An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) Reflected lights, lights that deceive. Lights that exalt that which is to be shown. Warm lights, golden lights, real lights, and inexistent lights that when turned on illuminate only apparent truths. Lights that reveal a part of you, only a part of you. Will you … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #08
– In the style of The Microscope & The Roller Coaster – Shining in the middle of an abandoned field red poppies relight the sun, for a few instants, in the wind a song of joy. A faraway summer. April 24, 2021 Original photo by: Corina Ardeleanu on Unsplash In the style of #TheMicroscope & #TheRollerCoaster (Some Call … More In one go… #11
An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) Two thin lines dance without stopping, they dance to the rhythm of primordial drums, different theater stages, same Life. [from “Loop #08” – March, 2020 – Original photo: Matt Collamer on Unsplash] “The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – An extension of The Microscope (some call … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #07
An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) If you were a flower, would you ever like to be stepped on? If you were a tree, would you ever like to be cut down? And if you were a dragonfly, would you ever like someone to pull off your wings? (…) [from “Loop #07” … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #06
An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) I let the messy knot of my thoughts undo in the wind, that every fear, uncertainty, might be carried away by it, kidnapped and dissolved in the graceful dance of newborn grass and of vigorous fronds. I let the tepid embrace of spring’s sun surround me … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #05
An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) Only a breath, only a caress. Keep me with you, pretty please. Nothing wrong, my friend, just Love. [from “Loop #03” – Retouched: March 2021. Original text: 2006 – Original photo: Marco Bianchetti on Unsplash] “The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – An extension of The … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #04
Sundown has already been swallowed up by the sea. Slowly sucked in, absorbed. Disappeared. Shiny yellow, vivid oranges, fire engine red, purple and light blue, blue, dark blue, darker still. Black. Night. Dark. The embers pop. The high flame dances and contorts itself. It surprises! Enchants… Reassures. Hypnotizes… Light and shadow. Shadow and light. Hot. … More The Microscope: excerpt #6
An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) A night unable to be comprehended, of being grasped, fully understood, stopped in the immensity of a dream. (…) [from “Loop #02” – Retouched: March 2021. Original text: 2006 – Original photo: Henry Chen on Unsplash] “The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – An extension of … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #03
An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) The slow lifting of the fog, a light breeze moves the tops of the trees resigned to the fall, messily, barely caressing them. The sharp smell of humid earth and of iron, cement, of trains ready to leave for the sea or for delirious cities. The … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #02
An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) (…) Teetering between reason and feelings, tightrope walkers on a thin thread, between dream and reality. (…) incapable of stopping the dancing to the rhythm of one’s own heart. Incapable of stopping the Living. [from “Loop #01” – Retouched: March 2021. Original text: January 2003 – … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – Excerpt #01
Un’estensione di The Microscope (qualcuno le chiama poesie) An extension of The Microscope (some call it poetry) [IT] – SORPRESA! Siete pronti? Preordinate i vostri eBook Kindle ORA! In tutti gli Amazon store. Dopo l’uscita del romanzo Incontrando Laura, a sorpresa arrivò The Microscope. Una raccolta di scatti immortalati con la penna, prima raccolta poetica dell’autrice. … More The Roller Coaster – Up’n’Down! – New book! [It/En]
In the style of The Microscope… waiting for TRC! Stay Tuned! A year in a bubble. Immobile. And yet, all of a sudden, it seemed to us possible to see the sun, even a rainbow, in that bubble. All illuminated, shining, full. It seemed really really beautiful. It seemed. For a bit. And then… back … More In one go… #10
In the style of The Microscope… waiting for TRC! Stay Tuned! Mud drips slowly, it insinuates itself, covers, wraps. It dirties the water as it goes through even the most limpid, the most crystalline. Without pity drowns in this way even that being now destined to disappear. Someone is talking about a summer rain. It … More In one go… #9
About a month after the publication of this collection of poems, here is the complete version of the first interview done by the author and conducted by Marika Mendolia, blogger and book influencer. “…Who is Anna?,” “The title of your work, The Microscope, where does it come from?,” “Why do you call your verses ‘snapshots’?,” “How much of you … More The Microscope & Anna “Annina” Lorenzi – First Author Interview
(…) Loudspeakers let out repeating notes, always the same ones, in a loop. A right hook buries deep into the stomach, Poetry hits you in the face with its entire effect. Hot tears create new pathways, slipping slowly on faces. As happens, rarely, maybe never. And just maybe it’s exactly what was needed. In unison … More The Microscope: excerpt #5
In the style of The Microscope… Rewind. Shhh, don’t say anything, don’t express anything, you can’t. Disappear. And yet, I seem to still hear the sound of your voice, the sound of those words, your words still echoing in my mind. They echo, they worm their way in, they insist. A sweet melody or a … More In one go… #8
[IT] Il momento è giunto, ordinate le vostre copie! [EN] The time has come, order your copies! – Amazon Paperback & eBook. [IT] – The Microscope. Una raccolta di scatti immortalati con la penna. “Dedicato a chi crede nell’Arte, nella vera libertà di espressione, nell’originalità e nell’unicità.” –> Booktrailer, link, anticipazioni, ordini, cover, più info… … More The Microscope. OUT NOW! (It/En)
Waiting for The Microscope… And just like that, now annulled. Oh that your heart become stone and your glance ice. Oh that your soul shut up and your Id disappear. Forever. Like water that flows, let everything simply go. Like an autumn leaf, resign yourself to the wind, alone. Resign yourself to death. Inevitable. And … More In one go… #7
(…) But I’ll turn the sun on if you want to warm yourself, and I’ll uncover the stars if you want to dream. I won’t ask permission, not from the heavens, not from God. Because in all of this, there’s only you and I. (…) I’ll give you time, all that I have. And everything … More The Microscope: preview excerpt #4
Original A19. Anna "Annina" Lorenzi 