Poems, sketches and more
A realm for creative and carefree thoughtfulness
Isabella Gripenberg (Diana)
“He’s always been since long ago my inspirational source and poetical companion. This is my creative corner, safe space free from triviality, ugliness, cynicism; where I shape my poems, limericks, jokes, quotes, aphorism and all those things without which life wouldn’t be as colourful and fulfilled with wit and poetry as it is.”
An excerpt from Isabella Diana Gripenberg’s own mind and soul
Diana aka Artemis the Fertility Goddess Hunter.
Io son Guerriera (I am woman Warrior)
L’Onda – The Wave
A Winter Tale from the Amalfi coast
Recalling a storm with emerald nuances reverberating from the past. The steep slopes plunging into the tormented sea shining in a wider range of green to blue shades. The Amalfi coast in Winter is a dream I won’t ever forget.
The “Sturm und Drang” atmosphere, breathing profoundly into my lungs the intense scent of the salt and seaweed felt like an incommensurable taste of freedom penetrating into my bones and soul leaving a scar of nostalgia in my mind I will never be able to erase from my memory.
ONDE AD AMALFI
Magnifiche – – – terse – – – mugghianti
sublimi, selvagge, pesanti
verdi – – – antiche amanti – – –
eppur nel presente infrante
… gioventu’ che dolora, scintilla –
Tancredi accarezzaste !
Nell’aria freccia brillante :
Tancredi sorride
mi vede
tra onde smeraldo d’Amalfi
Spalle altere
di gioventu’ atarassica
capelli neri
acqua, tragedia classica
I.D.G.G.
Sonetto dedicato a George Guido Lombardi
ODE ALLA BUROCRAZIA E AL DECRETO
Grigiastra come una formazione
di nubi che in alto si estende,
sganciata dalla nostra opinione,
Madame Burocrazia – che pretende
dal popolo fedele devozione –
intorna al Pianeta Terra stende
la sua ragnatela che impone
manovre dalle trappole tremende.
Ma regole, paragrafi e legge
non bastano per tutelar il gregge :
son stati il Decreto e la Scienza
che al politico potente han permesso
di mantenere con magnifico successo
la social distance – dal intelligenza.
I.D.G.G. (Isabella Diana Gripenberg Garff)
Aforisma Quadrifoglio
Paura – Calunnia – Menzogna – Verita’
Four-leaf Clover Aphorism
dedicated to the king of Åland Anders Wiklöf
Fear – Slander – Lie – Truth
FEAR
As rapidly as the wind spreads the dandelion’s seeds all over a grassland, Fear swiftly propagates in wartime paralyzing all those who fall in its claws.
SLANDER
Slander strikes as mercilessly and instantaneously as lightning hits the target, like the peregrine falcon dives on the prey.
LIE
Sleek and confident the lie flies like a Queen driven by the fury of Orlov horses.
TRUTH
Truth keeps walking on its own feet.
RÄDSLAN
(la paura) Med stor hastighet, som när vinden sprider maskrosfrön över ett fält. så sprider sig rädslan i krigstider och förlamar de människor som den får i sitt våld.
FÖRTALET (la calunnia) Motståndslöst, blixtsnabbt, når förtalet sitt mål, dykande som en pilgrimsfalk ner på sitt offer.
SANNINGEN (la Verita’) Sanningen går till fots. I.D.G.G.
