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    Scattering Dreams & Tales
    Scattering Dreams & Tales
    Scattering Dreams & Tales
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    Scattering Dreams & Tales

    By Fabrizio Frosini, Daniel Brick, Leah Ayliffe and

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    This latest collection of poems, our third, can be considered a grace note attached to the full melody to the first two.
    The title, "Scattering Dreams and Tales," was written to reflect the other two publications. According to my co-editor, Fabrizio Frosini, "Dreams & Tales" recalls 'Nine Tales of Creation'. "Scattering" evokes 'At the Crossing of Seven Winds".
    In this Anthology, you will find poems by 13 poets.
    According to the Random House Dictionary, a POET is a person who has the gift of poetic thought, imagination and creation.
    Let us see how we can amplify this definition with statements made by poets and prose writers.
    One of the earliest definitions still current is by the ancient Roman poet, HORACE, one of the masters of Lyric Poetry in Western literature.
    He wrote Poets were the first teachers of mankind. The poet-teacher would inculcate the highest human values along with whatever information would be deemed necessary.
    Who are the hyphenated teachers in today's world? Perhaps technocrat-teachers, dogmatist-teachers, militarist-teachers, businessman-teachers. Would there be room for Horace's confidence in Lyric Poetry?
    The early 20th century poet James Flecker made a very precise distinction in what we can expect poets to accomplish through language, mere words raised to heightened, even electric power: "The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving."
    Perhaps several poems in our anthology will perform this redemptive role, if the poets have fulfilled their mission and readers read with lively attention.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFabrizio Frosini
    Release dateJun 1, 2015
    ISBN9781310192128
    Scattering Dreams & Tales
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    Fabrizio Frosini

    Born in Tuscany, Italy. Currently living close to Florence and Vinci, Leonardo's hometown. Doctor in Medicine, specialized in Neurosurgery, with an ancient passion for Poetry, he is the Author of over 2,000 poems published in 20 personal books. Frosini writes in Italian, his native language, and English. He is the founder of the International Association "Poets Unite Worldwide," with which he has published more than 50 Anthologies. Among his own books: «The Chinese Gardens - English Poems», «Prelude to the Night», «Anita Quiclotzl & Her Souls - Anita Quiclotzl e le Sue Anime» (Bilingual Ed.) - [for the others, see below].~*~In Frosini's Poetry:1. The Truth is Affirmed ; 2. Beauty is Conveyed ; 3. The Personal becomes the Universal.One of the key terms in contemporary poetry is 'POETRY OF WITNESS'. "Florence, A Walk With A View" is an excellent example of this type of poem. It exchanges the anger we experienced in the preceding poem with melancholy, but this is a haunted and desperate melancholy, not at all like the word's root meaning of sweet sorrow. Yet, in Fabrizio Frosini's poem, the city charms the visitor with its natural beauty - "the silky lights of the / Sunset" - and artistic ambiance - "the intimate warmth of nostalgia that makes / Your heart melt at the sight around".In the finest poetry, beauty is conveyed in all of it sensuous and spiritual glory. The title "Water Music" refers to one of Handel's most popular works, a masterpiece of baroque melody, rhythm and harmony. The poem, however, is not about this music.. here is a shining element of the beauty this poem conveys - "I was in my room, staring at the clear sky through the window. The moon, so pale and magical, drawing my imagination to her. In my ears Handel's music was playing softly." - There is the beauty of VITA NOVA, in this Frosini's poem: Dante's idealization of Beatrice with its artistic and moral benefits experienced by a contemporary couple. And finally the beauty of sublimation, when an otherwise sensuous experience must be transferred to the plane of the Imagination. Other Frosini's poem, like "Nocturnal Snowing", are Poems of Memory, that reveal the persistence of an experience of mutual attraction in the poet's life over many decades. There, a young woman, who is forever young and lovely in the poet's mind, becomes a touchstone of emotional value. But not all good experiences are given a future by the hand of fate. And so Frosini's poetry also explores the emotional consequences of the loss of such a promising moment... The prevailing reaction in reader after reader is that Frosini's verses relate to their emotional lives. In other words, Fabrizio Frosini's personal experience reflects their personal experience, and thus the Personal becomes the Universal...~*~Books published as sole Author:(*BE*: Bilingual Editions, English–Italian ; All books have PAPERBACK and EBOOK Editions)– «The Chinese Gardens – English Poems» – English Ed. – (published also in Italian Ed.:– «I Giardini Cinesi» – Edizione Italiana);– «KARUMI – Haiku & Tanka» – Italian Ed.;– «Allo Specchio di Me Stesso» ('In the Mirror of Myself') – Italian Ed.;– «Il Vento e il Fiume» ('The Wind and the River') – Italian Ed.;– «A Chisciotte» ('To Quixote') – Italian Ed.;– «Il Puro, l'Impuro – Kosher/Treyf» ('The pure, the Impure – Kosher / Treyf') – Italian Ed.;– «Frammenti di Memoria – Carmina et Fragmenta» ('Fragments of Memories') – Italian Ed.;– «La Città dei Vivi e dei Morti» ('The City of the Living and the Dead') – Italian Ed.;– «Nella luce confusa del crepuscolo» ('In the fuzzy light of the Twilight') – Italian Ed.;– «Limes —O La Chiave Dei Sogni» ('The Key to Dreams') – Italian Ed.;– «Echi e Rompicapi» ('Puzzles & Echoes') – Italian Ed.;– «Ballate e Altre Cadenze» ('Ballads and Other Cadences') – Italian Ed.;– «Selected Poems – Επιλεγμένα Ποιήματα – Poesie Scelte» – Greek–English–Italian (Αγγλικά, Ελληνικά, Ιταλικά – Greek translation by Dimitrios Galanis);– «Prelude to the Night – English Poems» – English Ed. (published also in Italian Ed.:– «Preludio alla Notte» – Edizione Italiana);– «A Season for Everyone – Tanka Poetry» – English Ed.;– «Evanescence of the Floating World – Haiku» – English Ed.;– «From the Book of Limbo – Dal Libro del Limbo» – *BE*;– «Anita Quiclotzl & Her Souls – Anita Quiclotzl e le Sue Anime» – *BE*.~*~Forthcoming publications:– «Mirror Games — A Tale» – English Edition (also in Italian Ed.:– «Giochi di Specchi — Un Racconto»);– «Il Sentiero della Luna» ('The Moon's Path') – Italian Edition.~*~For the Anthologies published by Fabrizio Frosini with "Poets Unite Worldwide", see Frosini's profile as a PUBLISHER, or POETS UNITE WORLDWIDE's profile.~*~Some of Frosini's poems are also published in the Anthology "Riflessi 62" (Italian Edition), edited by Pagine Srl.~*~Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/poetsuniteworldwide/Website address:https://poetsuniteworldwide.org/Blog:https://poetsuniteworldwide.wordpress.com/Twitter username:@fabriziofrosini

