mercoledì 19 ottobre 2016

Mi piace... Vella Arena



Mi piace...
che la mia mano ancora trema
quando ti scrivo
Mi piace
perché so che ho ancora emozioni
e sono viva…

Mi piace...
abbandonarmi al pensiero delle tue parole
che mi fanno ancora sognare
Mi piace
rovistarmi alla mente
per rivivere l’istante di secolo
che mi hai baciato…
Mi piace..
il tuo sorriso appeso al chiodo del ricordo.
Averti amato e vissuto.
Mi piace…
 

Happiness - Selim Boumerdas



Happiness.
I do not ask the moon
I do not ask the stars
Neither alms nor charity
Neither small nor large bear
Just the evening star
To guide me in my quest
Happiness
To find my way on this earth
For I am the crossroads
I want neither, gold nor jewels
Or sapphire or jade
Neither nor emerald crown
But just a little human warmth
An ounce
A glow
A shooting star
A ladybug wills my happiness
Even live on love and fresh water
For the rest of my life
As long as I am with my beloved
In harmony and with myself symbiosis
And with the beast that dozes in me
Not to mention Mother Nature.

Copyright B.Slim39 10/18/2016

БОЛ - Borisav Blagojevic




БОЛ
Раздојиле се руке
Ореол кише даје ветру снаге
Лудује ветар а у души муке
И ова река што некуд одлази
И ова песма са капима суза
Капље у срцу и још већа бол

У недогледу магле сиве
На промаји ветар пролази телом
Дани заборављени више не живе
И ово октобарско вече што никуд не жури
И ова пуста тишина што не отиче
Капље у срцу и још већа бол
Прокисло је вече
Звезде и месец тугују у мраку
Растанак је болан и суза тече
И ова тишина пуста ћутљива и нема
И ово тапкање кише по пољима
Капље у срцу и још већа бол
БАН МОРАВСКИ.

Messiah - Uzo Nwamara




Messiah

my blind eyes
rove searching
for you
i am your
dog sniffing
every wind
for a whiff
of you
daily like the
dewy dawn
i see
you come
and go
wet with
promises
coming and going
leaving me dry
the death of
the eyes is
not a great
tragedy
the death of
the soul is
i see you
at every touch
of dawn peeping
at what you
have left of
my heart
dearest i am
still here blinded
by love
chained in
this cave
by feelings
for you
a slave
to your
charm
bound at
the feet
of your
rejection
i am here
with nose in
the air
and ears to
the ground
grabbing every
scratch of
your coming
or going
here i am
still your
blind bartimaeus
waiting for
my messiah
© uzo nwamara
19/10/16.

Sermons -The light of all the truth- Munir Mezyed



Sermons -The light of all the truth- Munir Mezyed
whoever is enemy unto my freedom; indeed, he is a conspicuous enemy unto his own self. In the Arab world, the free intellectual has to choose one of the three places to be: exile or tomb or jail. Therefore, I chose to be free bird, not belonging unto a particular race, ethnic or national group, singing on the branches of eternity. Indeed, the hardest thing for a human being to do is to be completely free from all the conventional truths that have been entrenched in his heart and mind. I consider myself extremely blessed and lucky to be able to attain Perfect Freedom by discovering my true nature, and that I am a mirror for those who seek to see God. This discovery has led me into all the truth and allowed my thirsty soul for salvation to drink the water of divinity from the fountain of creativity. As a writer or an artist or a philosopher, simply, you cannot be a real creative while you are chained by the habit of accepting inherited beliefs, nor can you attain divine inspiration unless you realize your true nature.
I come to know that other than God and I, nothing exists in that indiscernible light. Thus whatever is indiscernible can only be perceived by obtaining Perfect Freedom. However, I wonder if those iniquitous, who are grossly unfair and morally wrong, being involved in doing all sorts of corruption, will ever come to their senses and become aware of the outcome of their evil behaviors. Sadly, these iniquitous have been detached from their true nature.
Sermons for those who are thirsty for divine Knowledge:
• The shortest way that leads you directly unto God is love…
• God does want you to be afraid of Him but to trust Him and show your love…
• God would never ask you to believe in what contradicts with your own reason and your own common sense. Simply, He expects from you to be mindful of your duty toward yourself first, then toward the others, and then toward everything that surrounds you.
• Love is the positive energy, and the divine power that is capable of reuniting the human family, helping man to get rid of his devilish instincts towards power, influence and social control, getting him out of the illusion of the material world to the absolute idealism where tranquility and inner peace.
• You will never be free till you free yourself from your own conventional wisdom.
• God doesn’t live in temples or churches or mosques but in the deeds of those who seek to promote the welfare of others.
• To be free means to get rid of your fear and your superstitious thinking.Thus you will be touched by the hand of the sacred power that heals your soul and makes your mind and heart ready to receive the divine revelation, the true and real love....
• No salvation for humanity from pain and sorrows, suffering and torment till man returns unto activating the moral and spiritual values…
The rest of the sermons:
Pearls of the golden soul
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D7FYEHY
All rights reserved, © Munir Mezyed. Copying without permission for non-personal use is forbidden.

