This' certificate of participation in the competition "The movements of the soul" in which I participated with 3 works: I write for me, If you want to be my friend and Questions from the heart.
For information on the final night of the event you can read here: PositanoNews .
I was among the few poets present and I know he 'was read by the actor "If you want to be my friend."
The mechanism of the event provided that each author had to vote for the composition that most 'hit him.
The authors do not present, however, had 1 vote for the office. I have received 3 votes.
It 's not the first contest that I attended but' the first who, in addition to the finalists and reported, enabling them to share and warn everyone else.
I wanted to thank Chao pointed me to the contest and the architect Maria Rosaria Manzini, curator of the show, I always answer my dispelling any doubt and in fact, thanking me for my criticism exposed.
Now let the "word" in the evening those who lived it.
"Spring evening a few meters from the sea, among the tourists running, some head to the local Museum of the Journey of Positano.
They are not tourists, but poets, called the event "The motions of the Soul", a 'initiative came in the second edition,
that received attentive, and confirmed an interest, considering the location and population of the country, also quite large.
44 poets present their "motions of the soul", "picture" of their moods or feelings aroused by events or thoughts.
Someone absent, definitely forced, but the yield was almost tangible presence by his words assigned to the reading of a young actor in the company of Murattori.
Souls of all ages: children, adolescents and gentlemen / and elderly and representing a good part of Italy and even some abroad, read with feeling what they put on white sheets.
Two poems read by poets recited by the actors present and one for those who could not be there.
From a spectator, some difficulties to follow the sound of all the readings. It would have been nice to have the texts do not miss words in a poem is never useless or superfluous.
Every six poems, a little musical interlude, so it would reflect in the mind and ordered the hearing.
Long poems and short stories as one of the most diverse topics. It has often been referred to the country, perhaps by those who have departed from it, or his life: the sea, the fishermen, the moon. Many verses dedicated to loved ones, other people who have left their mark on history.
The evening goes quiet, the atmosphere that only the love of culture and sentiment can create.
When all the feelings were expressed, while those present rifocillano a small buffet, poets are occupied by the vote.
Each will have to express three preferences, the present is not graded "office", so as equals.
Even with these poets would not like to judge, but ... it was right that was a conversation between lovers.
A professor Roman, before the awards, talks about the haiku: compliance, explains them, reads a few. Many in the room already knew them, perhaps only someone knew what this synthetic form espessiva Japanese. Premia some haiku of school children who have followed his lessons and, in short, learned to make these little poems.
The poets are careful, it's time to read the chosen ones. Someone with a quiet air was served at the buffet, but many stayed in their seats, apparently including the moment.
Third Place: Clare Baistrocchi, high school in Naples, with a poem inspired by the sea: "Me and the Sea"
Second place: Vincent Russo, the province of Naples, with a long text in dialect dedicated to Karol Woitila: "A vuluntà 'and God, Karol' na
pen 'to my mana. "
Jeanne Winner Speech girl in her early twenties of Positano, with "I ..".
His desire to live intensely, to live well, to be and not to adapt, has gone through the wishes expressed in "I" ...
And 'past the sincerity of hope and the hope of those who (still?) Believes in the commitment to live.
The three finalists in a ceramic dish, all participants, including absent, a certificate of participation.
The evening ends with the audience for the lift home with some nice emotion more to talk about.
For poets and organizers, dinner together, people who were not known in most cases, but that surely will know what to talk and be heard along well together and to share their common passion.
For an appointment in a few months, in a late summer evening, to take in hand the tangible result of this experience: the book that collects all submitted poems and some short notes on the authors.
It will be another special moment of attention to the spirit.
The poets who could not read their own works in April, and will do it at that "movements of the soul," photos of thoughts ", will once again protagonists.
In conclusion, a special evening, before the chaos of tourism and summer activities to rush; an evening of reflection, an evening of culture that can only be good for anyone, including Positano and that will pull it out a few poems from a drawer closed for some time. - Chao "
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