The Gripenberg Literature Review

Poems, sketches, and more

A realm for creative and carefree thoughtfulness

The Gripenberg Literature review concerning Isabella Gripenberg’s poems, tales, thoughts, and fictional literary compositions, and handwritings are also part of The Gripenberg Art Collection A Winter Tale from the Amalfi coast Recalling a storm with emerald nuances reverberating from the past. The steep slopes plunge 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. Memories from the seaside 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 my bones and soul leaving a scar of nostalgia in my mind I will never be able to erase from my memory.

“He’s always been since long ago my inspirational source and poetical companion. This is my creative corner, a safe space free from triviality, ugliness, and cynicism; where I shape my poems, limericks, jokes, quotes, aphorisms, and all those things without which life wouldn’t be as colorful and fulfilled with wit and poetry as it is.”

An excerpt from Isabella Diana Gripenberg’s mind and soul

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 plunge 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.

Memories from the seaside

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 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 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.

Memories from Harju and Bertel Gripenberg

Isa Gripenberg describes the memories regarding life in Harju Manor and Bertel Gripenberg’s personality in a Magazine article from the 80s.

The Gripenberg Fine Art Collection Museum is not only an Art Museum

showing masterpiece artworks by Contemporary art Masters, but does also include manuscripts with several pieces of literature, poems, tales, drawings, limericks, memories, and novels.
The Baroness Isabella Diana Gripenberg