Author Richard Doiron


About The Author Richard Doiron
by RD

Richard Doiron was first published in 1964. He has published 18 books to date. A graduate in journalism, his work has been read at the United Nations University for Peace; at the World Congress of Poetry & Cultures; he has read at national and international literary festivals. He has twice participated in written forums alongside the Dalai Lama by invitation.

Prolific hardly describes him, as he produces an estimated 1,000 new poems yearly. His sonnets alone now number over 5500. He considers himself a channel, poetry as much a mystery to him today as it was fifty years ago. Of French-Acadian extraction, most of his work is done in English, a language he has mastered with relative ease.

One of the highlights of his life was meeting Doc PenPen and sharing many experiences with him. As he sees it, some people are imbued with genius and charisma, and in that regard, Doc PenPen is at the top of that list.

Books Published by Richard Doiron
Love - 1979, Branstead Press, Carlisle, Ontario;
Child of the Universe - 1991, The Ploughman Publishing Company, Whitby, Onatario;
Tomorrow's World - 1999, Dream Catcher Publishing, Saint John, New Brunswick;
My Prayer for Peace - 2002, Dream Catcher Publishing, Saint John, New Brunswick.
 

martedì 18 ottobre 2016

WRITING IS PASSION - Ashok Kumar





WRITING IS PASSION

 

Ashok Kumar Verma
Writing is blessing
of God
believe it or not
peace is its food
love is its root

imagination is
required
fact and fiction
is its manure
devices are its
ornaments
octave and sestet
are its flowers
Mind and soul
gives birth
intellectual and
intelligence
nurture it
people give it
different
names poetry
gazal and song
(18-10-2016) INDIA
©®
ashokkumar160777@gmail.com
ashokkumar16777@gmail.com

Meet the Author: Naomi Shihab Nye clock Giovedì 17 novembre dalle ore 18:30 alle ore 20:00 Kalamazoo Public Library

Join us and the Kalamazoo Public Library in welcoming incredible author, poet and advocate Naomi Shihab Nye to Kalamazoo for a special evening presentation and conversation about her work. Book sale and signing will follow presentation.

Naomi Shihab Nye gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. About her work, the poet William Stafford has said, “her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life.”

Nye’s honors include awards from the International Poetry Forum and the Texas Institute of Letters, the Carity Randall Prize, and four Pushcart Prizes. She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. In 1988, she received The Academy of American Poets’ Lavan Award, selected by W. S. Merwin. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2009. Her collection of poems for young adults entitled Honeybee won the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children’s/Young Adult category. Her novel for children, The Turtle of Oman, was chosen both a Best Book of 2014 by The Horn Book and a 2015 Notable Children’s Book by the American Library Association. The Turtle of Oman was also awarded the 2015 Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature.



GENTILEZZA
Prima di sapere che cosa sia veramente la gentilezza
devi perdere delle cose,
devi sentire il futuro dissolversi in un momento
come il sale in un brodo leggero.
Ciò che tenevi nella mano,
quello che avevi contato e conservato con tanta cura,
tutto questo deve andarsene così saprai
quanto possa essere desolato il paesaggio
fra le regioni della gentilezza.
Come tu vai avanti a viaggiare,
pensando che l'autobus non si fermerà mai,
così i passeggeri che mangiano pollo e mais,
continueranno a guardar fuori dai finestrini per sempre.
Prima di imparare la dolce gravità della gentilezza,
devi viaggiare fin dove l'Indiano, nel suo poncho bianco,
giace morto sul ciglio della strada.
Devi capire che potresti essere tu quell'uomo
e che anche lui era qualcuno
che viaggiava nella notte con dei progetti
e con il semplice respiro che lo teneva in vita.
Prima che tu riconosca la gentilezza come la tua cosa più profonda,
devi riconoscere il dolore come l'altra cosa più profonda.
Devi svegliarti con il dolore.
Devi parlare al dolore finché la tua voce
non avrà afferrato il filo di tutte le sofferenze
e avrai dunque visto l'intero tessuto.
Allora sarà solo la gentilezza ad avere senso,
solo la gentilezza che ti allaccia le scarpe
e che ti fa uscire incontro al giorno
ad imbucare lettere o comprare il pane,
solo la gentilezza che alza la testa
in mezzo alla folla del mondo per dire
è me che hai continuato a cercato,
e che poi ti accompagna ovunque
come un ombra o un amico.

