Blue lights

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Blue lights

The lights are on

The sea sparkles

With many shades of blue.

It’s nice to peek

At his gloss and his colours:

The faint and the strong,

The light and the dark;

It is the same and it is different,

It is joy and it is pain,

It is immense love.

The lights go down,

Only a fragment

Of Moon brightens

The darkness of the sea;

Its murmur rises and,

If you learn to listen,

The joy of its quietness will pervade you.

Ercole Bonjean ©

Translation by Chiara Amoretti