Table of Contents

ContentsIntroduction Friends 1Frozen night 2March 4Libeccio 5Fragments 1 and 2 6Snapshot 7Two days in Paris 7The young girl of the metro 8Look of love 9Summer rain 10On the bank 10To Bob Dylan 11Homer 12The desert rose 13June 14The desert 14Crossing the Po Valley 15To be elsewhere 16The choir 18Mamma 19Summer twilight 20Autumn in Tuscany 21The call 22The chopped tree 23Voice of a little girl 23Vanity 24Hopes 25 Who am I? 26Know yourself 27Stars 27The tears of the world 28A prayer for you 28Simplicity 29 Poor people 29The shepherd 30Sardinia 31 Early poems, aged nine: Pigeons 32 The daisy 33 The robin 33 Poems for my children: The little Tibetan Goats 34 The snack 35 Fifth birthday 35

About the Author

Paola was born in 1928 in Lucca, Italy. She lived all her married life in Florence. She died in 2013. She began to write poetry when she was a child. Her poems were scattered around her home - on scraps of paper or in jotters - and were collected together by her son, Marco Vichi, towards the end of her life.