CONCETTA LA PLACA

God, Stop This War

Please, my God,
come back to us.
Where did you go?
You have escaped 
from the infamous world.

Please block
these useless wars,
which are setting the planet on fire,
making it a place of violence, 
destruction and pain.

Let peace return again
between brotherly peoples,
that fight each other
like the worst enemies.

In the name of a homeland
they massacre themselves
thousands of people
and first of all the children,
future of our humanity.

O my Lord, grant a little respite 
and, with a breath of peace, extinguish, forever,
this senseless hate.

I Open The Window

It’s a gloomy
sad 
autumnal 
Sunday.

I open the window wide
and, with my tortured heart, I observe the beauty of life
in the little things that are around me.

I see the beauty, because it's there,
under my gaze,
while I’m watching
the opened bud
of the cyclamen on my windowsill.

I see it in the tender movement
of a little bird,
resting on the railing, integrated with harmony
with the surrounding nature.

I see it in the load and clear laugh
of a child,
that comes out
from the house
opposite mine.

Above all,
I see it in those two boys,
the Israeli and the Palestinian ones
whose people of origin
are eternally in conflict.

In my heart and in my dreams, they are together, 
hugging each other,
like brothers, going towards the future, 
beyond all nationalism and borders, 
whispering Shalom.

Martyred Palestine

They are tormented by misery, 
bombed and governed
by an absurd indifference
which engulfs them in a war.

Fire in Gaza hits
old people, children and hospitals
without pity and mercy,
they are unjustly condemned..

In the shadow and in the name of the two homelands, 
which are always at war with each other, 
they are ready to die to save their strip of land.

How nice it would be if
the two States, in peace and joy,
respected each other, everyone
maintaining one's harmony.

War is not a game
and when it starts
it is destructive
and it is never short. 

Do not kill the children, nor get them hungry.
They are the future of a population,
they are small and have no guilt.

It would be nice to live
in an atmosphere of peace,
respecting everyone's life
because time is fleeting

It remains an evanescent dream
Palestine and Israel
held in one heart
of shining love.

CONCETTA LA PLACA: The author, Concetta la Placa, was born in Caltanissetta in Sicily on 07/30/1960 and lives in Rome. From an early age she has always shown that she has a creative nature. She holds a degree in administration and management of social policies. She loves literature and poetry in general. She is passionate about reading and creative writing. In December 2020 her first collection of poems was published, entitled “Cosmic Love and Emotions in the Wind”. It is a collection of 55 poems, all linked by a single common thread: Cosmic Love, which is love for the little things that surround us in this immensity and love for simplicity, enriched only by pure emotions and true feelings. The author has published several poems in numerous national and international anthologies of various authors and various contests to which she has contributed with her participation. The list of publications would be a bit long and is therefore omitted.