Naomi Shihab Nye

lunedì 17 ottobre 2016

Why Donald Trump Has Already Lost

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands with Women for Trump as he speaks to supporters at a rally on October 14, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Recent polls show the nominee has low support from the gender.

Jay Newton-Small 
 

His support amongst white women is cratering

When Kellyanne Conway took the reins of Donald Trump’s campaign in mid-August, she looked around at how to expand his voting base. Minorities looked unlikely to vote for Trump, and he already had white men. The best group to target, she found, was white women.
Conway, who wrote a book, What Women Really Want, with Democratic pollster Celinda Lake in 2005, was the ideal person to achieve that: She has long focused on turning out the women’s vote for GOP candidates. So she set about to make Trump more appealing to women. She had him introduce a paid family medical leave initiative with his daughter. To mitigate the perception of racism, she had him campaign with African-American pastors in Detroit. She also was just about the only staffer who managed to tamp down Trump’s baser instincts and keep him on message—at least for a while.
The strategy seemed to be working. By mid-September, Trump and rival Hillary Clinton were nearly tied, according to an average of national polls by RealClearPolitics. Then came the first presidential debate and Trump’s Miss Universe meltdown, followed by the release of a tape where Trump bragged about how his fame enabled him to grab women by the genitals with impunity. And to cap off Trump’s dismal month with women, this week a flood of women have come forth to say that Trump sexually assaulted them. All of which blew Conway’s careful strategy to appeal to white women voters to hell.
Recent polls show women moving away from Trump post haste. A PRRI/The Atlantic poll released October 11 showed Clinton leading Trump amongst women 61 percent to 28 percent, a five-point drop for Trump’s support amongst women from a similar poll done just one week earlier. A CBS News poll of battleground states out October 16 found Clinton’s support amongst women up six percentage points to 51 percent from last month, while Trump was down four percentage points to 36 percent. And Quinnipiac survey taken October 5-6 found Trump’s support steadier amongst women—36 percent, the same as in a similar poll from September. But saw a surge for Clinton, whose support amongst women in the same period rose from 54 percent to 58 percent.
If only women voted in this election, Clinton would win 458 electoral votes to Trump’s 80, according to modeling done by FiveThirtyEight.
The most striking swing has been amongst white non-college-educated women, usually one of the most reliably Republican of voting groups. In the last three elections, Republicans have won these women by margins of 19 points in 2004, 17 points in 2008 and 20 points in 2012. And yet, the PRRI/The Atlantic poll found them split evenly for Clinton and Trump, 40 percent to 40 percent.
That one demographic all but dooms Trump’s already maimed campaign. Women have swung every election since Ronald Reagan. Republicans have only won the White House in the last 20 years by driving out the male vote—which Trump is doing—and mitigating the loss of women to less than ten percentage points. This is where Trump is failing: He’s losing women overall by 15 percentage points, according to an average of polls by FiveThirtyEight.
Indeed, things are so bad, Trump himself acknowledged the problem in a tweet on Sunday:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Polls close, but can you believe I lost large numbers of women voters based on made up events THAT NEVER HAPPENED. Media rigging election!

Trump is unlikely to make up those votes amongst minorities and it’s hard to imagine him turning out white men in even greater numbers without also driving higher minority turnout for Clinton, which would offset those gains. His one shot to win the White House rested on convincing women voters to vote for him. Turns out, even when you’re famous like Trump, there are some things women won’t tolerate from you.

“Il giorno dopo” – Andrea Iacomini



“Il giorno dopo”, edito da Ponte Sisto è ad un tempo romanzo di formazione e appassionata e dolente denuncia dei disastri causati dai conflitti contemporanei, che l’autore, portavoce italiano dell’Unicef, tocca con mano ad ogni visita nei campi profughi del Medio Oriente e dell’Africa.
Un libro che Iacomini abbina ad uno spettacolo teatrale, ai numerosi dibattiti soprattutto nelle scuole di tutt’Italia.
Figlio di un padre appassionato, che lo ha contagiato con i suoi ideali sin da quando era bambino, Enrico entra in politica e inizia così una militanza durata quindici anni, un percorso denso di incontri, confronti, grandi slanci e bocconi amari, fino a un crudele verdetto finale. Con toni sempre sinceri e ironici, Enrico ci racconta la nuova missione che lo aspetta dopo la politica, quella umanitaria. Inizia a viaggiare per il mondo, diventa testimone della fame, delle guerre e della povertà, lotta attraverso la scrittura per denunciarle al mondo occidentale. La visita al campo profughi di Zaatari e l’incontro fatale con una donna siriana, gli disvelano una verità ancora più grande. Deve compiere un ultimo cammino, quello dentro se stesso, oltre gli attacchi d’ansia, oltre le scuse e le bugie. Ad accompagnarlo, la consapevolezza che “non c’è più tempo per mentire, ma solo per iniziare una nuova vita. A partire da oggi, dal giorno dopo”.


