CHAPTER 1

    i sat on the sand
    to spend a day
    with you, mother, earth!

    the rocks on the mainland
    guard the ocean
    just a single wave keeps jumping.

    i saw the moonlight
    through my window
    at the break of dawn.

    sunny summer spirit
    slowly sang a song:
    see the sea
    in silence sleep
    see the sea
    in silence sleep
    see the sea
    in silence sleep ...

    the moon was full with whiteness
    the sky so vast and soft
    the stars with glory whispered
    to eyes which wait for love!

    to rush into the windy ocean
    as to close the door of life!

    have you been in a place free of pain?
    ... the purple depth of your soul ...

    the wavy autumn sea
      stole the silence of my days:
    suddenly, a foghorn dived and met a shell.

    deep into the forest
      i smell a maple tree
    soon after the first fall rain ...

    using the "moon-mail"
    i sent my love to you!

    life looks for volunteers
    to live it bravely
    again and again.

    i rushed into the blueberry fields
    and felt the wind
    kissing my cheek!

    a graceful duck slipped down the lake
    and took the golden path ahead
    sending the sun away at dusk ...

    on the rocks in maine
    i left a part of me
    to wait,
    i hope!

    arrival and departure > < destination nowhere
    departure and arrival < > destination anywhere
    i am here—there—somewhere ...

    york land is never silenced
      a miracle!
    invites you to be both happy and sad.

    road runner
    soulless overdrive
    alive for life!

      swimming fast
    to meet the sunrise.
      the night was short,
    like a dream
      hello pain! ...

      was that all?
    a gift from nature
      i am crying!

    far up
      among some silky sheets of clouds
    i am flying to you!

    your soft caress and kiss
    i miss,
    my little baby girl!

    what an eternity!
    under a glorious air—land
    lays the pacific ...

    will you believe that once upon a time
    i lived my life
    my teen and young, but real life!

    i am the last competitor
      against my own fate ...

    water! thirst to be acquainted with
    love and days of solitude

    water! a coolness for the walls
    with pieces of glacier spilling over

    water! behind a dried up sigh
    a covered glass with gulps
    a sense of lakes and birds ...

    the leaves are falling down,
      yet not quick enough
        to cover and to hide
          my summer soul and love.

      fall like fire meets my days,
    the wind runs ahead of me
      i promised!
    i will run with him.

    thousands of grassy islands,

    surrounded with skeletons of fragile, bonnie, grey
    trees ...

    the vistas of the wetlands ... everglades ...

    a bare branch smiles to the shy sun rays
    winter awaits
    me too.

    fall gets almost everywhere
    also in my room,
    soft and shiny, smiley leaves
    fight against the wind ...

    the trees are ready for the last windy dance
    last night the fall like princess
    gave away all her red and yellow dresses.

    life!
      leaping across
        with legs so heavy!

    let's sit together
      on this sunny leafy carpet,
    the wind and i
      two happy dreamers!

    at the dawn of the day
      in a colorless darkness
    my heart is gasping,
    by breath is tired,
      your love
      in doubts still hiding!

      a return to my past
    when fall falls asleep
      in a blanket rich in colors!

    the wind is hissing
    the last fall leaves
    dust out my soul!

    why?
    i kept asking ...
    asking ...

    white silk wraps the town,
    christmas whispers—
    a silver oblivion.

    huddled in silence
    and kept my love for you
    it was cold, i was tired ... lonely ...
    weeping ...

    a timeless winter tale—
    looking at the icy hills
    i inhale deep, then deeper...