Poem 4 (8.1)

 

Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 8, Number 1. May 2025. ISSN: 2581-7094

 

 The Bombed Generation

--- Ivan Pozzoni

 

Bivouacking among nameless bards, sounding boards transfixed by twinges of toothache,

i summon monsters masked by pain and anguish under bombardment

skilful tightrope walkers on the strings of enchantment, or disenchantment,

intermittent comet stars.

 

Shunning wishes of the Maurizio Costanzo Show,

like eighties vates, we take to the streets to sing,

and to endure charges like animals in battery,

never surrendering to the scheming

created by statesmen alien to all embarrassment.

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Bio:

 Ivan Pozzoni is a poet and author based in Italy. He is the author of several books including Versi Introversi, Mostri, Galata morente, Carmina non dant damen amomg others, and has written 1000 essays and founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme). His poems have been translated into twenty five languages.

 

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