“In Italia tra il 2015/2016 ne sono arrivati 18.000, di 6.000 si sono perse le tracce, 2.000 di questi sono vittime dello sfruttamento minorile, 700 sono morti in mare. Nel mondo ci sono 250 milioni di bambini che vivono in zone di conflitto, 87 milioni hanno meno di sette anni. La guerra in Siria in cinque anni ha provocato 5,5 milioni rifugiati, la metà sono bambini, nelle 20 città sotto assedio, senza cibo e acqua, i bambini intrappolati sono quasi quattro milioni.” Andrea Iacomini


Andrea Iacomini portavoce italiano Unicef

Andrea Iacomini, portavoce di UNICEF Italia @UNICEF/Pacifico
Andrea Iacomini, giornalista, è il  portavoce dell’UNICEF Italia, nasce a Roma l’11 gennaio 1974. Studia al Liceo-ginnasio statale “Giulio Cesare” di Roma, impegnandosi sin da giovanissimo nel mondo dell’associazionismo politico, scoutistico e sociale. Laureato in Scienze Politiche con indirizzo internazionale e comunitario presso l’Università LUISS “Guido Carli” di Roma, si occupa di tematiche relative all’Europa e alla cooperazione internazionale, lavorando dapprima come esperto di Fondi strutturali europei e successivamente quale responsabile stampa dell’OICS – Agenzia delle Regioni per la Cooperazione Internazionale. Diplomatosi presso la Scuola di giornalismo dell’Università “Tor Vergata” a Roma, giornalista professionista, nel 2006 diventa portavoce dell’Assessorato alle Politiche per l’infanzia e la famiglia del Comune di Roma. Nel 2008 approda all’UNICEF Italia con il ruolo di Capo Ufficio Stampa e poi (2012) di Portavoce nazionale, incarico che ricopre tutt’oggi. Blogger e scrittore, cura uno spazio di approfondimento su Huffington Post Italia ed è autore di numerosi editoriali e articoli su tematiche legate all’attualità e alla politica estera su numerose riviste e sui maggiori quotidiani nazionali. Negli ultimi tempi ha condotto un’intensa attività sui media (interviste, articoli, approfondimenti sulle principali testate tv, radio, giornali, web) contro l’eccidio di bambini in Siria, in Iraq e Gaza, temi che tutt’oggi lo vedono in prima linea con iniziative, missioni sul campo e mobilitazioni. Altre tematiche di speciale impegno sono state le campagne UNICEF per il contrasto alla malnutrizione infantile nel Sahel (#SahelNow), la campagna contro la mortalità infantile “Vogliamo Zero”, quella sulla siccità e la conseguente crisi alimentare nel Corno d’Africa e la campagna per la riforma della legge sulla cittadinanza e il diritto alla non discriminazione per i minori di origine straniera “IO come TU”. Ha tenuto lezioni e seminari su tematiche relative ai diritti dell’infanzia, allo sviluppo e alle emergenze umanitarie presso le Università di Firenze, Milano (Cattolica e Statale), Catania, Roma (La Sapienza, LUISS e Roma Tre), Teramo, Foggia, Bari, Benevento, Torino. È Direttore responsabile della rivista per i sostenitori dell’UNICEF Italia “Dalla parte dei bambini”. Nel 2007 ha pubblicato il libro “Buona strada”. Con l’UNICEF ha compiuto missioni sul campo in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Libano, Siria, Giordania, Iraq. A maggio 2014 è stato ospite d’onore del Premio Luchetta-Hrovatin quale riconoscimento della sua intensa attività per i bambini siriani. Nel settembre 2014 è stato insignito dalla Fondazione “Riccardo Tanturri” del “Premio Scanno” per la categoria “Valori”. Nel 2014 e nei primi mesi del 2015 ha girato scuole, università, piazze, eventi con il monologo “In viaggio”, un racconto esperienziale attraverso immagini, racconti, video e storie dal campo, che ha toccato oltre 80 città.