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@maticol.bsky.social
#translator #writer #exteacher #naturelover #doglover #hiker #reader & #paint covered much of the time
Managing/translating at
https://paralleltexts.blog/ (when the mood hits).
🇨🇦&🇮🇹 Posts/pics with no author/translator named are me being me
Managing/translating at
https://paralleltexts.blog/ (when the mood hits).
🇨🇦&🇮🇹 Posts/pics with no author/translator named are me being me
General strike in Italy. September 22 2025 for #gaza
It included social media silence for 24 hours...
#peacenow #nomorewar
It included social media silence for 24 hours...
#peacenow #nomorewar
September 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
General strike in Italy. September 22 2025 for #gaza
It included social media silence for 24 hours...
#peacenow #nomorewar
It included social media silence for 24 hours...
#peacenow #nomorewar
September 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I have decided that seasons do not mark time for hikers (and their dogs), fruit does: from wild plums to blackberries, strawberry grapes to figs, walnuts to wild pears...
#hiking #dogs #jackrussel #nature
#hiking #dogs #jackrussel #nature
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I have decided that seasons do not mark time for hikers (and their dogs), fruit does: from wild plums to blackberries, strawberry grapes to figs, walnuts to wild pears...
#hiking #dogs #jackrussel #nature
#hiking #dogs #jackrussel #nature
Vines gripped the facade,
searching out lifeless windows
framed hermetic blue
#dailyhaikuprompt vine #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #loss
searching out lifeless windows
framed hermetic blue
#dailyhaikuprompt vine #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #loss
September 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Vines gripped the facade,
searching out lifeless windows
framed hermetic blue
#dailyhaikuprompt vine #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #loss
searching out lifeless windows
framed hermetic blue
#dailyhaikuprompt vine #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #loss
I carry this beautiful book with me from room to room. I read, become overwhelmed, put it down, do stuff, pick it up, read, then carry it into another room with me… I know how it ends. #nakba
#Palestine #SuadAmiry #books
Book isn't out IN Eng but it was translated FROM Eng! Why? 🔗 In comments ⬇️
#Palestine #SuadAmiry #books
Book isn't out IN Eng but it was translated FROM Eng! Why? 🔗 In comments ⬇️
August 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I carry this beautiful book with me from room to room. I read, become overwhelmed, put it down, do stuff, pick it up, read, then carry it into another room with me… I know how it ends. #nakba
#Palestine #SuadAmiry #books
Book isn't out IN Eng but it was translated FROM Eng! Why? 🔗 In comments ⬇️
#Palestine #SuadAmiry #books
Book isn't out IN Eng but it was translated FROM Eng! Why? 🔗 In comments ⬇️
Groves in silent hues
of lemon and green eye seas
dripping in orange.
#dailyhaikuprompt grove
#Sorrento #poetry #haiku #Italy
#poetrylovers
of lemon and green eye seas
dripping in orange.
#dailyhaikuprompt grove
#Sorrento #poetry #haiku #Italy
#poetrylovers
August 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Groves in silent hues
of lemon and green eye seas
dripping in orange.
#dailyhaikuprompt grove
#Sorrento #poetry #haiku #Italy
#poetrylovers
of lemon and green eye seas
dripping in orange.
#dailyhaikuprompt grove
#Sorrento #poetry #haiku #Italy
#poetrylovers
Walks under bridges:
still green waters and echoes
of footsteps mirrored.
#haiku #poetry #sundaywalks #poetrycommunity
still green waters and echoes
of footsteps mirrored.
#haiku #poetry #sundaywalks #poetrycommunity
August 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Walks under bridges:
still green waters and echoes
of footsteps mirrored.
#haiku #poetry #sundaywalks #poetrycommunity
still green waters and echoes
of footsteps mirrored.
#haiku #poetry #sundaywalks #poetrycommunity
For years I read to kids in libraries. I fell in love with the poetry of #GianniRodari, an Italian writer, teacher, and brilliant man with a profound sense of justice and equality.
This is from the book: "Il cielo è di tutti"
#peace #nomorewar #poetry #translation
paralleltexts.blog/tag/gianni-r...
This is from the book: "Il cielo è di tutti"
#peace #nomorewar #poetry #translation
paralleltexts.blog/tag/gianni-r...
August 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
For years I read to kids in libraries. I fell in love with the poetry of #GianniRodari, an Italian writer, teacher, and brilliant man with a profound sense of justice and equality.
This is from the book: "Il cielo è di tutti"
#peace #nomorewar #poetry #translation
paralleltexts.blog/tag/gianni-r...
