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Emanuel
di Pasquale: Sample Poems from 3 Books
From GENISIS | From
The SILVER LAKE POEMS | From ESCAPES THE
NIGHT | From CARTWHEEL TO THE MOON
 Emanuel
di Pasquale has published five books of poems: GENESIS (Boa Editions,
1989), THE SILVER LAKE LOVE POEMS (Bordighera Press, 2000), ESCAPES
THE NIGHT (Gradiva Publications 2001), UN'AMBRA PRIGIONIERA
(bilingual/kursaal-libro Italiano, 2002), and CARTHWEEL TO THE MOON
(Cricket Books, Chicago, 2003). He is currently the poetry editor of
CHELSEA, edited by Alfredo de Palchi. His prolific translations, have
won him a number of prizes, among them The Bordighera Prize, and the
Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from The Academy of American Poets. His
contemporary translation of Dante's VITA NUOVA will be published by
Chelsea Editions: NY. He has edited an anthology: The POETS OF NEW JERSEY
FROM COLONIAL TO CONTEMPORARY with Frank Finale and Sander Zulauf which
will soon be published by Jersey Shore Publications and publisher George
Valente. Born in Italy, he has lived in New Jersey many years.
From GENESIS:
RAIN
Like a drummer's brush,
the rain hushes the surface of tin porches.
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FOR LAURA
Lighter than June winds,
she teaches birds to fly
and sunrays how to skate
on the bark of a birch.
Proud pheasants pirouette for her.
Lakes and streams drink from her eyes.
The skies rush about her.
To touch her hair, air jostles air.
from THE SILVER
LAKE POEMS:
XIV
Walking along
the north star in the dark. Geese gossip. Ice ameboas
across causeway. Deer in vacant lot.
the moon, only half a person,
has fallen on his back.
from ESCAPES
THE NIGHT:
The burden of writing lines
of poetry and not seeing you-
what is ghost:
you and I when we meet
the memories of heat
or these black lines on white paper,
these scribbles of philosophy?
When we become loose water
clouds looking for the overload
we'll live forever
as mist drizzle ice
as vapor as lover's breath.
from CARTWHEEL
TO THE MOON:
(1)
The wind from the northeast
is wild.
The waves are wild.
The sea gulls fly standing still.
(2)
Intermittent
streams,
the leaves
flow
in the current
of the fall winds
that handpick
the crackling
colors
and make
oceans of the skies.
(3)
Why should I complain
of being alone?
A slim, lone sparrow
hops alertly along the shoreline
eating.
Copyright
© 2005 by Emanuel di Pasquale. All rights reserved by the author.
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