BAD HABIT   Every day I go to work for my wife, Olga, so that she has enough money for shopping. I must make an effort. The weekend

Dear friends, dear readers, I just returned from Japan, invited at the celebration of the 5th Anniversary of the Japan Universal Poets Association who organized several poetry recitals

You know You know you said never, I never was so happy as that night. Never!  And you said it to me, too, at the same moment I

The painting Constance picked up the brushes. On the cover of the sketchbook some fruits and vegetables. Constanza painted the cherries green and the bananas blue She gave

Trust me with your joy so that I may be its guardian They exist orbiting planets that hear prayers and turn them into stardust And when in the

TENDER CHARACTERS For Saint Valentine’s Day Completed the invisible page of memory secret writing which nobody else knows how to decipher rewritten again and again in the soft

JUNPA 5 th Anniversary Commemorative Belgium: Germain Droogenbroodt France: Hughes Labrusse Ireland: Gabriel Rosenstock Italy: Dante Maffia, Laura Garavalia Japan: Takashi Arima, Taeko Uemura, Mariko Sumikura, Tatsuo Murata;

Fervent are the desires when they navigate towards love. But not all of them arrive at the pier where caresses are waiting for them. Every evening there are

    Loneliness a lake with dead waters curled up and roared away. You are the rock that with a dull echo falls; but because I love you

Sometimes I have hunger for nothing more than a kind word– a word against the cold, against the fear, a single word to warm me to breathe, a