This is from the book: "Il cielo è di tutti"
#peace #nomorewar #poetry #translation
paralleltexts.blog/tag/gianni-r...
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
July 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Pettegola, you,
legs soaking in orange hued
ripples - nosy piping
#dailyhaiku #haiku #poetry #nature #poetrycommunity #birds #redshank (called "pettegola" in Italian, which also means nosy gossip) #naturelovers #painting #acryliconcanvas
legs soaking in orange hued
ripples - nosy piping
#dailyhaiku #haiku #poetry #nature #poetrycommunity #birds #redshank (called "pettegola" in Italian, which also means nosy gossip) #naturelovers #painting #acryliconcanvas
July 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Pettegola, you,
legs soaking in orange hued
ripples - nosy piping
#dailyhaiku #haiku #poetry #nature #poetrycommunity #birds #redshank (called "pettegola" in Italian, which also means nosy gossip) #naturelovers #painting #acryliconcanvas
legs soaking in orange hued
ripples - nosy piping
#dailyhaiku #haiku #poetry #nature #poetrycommunity #birds #redshank (called "pettegola" in Italian, which also means nosy gossip) #naturelovers #painting #acryliconcanvas
Not all god's creatures
await - like me - the sweet scent
of freshly cut grass
#dailyhaikuprompt (cut grass) #haiku #poetry #nature #roedeer #hiking #walks
#writingcommunity #poetrylovers
await - like me - the sweet scent
of freshly cut grass
#dailyhaikuprompt (cut grass) #haiku #poetry #nature #roedeer #hiking #walks
#writingcommunity #poetrylovers
July 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Not all god's creatures
await - like me - the sweet scent
of freshly cut grass
#dailyhaikuprompt (cut grass) #haiku #poetry #nature #roedeer #hiking #walks
#writingcommunity #poetrylovers
await - like me - the sweet scent
of freshly cut grass
#dailyhaikuprompt (cut grass) #haiku #poetry #nature #roedeer #hiking #walks
#writingcommunity #poetrylovers
There were cows grazing
in the pasture once - and my kids
rolled down hillocks laughing
(wrong day #prompt but today's view inspired me) #dailyhaikuprompt (pasture)
#haiku #poetry #loss #nature #writing
#poetrycommunity
in the pasture once - and my kids
rolled down hillocks laughing
(wrong day #prompt but today's view inspired me) #dailyhaikuprompt (pasture)
#haiku #poetry #loss #nature #writing
#poetrycommunity
July 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
There were cows grazing
in the pasture once - and my kids
rolled down hillocks laughing
(wrong day #prompt but today's view inspired me) #dailyhaikuprompt (pasture)
#haiku #poetry #loss #nature #writing
#poetrycommunity
in the pasture once - and my kids
rolled down hillocks laughing
(wrong day #prompt but today's view inspired me) #dailyhaikuprompt (pasture)
#haiku #poetry #loss #nature #writing
#poetrycommunity
"I say it all the time: if Palestine were a crime scene, all our fingerprints would be on it. The goods we buy, the banks we entrust with our savings, the universities we give our taxes to." #FrancescaAlbanese (UN Special Rapporteur) #Palestine #peacenow
⬇️ (To name but a few)
⬇️ (To name but a few)
July 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"I say it all the time: if Palestine were a crime scene, all our fingerprints would be on it. The goods we buy, the banks we entrust with our savings, the universities we give our taxes to." #FrancescaAlbanese (UN Special Rapporteur) #Palestine #peacenow
⬇️ (To name but a few)
⬇️ (To name but a few)
Like dragonflies skim
and skip over still waters
my pebble too - then it sinks
#dailyhaikuprompt (pebble)
#haiku #poetry #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet #nature
and skip over still waters
my pebble too - then it sinks
#dailyhaikuprompt (pebble)
#haiku #poetry #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet #nature
July 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Like dragonflies skim
and skip over still waters
my pebble too - then it sinks
#dailyhaikuprompt (pebble)
#haiku #poetry #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet #nature
and skip over still waters
my pebble too - then it sinks
#dailyhaikuprompt (pebble)
#haiku #poetry #blueskypoetry #blueskypoet #nature
Stifling sunlit paths
coast parched rivers - nothing but
plums to quench my thirst
#dailyhaikuprompt (plums)
#nature #hikes #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
coast parched rivers - nothing but
plums to quench my thirst
#dailyhaikuprompt (plums)
#nature #hikes #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
July 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Stifling sunlit paths
coast parched rivers - nothing but
plums to quench my thirst
#dailyhaikuprompt (plums)
#nature #hikes #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
coast parched rivers - nothing but
