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Is poetry still possible in the machine era?

From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘ This book perhaps represents precisely its affirmative answer. His author, although aware of the significant changes affecting society and its means of communication, nonetheless decided to share his poetry in a world of fluid telegraphic messages and a chronic inability to focus on things of significance. The author, whose native…

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XIII. Against gravity, against time

Paris, ‘View from Tour Eiffel’ © I. Catanzaro Against gravity, against time Within the fight It reveals the meaning of life (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) In this conclusive and central poem, we get a better picture of the thought expressed within the first verse. ‘Against gravity[1], against time’ that is in the unconditioned self-accountability and thence…

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XXII. To exist means to endure pain.

Vienna, ‘Belvedere Museum’ © I. Catanzaro To exist means to endure pain (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) In this poem, the centrality of pain to the human condition is characterized to the level in which the same concept of existence necessarily implies it and thence to exist (i.e., to be conscious of one’s existence) consequently means to endure pain.

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XXI. The true failure is never having erred

Brussels, ‘Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique’ © I. Catanzaro The true failure is never having erred Never having yearned to cross the boundary To endure suffering, to learn and earn your own mastery (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) In this poem, the author restates the previous concept with even more energy, so that not having erred becomes the real…

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XX. Shut your eyes and visualize, there’s nothing you can’t realize

Cologne, ‘Hiroshima-Nagasaki park’ © I. Catanzaro Shut your eyes and visualize, there’s nothing you can’t realize Get hurt, get dirty, as suffering breeds poetry Immaculacy never pertained to life (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) Here our author shares a thought similar to one by Wittgenstein, ‘what is thinkable is also possible’, he argues that everything a…

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XIX. Sadness is the attitude of those who surrender

Cologne, ‘Stadtbibliothek’ © Sadness is the attitude of those who surrender To give up and act as if you’ve lost It is a trivial pleasure tempting many folks (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) In this poem, the author interprets the emotional state of sadness as an expression of surrender confronting a negative event and argues that, again deriving from his…

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XVIII. Gossip and glasses dissolve all of their worries

Cologne © Gossip and glasses dissolve all of their worries In never-ending instants of an unlived life without growing A series of eternal regrets Themselves are sheep without a brain Full of anxiety but fearless in their gullibility, insane (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) In this poem, again the topic of chatter as part of fun (gossip) and another instance…

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XVII. Modern technology has reduced life’s quality

Cologne, ‘Hiroshima-Nagasaki park’ © Modern technology has reduced life’s quality Weakening men through the nefarious effect of a reward undeserved Decontextualized with the roots utterly severed Then replanted inside a stone and steel desert In a perpetual unsureness of an ever-mutating flow Dependent upon relativistic arbitrary flaws To the only goal of the shadow of a petty fleeting…

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XVI. I will plastically cut to pieces old prejudices

Cologne, ‘Museum Ludwig’ © I will plastically cut to pieces old prejudices I will love completely, inebriated, eroded by life Which I will honor every moment Never wasting a single second, forever devoured by Saturn Always in question and in conflict within I will smile surprised by harmonies renewing perpetually Intrinsically hidden to the common-minded (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To…

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XV. I overcame my own traumas and internalized the greatest possible lessons

Bari from the sky © I overcame my own traumas and internalized the greatest possible lessons Not by reasons or definitions But through a steel-like invincible determination In absolute solitude and desolation (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) The author in this poem touches on the topic of trauma, inherently connected with the previous one of the ‘scars’. He…

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XIV. And no one will ever even graze

London, ‘Trafalgar square’ © And no one will ever even graze The imperious will of mine to be alive In every instance I will defend myself I would siege the whole world alone to care for my own. Never declining life’s challenges Risking and taking the responsibilities for all the consequences Learning by the excruciating scars of experience Through extreme adrenaline-fueled moments Which…

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XIII. It is always better to say, to do

Paris, ‘Champs Elysée, Louis Vuitton’ © It is always better to say, to do Since a mistake can be forgiven A wasted chance is never recovered (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) Here our author is again exhorting his readers to overcome their fear of failure, he contends that it is always better to try and fail than not try and regret. As the time wasted can never…

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XII. I thank some people for having been the example of what I don’t want to be.

Lecce, ‘Monastero degli Olivetani’ © I thank some people for having been the example of what I don’t want to be (From ‘The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection Of Poems‘) Here we see a further instance of the gratitude based on unconditional self-accountability. The author finds an additional reason to be grateful to people who had a negative influence in his life; he thanks them as…