Two Poems by Marlene Pasini

Solstice Collapse 

Incessant rain

breaks into places of dark silence,

from the horizon

the light breaks

naked

in the fragility of the dream,

in the ungraspable it drips,

syllables slip into the void

a pregnant collapse

between artifice of shadows,

at the root

faith like a splinter in the heart,

in the painful loneliness

incomprehensible,

immeasurable

flowing

the feared helplessness

eager under the body swaying

the tearing of it,

its exhausting weight

slow sacrifice

the voice trembles

thunder in the distance

deserted summit,

salty smell on hands

tremulous desire

overflows boundaries in the darkness

Echoes and invocations break off.

 

Dusk over the fog

long rain

murmuring her constant prediction,

flooded land

conscience spills dim

in the wind

moon memories flutter

in forgotten paradises

a silent firmament succumbs

and pale fear intercedes

What light will illuminate us before the passing of the shadow?

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Incidence 

Alleys bleed their gray gloom

on roofs that mold.

 

The opacity bursts in,

funereal echo in spaces of worn material.

 

Dog night,

pack in the mouth of the suicide,

shadow of dying bodies

in the fate of abandoning him.

 

How hard it is to live

under the shadow

of this condemned world.

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© Marlene Pasini

Mexico 

emarlene@att.net.mx

Marlene Pasini from Mexico is a communicator, writer, poet, visual artist. Psychotherapist. She has master's degree in literature, diploma in history and Egyptology and hieroglyphics. She is the author of seventeen books. She is Cultural Director of the International Forum Creativity and Humanity, Morocco, Cultural advisor of the T. Fayad, Egypt-Lebanon Cultural Forum and President of the Mexican Academy of Modern Literature, Mexico City. Participation in more than 300 virtual International Art Exhibitions Publication of her literary work in more than 100 cultural Magazines, Anthologies and interviews internationally. Translated into several languages. Permanent columnist in magazines from Mexico and India.

Awards:

Ibero-American Literature Prize by the Liderazgo Hoy A.C. Foundation, Mexico, Recognition of Mexican Letters by the Academy of Literature. First place with Certificate and medal as: International Literary Public Figure at the eleventh Crimean Literary Festival, May 2021 The Palme d'Or, San Remo, Italy, as best artist, June 2022, "Gobe the first", Award as a Woman Leader, Mexico, 2022 First place, foreign category, in the Poetry Competition in memory of the poet Terekhov, Russia, December 2022. First place, International Love Letter Contest, Escribanía Dollz Cultural Center and Library of the Anáhuac University, Mexico City, March, 2023.