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      Scattering Dreams & Tales - Fabrizio Frosini

      Table of Contents

      Opening note by Fabrizio Frosini

      Introduction by Daniel J. Brick

      Poems by Fabrizio Frosini

      Poems by Daniel J. Brick

      Poems by Leah Ayliffe

      Poems by Lawrence Beck

      Poems by Dilantha Gunawardana

      Poems by Simone Inez Harriman

      Poems by Diane Hine

      Poems by Galina Italyanskaya

      Poems by Mallika Menon

      Poems by Miriam Maia Padua

      Poems by Mihaela Pirjol

      Poems by Abby Sze

      Poems by Niken Kusuma Wardani

      About the Authors

      Connect with the Authors

      ~*~

      Opening note

      This Anthology of Poetry, the third after "At The Crossing Of Seven Winds and Nine Tales Of Creation", is published with the participation of poets from different parts of the world: 13 poets from 12 countries. A good deal of the poems collected here are new ones; others have been published already.

      The title I have chosen for this third book wants to offer a link to the titles of the first two anthologies: "dreams & tales of creation scattered by the winds of poetry".

      Enjoy the reading.

      Fabrizio Frosini (Firenze, 2015)

      ~*~

      Aus der Hand frißt der Herbst mir sein Blatt: wir sind Freunde.

      Wir schälen die Zeit aus den Nüssen und lehren sie gehn:

      die Zeit kehrt zurück in die Schale.

      Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.

      From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:

      then time returns to the shell.

      Paul Celan, "Corona"

      ~*~

      Foreword

      by Daniel J. Brick

      This latest collection of poems, our third, can be considered a grace note attached to the full melody to the first two. The title, "Scattering Dreams & Tales," was written to reflect the other two publications. According to my co-editor, Fabrizio Frosini, Dreams and Tales recalls Nine Tales of Creation. Scattering evokes At the Crossing of Seven Winds.

      I have freely and proudly used the term P-O-E-T to describe us in the first two Introductions. So I think we should consider the multiples meanings of this key word being bandied around. According to the Random House Dictionary, a poet is a person who has the gift of poetic thought, imagination and creation, and in addition poetic creation over time. Let us see how we can amplify this definition with statements made by poets and prose writers. One of the earliest definitions still current is by the ancient Roman poet, Horace, one of the masters of Lyric Poetry in Western literature. He wrote poets were the first teachers of mankind. Horace does have a reputation for being the author of didactic verse that illustrates a noble and virtuous lifestyle, and he would certainly want his poet-teacher to infuse a love of poetry and truth in his students. And also the poet-teacher would inculcate the highest human values along with whatever information would be deemed necessary. Who are the hyphenated teachers in today's world? Perhaps technocrat-teachers, dogmatist-teachers, militarist-teachers, businessman-teachers. Would there be room for Horace's confidence in Lyric Poetry?

      In Plato's Symposium, the comic playwright Aristophanes tells a mythic story about our human origins in which he declares every man is a poet when he is in love. Aristophanes tells us originally humans were androgynous beings whose happiness made the gods jealous, so they separated us, and ever since the two halves have sought wholeness and happiness through sexual love. And it is this pursuit of our missing half which inspires poetry, so Plato links the erotic and the poetic.

      Taking a leap forward. Percy Bysshe Shelley gave poets a political as well as literary dimension by declaring, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Notice he avoided reference to executive functions of government which are coercive and accompanied by force. Legislators are a deliberative body which use words and arguments to persuade others of their view, which is exactly the nature and process of poets. If this seems hopelessly idealistic to you, I would remind you of a beloved and heroic senator from my state, Minnesota, Eugene McCarthy. In challenging the Vietnam War in 1968, he rallied opposition, eventually creating a lasting Peace Movement in American politics. A few years before his death, I attended one of his poetry readings. Long retired from the political arena, he was thoroughly happy to share his wit and wisdom in his fine, formal poems. His life proved Shelley was absolutely on target.

      And no less a political figure than John F. Kennedy, when he was a senator, extolled the achievements of poets: "When power leads a man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limits. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." W. H. Auden was extremely impressed with this statement, and quoted it on many occasions.

      The early 20th century poet James Flecker made a very

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