Illustrated poems
The Betty B – Festival of Comics and Images promotes in its program the national Illustrator Award Illustrated Poetry, to spread poetry and illustration, a contest in its eighth edition.
The aim is the creation of illustrations inspired by as many poems by well-known and published authors, freely chosen, which will be part of the traveling exhibition organized by the festival.
A hymn to wonder
The illustrated poem is “Beauty” by Antonia Pozzi (Milan, 1912-1938). Antonia Pozzi was a tormented and passionate poet, born in the dense cultural climate of early twentieth-century Milan.
This poem is a luminous hymn to the extraordinary essence of life and the generosity of giving oneself completely to the beauty of the surrounding world. In this poem, the poet gives herself to the reader through evocative images and a profound connection with nature.
Beauty - Antonia Pozzi
I give you myself
My sleepless nights
The long sips
of sky and stars – drunk
on the mountains,
the breeze of the seas travelled
towards remote dawns.I give you myself,
the virgin sun of my mornings
on fabulous shores
between survived pillars
and olive trees and spikes.I give you myself,
the afternoons
on the edge of waterfalls,
Sunsets
at the bottom of statues, on the hills,
between the trunks of cypresses,
animated by nests –And you welcome my
child-like marvel
My stem tremor
alive in the circle
of horizons,
bent by the wind
limpid – by beauty:
and you, allow me to watch these eyes
that God gave you,
so dense of the sky –