plums to quench my thirst
#dailyhaikuprompt (plums)
#nature #hikes #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
White haired ladies hike
along grassy leas strewn with
peas and cornflowers
#dailyhaikupromp (peas)
autobiographical #haiku
#poetry #poetrylovers
#nature #naturelovers #hiking
along grassy leas strewn with
peas and cornflowers
#dailyhaikupromp (peas)
autobiographical #haiku
#poetry #poetrylovers
#nature #naturelovers #hiking
June 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
White haired ladies hike
along grassy leas strewn with
peas and cornflowers
#dailyhaikupromp (peas)
autobiographical #haiku
#poetry #poetrylovers
#nature #naturelovers #hiking
along grassy leas strewn with
peas and cornflowers
#dailyhaikupromp (peas)
autobiographical #haiku
#poetry #poetrylovers
#nature #naturelovers #hiking
Lifeless butterfly
adrift, wings outstretched, in low pool
of reflected sky
#dailyhaikuprompt (drift)
#haiku #poetry #writing #poetrylovers #morningwalks #nature #loss #hiking
adrift, wings outstretched, in low pool
of reflected sky
#dailyhaikuprompt (drift)
#haiku #poetry #writing #poetrylovers #morningwalks #nature #loss #hiking
June 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Lifeless butterfly
adrift, wings outstretched, in low pool
of reflected sky
#dailyhaikuprompt (drift)
#haiku #poetry #writing #poetrylovers #morningwalks #nature #loss #hiking
adrift, wings outstretched, in low pool
of reflected sky
#dailyhaikuprompt (drift)
#haiku #poetry #writing #poetrylovers #morningwalks #nature #loss #hiking
" 'No he needn't, need he,' said Paul, and the two comforted each other from the fear of having robbed the pot man."
#SonsandLovers #D.H.Lawrence
Lord knows where such noble thoughts have disappeared to...
#onceuponatime #writing #greatbooks to be read and reread.
#SonsandLovers #D.H.Lawrence
Lord knows where such noble thoughts have disappeared to...
#onceuponatime #writing #greatbooks to be read and reread.
June 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
" 'No he needn't, need he,' said Paul, and the two comforted each other from the fear of having robbed the pot man."
#SonsandLovers #D.H.Lawrence
Lord knows where such noble thoughts have disappeared to...
#onceuponatime #writing #greatbooks to be read and reread.
#SonsandLovers #D.H.Lawrence
Lord knows where such noble thoughts have disappeared to...
#onceuponatime #writing #greatbooks to be read and reread.
Ripples appear on pools
where frogs steathily slip
from lotus to dark
#dailyhaikuprompt (water, dark) #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #painting (my own, oil on canvas)
where frogs steathily slip
from lotus to dark
#dailyhaikuprompt (water, dark) #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #painting (my own, oil on canvas)
June 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ripples appear on pools
where frogs steathily slip
from lotus to dark
#dailyhaikuprompt (water, dark) #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #painting (my own, oil on canvas)
where frogs steathily slip
from lotus to dark
#dailyhaikuprompt (water, dark) #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #painting (my own, oil on canvas)
"she hugged me. June Boatwright hugged me..."
And I, who had started to lose interest at circa page 200 (went so far as to read the last 5 pages even), feeling the urge to close the book forever, cried.
Some pages (when, unfortunately, not the whole book) can be like fireflies in the dark.
And I, who had started to lose interest at circa page 200 (went so far as to read the last 5 pages even), feeling the urge to close the book forever, cried.
Some pages (when, unfortunately, not the whole book) can be like fireflies in the dark.
June 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"she hugged me. June Boatwright hugged me..."
And I, who had started to lose interest at circa page 200 (went so far as to read the last 5 pages even), feeling the urge to close the book forever, cried.
Some pages (when, unfortunately, not the whole book) can be like fireflies in the dark.
And I, who had started to lose interest at circa page 200 (went so far as to read the last 5 pages even), feeling the urge to close the book forever, cried.
Some pages (when, unfortunately, not the whole book) can be like fireflies in the dark.
April 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"Money makes war, war makes postwar, postwar makes black market, black market makes money again, money makes war again.” – Totò (Antonio De Curtis: Italian comic actor, producer, writer)
#quotes
#quotes
March 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Money makes war, war makes postwar, postwar makes black market, black market makes money again, money makes war again.” – Totò (Antonio De Curtis: Italian comic actor, producer, writer)
#quotes
#quotes