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WHAT DO YOU WANT?

IT'S SPRING!

Ilona Bastos

MEET THE ARTIST MARIA LETIZIA LA POSTA

Collina in Primavera, MARIA LETIZIA LA POSTA

http://www.posta.it/quadri_laposta.html

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What do you want? It’s Spring!

Why do you predict its death if the Sun shines

And fills our souls with joy, and the birds

Cheerfully enlighten our minds

With thoughts of happiness ?

Why do you insist complaining this is a passing grace?

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It’s Spring, can't you understand?

Do I have to shout to explain to you

The miracle of Nature?

Do I have to tie you and shut you up

To stop you from mumbling bitterly,

“Ah, this good weather hasn’t come to stay?”

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Don’t you see?

That precisely for being ephemeral

Spring is absolutely beautiful?

That exactly because this kind and mild warmth

Is transitory, it’s utterly cosy?

That the explosion of life that makes us reborn

Dwells in the precariousness of this blessed light

Flooded by the rain, beaten by the wind?

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Silence, if you can’t appreciate

The magnificent day that awaits us!

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What do you want? Everything comes to pass,

Everything changes, and that’s the reason why

We may remain as we are.

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