Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 7, No. 3: CLRI August 2020

Dr Maria Miraglia

One Nation

I wish no longer

see military parades

people celebrating

independence days

colored flags waving

over schools and palaces

manors and castles

Hear patriotic hymns

and people’s praises

for soldiers ‘ valor

the greater their courage

the more the blood shed

May wise hands reward with

golden medals

men fighting for peace

today and ever

Let’s all remove

each war’s hero

from history books

and men’ s minds

today and ever

Each nation a piece of

a common world

of a planet suspended

in the endless void

all around

the space unknown

Let’s all dream

One nation One people

our common flag the sky

our common nation the world.

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Educationist, writer, poet and translator, Dr Maria Miraglia was born and lives in Italy. She graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures then got a Master’s degree in Evaluation followed some time later by a second one in Teaching of Modern Languages and an HLC from the Trinity College of Edinburgh. She has been for long an active member of Amnesty international, is a member of the Human Rights’ Observatory, Deputy President for the United World Movement for Children Coordination, she herself founding member of World Foundation for Peace. Dr Maria Miraglia is the Literary Director of P. Neruda, honorary member of Nationes Unidas de las Letras, President of the Organization Mundial de los Trovatores,-Italy. She is a member of several editorial boards for poetry and a contributor to many poetry groups. Her poems have been translated into several languages and have found pride of place in national and international anthologies.She writes both in Italian and English Guest of several festivals for poetry she is recipient of many awards and recognitions.

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