Foreword
My footprints on the worldI've read a lot about Poet Nuccio Coriale and after getting
to know him, I haven't stopped. I like Nuccio who speaks to the
moon and gives it his pain "Sweet Moon" and is able to represent in
verse a rainbow of emotions stirring up memories, fueling dreams
and hopes, and meanwhile the soul ignites and calms down. These
are, by Nuccio, pages from an autobiographical diary, a journey
through time that he undertakes with intensity, using simple words,
between light and shadow, noise and silence. He renames it "My
footprints on the world," this his latest manuscript, because he
firmly wants his presence to remain in the world, so he leaves
small, live pebbles here and there, which know how to shine, make
themselves seen, traces that are fixed indestructibly in the storm
of passing time. No one wins against time, no one will live
forever, except the verse of a poem and the echo of an emotion (My
footprints on the world). On the power, the magic of poetry; Nuccio
comes back again, stops and tells. I don't know how to define
poetry, I really wouldn't know... Who would know how to name
poetry? What is poetry? Where is it? Nuccio knows how to talk about
peace, strength, and salvation that comes from poetry, because he
has experienced all these things, tasted them since poetry entered
his heart. Poetry to observe reality, to live it like a dream,
embroidering and weaving it. How sweet is the representation of
poetry in his verses! It is like love, music, nature, friendship
and salvation. And while Nuccio writes, he approaches the world and
gives it away. ...I found the wood of a wreck and I clung to it...,
soothing the pain and prolonging the pleasure. I would call him the
poet of love, his favorite theme, that love represents, draws,
tells and declares with different nuances, because to him black and
white does not belong. How many words of love do you tell me... He
wisely chooses words, as if they were flowers, as if they were
songs, because the weight of words doesn't burn the magic of love,
but rather wakes up emotions, coloring them. Touching your breast
while you're making sauce (Everyday Poems). The poet who gives
discoveries, disturbances, that have marked his time, that never
stop. And he walks with time, follows it, chases it, never stops.
He looks and holds in mind the arrival point, this beautiful poet,
where lonely, sad people, people that time has changed and made
fragile are waiting for him (Father, little of mine), ...Put your
tired hand on my arm... "I will listen to your rough voice... I
will help you finish the words, like when you taught me to speak as
a child. Touching is the image of an old and tired father that a
son leads by the hand, becoming his strength and legs. Nuccio, true
to himself, does not fear to reveal himself. He is determined,
spontaneous, and sometimes bold. So many places, smells, and sighs
serve as background and accompany him, and here it seems to hear
him, that voice that now tinkles like crystal, now shatters like
rough glass. He knows how to be amazed, this poet, he knows how to
make us amazed like a child; And he becomes a child in his home, in
his daily life, under the attentive and loving eye of his mother
(the mother's phrases). Cover yourself well, it's cold..., don't
worry me..., hold my hand... Because mothers are always worried and
persist in seeing that son always a child and it doesn't matter if
he himself holds his child. Each of his words becomes poetry and
while he tells and listens. The lived times, the lost ones, the
ones left hanging that are still waiting. "Promise." Expressed with
infinite tenderness albeit with a fast rhythm, because he is in a
hurry to arrive at his beloved, honoring the promise. His words are
like an oath: These hugs that I can't give you now will not be
lost... because when I finally hold you close to me, in one embrace
I will give you all... Nuccio Coriale, always in harmony with his
poetic vein, takes the heart and with a caress ignites the rhythm,
makes it fly because it goes through the mind and settles in the
soul. This artist involves me, takes me by the hand. Conscious,
deliberate, who does not keep quiet but also knows how to shout;
And then he sings and suffers, without dispersing. Because, God,
you put us all on this great ship... in the sea of life... What
does this Odyssey mean? Look down, God, explain this shipwreck (The
sea of life) Questions that press, that repeat, and meanwhile
Nuccio becomes a witness and transmits knowledge. He reaches out to
God and speaks to him, with a different intelligence from those who
don't believe, he feels him present and entrusts him with despair,
confidences, fears, making them prayer and waiting, like a wanderer
in the endless desert."
Great faith poet, forging a path in that desert, the space
to cross to reach the Other, the Promised Land that will welcome
him as all believers. I carefully read the pages of Nuccio's latest
work, "My footprints on the world," a collection of clearly
interesting verses, and reached the last verse, I recognized his
signature, going back and always reflecting. I wish everyone would
read it and travel with him, and only then could they feel his
embrace and those intense emotions, like a shudder. Feeling inside
an incredible inner strength, just like someone falling in love.
Falling in love with this travel companion, Nuccio Coriale.
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