hope that humanity will not sink into a new Middle Ages.
    Considering the brutality of what is happening both in the microcosm of the family and in the macrocosm of society due to terrorist factions, including ISIS, I felt the need to raise my humble voice together with the choral voice of more enlightened contemporary poets.
    Heinous murders, especially against unarmed women and children, perpetrated inside the domestic walls, on one side; massacres and massacres not only at the gates, but also within the heart of the West, on the other hand, tend in a different way to make us withdraw on positions of subordination to brute force and of relegation towards an intolerant barbarism.
    In addition to all this, there are the current problems resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic that is bringing the whole world to its knees.
    Hence the name "Damned Times" which distinguishes this simple collection of verses.
    Therefore, forgive me some blunder or redundancy of style, the metric or the lack of metric that the different emotional situations have aroused in me according to the various circumstances.
    I had the audacity to translate some poems of mine into English. Forgive me for any mistakes, since - although I use English as my custom and ambition - I cannot consider myself a perfect connoisseur of this idiom.
    In addition to the topical poems, I added others of love or aimed at contemplating nature and, in particular, the sea. Precisely from this latter element, which characterizes my historical town Gaeta (Lazio region) stretching out over the Tyrrhenian Sea, I have drawn the poetic and descriptive force of situations and alternating seasons.

    Dr. Arch. FRANCA COLOZZO  ̶  an Italian Architect/writer/novelist, poet, educationist, retired teacher of “Drawing and History of Art” in Italy and Istanbul (Turkey) on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs  ̶  has been nominated in March 2018 Global Goodwill Ambassador (GGA Director~ITALY) by the influencer Richard DiPilla (Virginia – USA) and, in March 2019,  INSPAD ~Ambassador of Peace & CEO of IHC~Intenational Harmony Council by Dr. Muhammad Tahir Tabassum, President of INSPAD ~ Institute of Peace and Development, in Islamabad (Pakistan),  a NGO incorporated with the UN with special observer status & Think Tank based in Islamabad (Pakistan) and Belgium. During the seven years spent abroad, thanks to her multi-ethnic and multi-cultural experience, she organized exhibitions of Art at the Italian High School I.M.I., the Italian Institute of Culture and the most prestigious universities in Istanbul (Turkey). Multi-tasked, creative and enthusiastic with strong belief in organizational innovation, she is an excellent team worker even in a multicultural context. Passionate about justice, attentive to the rights of the weakest social classes and the importance of the education of women and children, her current focus is in writing novels, poems, essays, articles on different newspapers and blogs about Human Rights, Kashmir, Peace, environmental problems, refugees, women’s empowerment, education and health related programs, etc.  
    She is at present very active on social media to promote peace through articles, comments, publications also on ACADEMIA.edu.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPasserino
    Release dateAug 5, 2020
    ISBN9788835873945
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      Damned times

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      Table of contents

      I embrace the sun

      Mall show

      Covid-19 #March, 8

      The seagulls of Instanbul

      Love Obsession

      Late-night lovers

      October 15, 2019

      The colour of the soul

      Tsunami

      Remembering MARINELLA #Foibe_

      02 02, 2020

      The coming year

      I do not love of Christmas

      Scraps of November

      Holocaust

      Mare Nostrum

      Epic of Israel

      In memory of GLORIA

      Torcello

      Sun pool

      Alice and the carob tree

      The blond ghost

      Hermit

      September 23, 2019

      POEMS ON KASHMIR

      Sad destiny

      I dream of Kashmir ...

      Fleeing from thoughts

      Sound of SILENUS

      Mute Poetry on Jerusalem Delivered

      Ventotene Manifesto

      In memory of my mother

      The faces of violence

      Notre-Dame of the innocents

      Get lost to find yourself

      Flashes of life

      Spring waves

      Proserpina

      Woman's day

      Drops of springs

      The shell of time

      Deaf winter

      Land and sea

      Child brides

      Thinking of my father... DAY OF MEMORY

      Death merchants

      Youth lover

      Cavity mind

      Hanging to the wire of summer

      In the dark forest

      Announced hurricane

      Lacrymarum sĭtŭla

      Insomnia

      Ante omnia

      September memories

      Air bubble

      Fiumata

      Nighttime dyng

      BACK TO MY SHORES #CherchezLaFemme

      In the name of the rose

      Symbiosis in blue

      Aquarius - migrants clouds

      Ghost

      What do you know?

      Kissed horizon

      Sunny mind

      Tango of youth

      Tired meridians

      Lost path

      Ronce antique

      Burkini or bikini

      The well of the devil

      Arab spring

      The sound of freedom

      Friday, November 13

      The noise of the stars

      Innocent eyes

      I love so deeply

      Modern Ulysses

      I love you

      Boats with refugees

      #Syria. The blue girl

      Justice for GIULIO REGENI

      LETTER TO GIULIO REGENI

      Aleppo, Aleppo...

      Marching

      Runaway

      Really alive in dark times! The innocent word is foolish. A stretched forehead means insensitivity. Whoever laughs, hasn't known the terrible news yet.

      From Bertolt Brecht's lyric (1938): " To those who will come".

      This collection of my poems comes from the tormented period we are experiencing, as spectators or actors of a difficult era, of a period of transition towards new and inscrutable horizons of history, now unknown to us.

      My verses represent a tribute of hope in a better world and the hope that humanity will not sink into a new Middle Ages.

      Considering the brutality of what is happening both in the microcosm of the family and in the macrocosm of society due to terrorist factions, including ISIS, I felt the need to raise my humble voice together with the choral voice of more enlightened contemporary poets.

      Heinous murders, especially against unarmed women and children, perpetrated inside the domestic walls, on one side; massacres and massacres not only at the gates, but also within the heart of the West, on the other hand, tend in a different way to make us withdraw on positions of subordination to brute force and of relegation towards an intolerant barbarism.

      In addition to all this, there are the current problems resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic that is bringing

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