Father's Day. By Catholic tradition it is made to coincide with the anniversary of St. Joseph, adoptive father of Jesus, who falls on March 19th. For this anniversary I would like to introduce you to two poems by the artist Gentile Polo, dedicated to his sons, both grown up and far away. "To my daughter" When we thought of having you with your mother, I craved you with all my heart. You were already my little baby inside mom's belly and all thoughts were still running and more and more madly to think what you were like. I asked for help, work that I had always known and that basically I was looking for, to give you what to me, since he was a child, he had been denied; so I lost your youth, always talking far away. But know that I did not see it like this: I'm still dying inside, thinking that something is missing and that I made you wrong, and I'm so sorry if I failed to make you understand what I have always dreamed of; but you must live for yourself and look towards the future, and know that I like it being, until mine death, your father, even if now I feel cut off of one of the most beautiful branches in which I have always believed. And yet I believe and I wait that shows that perfect flower to yourself, as a first thought, and then also to the others, who like me they will only be able to enjoy the rest that in you it will be done, as I am sure, by itself ... "To my son" And then there are dreams, that draw our future: horizons apparently always close, handy, to which we run when we need help; moments lived in a usually stationary body or continuous torment provocateurs, that reveal all our fears but that make us think in the waking hours. Perceptions maybe gone crazy, that find a single purpose to protect the heart and the mind. Perhaps we are still looking for that giant and safe beech, in the snow in the woods, guardian of the friend's pasture, which imposes, with the widened branches, a quiet thinking to reach healthy goals, feeding the mind and giving hope and that helped me to believe that, in the midst of so much candor, could bloom over time still a beautiful flower so ... how it was. The poems are published by Aletti Editore di Altre Sembianze S.r.L. in the book "Pensieri ... Una strada in salita", Gentile Polo (2017). http://www.alettieditore.it/emersi/2017/Polo.html https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/pensieri-strada-salita-polo-gentile/libro/9788859147442 https://www.lafeltrinelli.it/libri/gentile-polo/pensieri-una-strada-salita/9788859147442 https://www.unilibro.it/libro/polo-gentile/pensieri-una-strada-in-salita/9788859147442 https://www.amazon.it/Pensieri-strada-salita-Gentile-Polo/dp/8859147441 http://www.libreriamontalbano.it/prodotto/pensieri-una-strada-in-salita-gentile-polo-i-e-code/ From me and the Studio d'Arte Gentile Polo then a happy Father's Day to everyone!
(Lucia Martorelli - Gentile Polo Art Studio)