From Perugia, Italy – Superb English Haiku by Maria Tosti

Bio

Maria Tosti is an Italian author from Perugia, Italy She writes poems since she was a teenager. She participated at several national and international poetry awards along the years, getting many appreciations.

She likes writing poetry in other languages too, such as English, Spanish and French. She is also passionate about short poems, in the Japanese style, such as haiku, senryu, tanka. One of her haiku was set to music by master Paolo Scatena.

Her literary debut was with the multilingual poetry book “Voci ai confini dell’anima” – “Voices to the Bounderies of the Soul” – published by Thoth Editions/Mario Vallone in the year 2014 both in paper and eBook format. The book includes poems in Italian, English, French and Spanish.

Her artistic works also include visual poems, like haiga and shahai, thanks to her passion for Photography and Drawing. .

Many of her literary and artistic works have appeared in various national and international literary journals, magazines, blogs, websites and anthologies around the world.

She has also written the text of some songs in Italian, looking for a new way of expression and a new artistic technique. Two of her texts have been set to music, one by the Italian composer Pasqualino Moscatelli, and the other by the master Daniel Cianelli.

winter sea –
a bit of poetry
from the running train

sunchoke flowers –
the sun i was looking for
behind gray clouds

3
lip gloss –
that cherry flavour
in the middle of winter

4
dry leaves —
between hisses of wind
the last goodbye

songs of swallows –
i no longer remember
loneliness

end of summer –
the last cricket sings
out-of-tune tunes

barefoot on the grass–
between the thumb and the toes
only a white daisy

leaden day –
in chicory flowers
i find the sky

twenty-one grams
the weight of the soul –
eternal creatures

just water colours –
in the middle of the winter
branches of roses

corymbs of deutzia in bloom –
in the veiled light of the day
my mother still smiles

last day of winter –
just baby blue eyes flowers
in my sweet daydreams

pink cherry blossoms –
in the gentle morning breeze
i too am reborn

along the urban trail
plum blossoms – how to forget
sweetly the sad days

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