Il Vento E Il Fiume - Estratto / Excerpt - Comments

Oh, good Christians Bravi Christians, give us a bit 'of water. Out of his campaign desperate howling at the moon howled in the shadow of a wing of buzzard Boneless, hanging by a cloud of rags. Very marvelous and wonderful imagery is drawn here which touches mind of reader. Nice sharing.

about that earthquake: It happened at the end of November 1980, and destroyed a large area* in the region Campania (* it stroke in particular 'Irpinia', an area South East of Naples) . There were c.3000 dead. The homeless were c.300,000 people. They were poor people (it was and still is an underdeveloped area) and of all the money spent there, only a fraction went to them.. A great deal (some say half of the total sum spent!) went to the criminal cartels (In Campania there is one of the 3 strong Italian 'mafias': it is called Camorra; the other 2 being the classical/original Mafia -Cosa Nostra-, from Sicilia/Sicily, and Drangheta in Calabria) along with corrupted politicians and civil servants.

''Il Vento E Il Fiume'' - Estratto / ''The Wind And The River'' - Excerpt: in this excerpt, the verses describe a scene from an earthquake happened in Italy (place: 'Irpinia', in region 'Campania' - south of Italy) c.35 years ago. - you can read them in English (Excerpt) at Poem Hunter -