Selected Poems For Children: Volume 2

By Fabrizio Frosini and Poets Unite Worldwide

Also 18 children contributed to this anthology with words and paintings created by them. Their art expresses their individuality and their perception of Life. (Lidia Hristeva, UK)
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Besides the group of poets who needed to get into smaller shoes to set their imaginations free, it was a pleasure to have a few younger writers on the team... our youngest a beautiful young lady aged three years old! How wonderful to know that poetry is well and alive being enjoyed across generations! (Annette Potgieter, SA)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fabrizio Frosini
• Release date: May 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463359327

Fabrizio Frosini

Author and Publisher — Born in Tuscany, Italy, and currently living close to Florence and Vinci, Leonardo's hometown. Doctor in Medicine, specialized in Neurosurgery, with an ancient passion for Poetry, he is the Author of over 2,000 poems published in 20 personal books. Frosini writes in Italian, his native language, and English. He is the founder of the International Association "Poets Unite Worldwide," with which he has published over 50 Anthologies. Among his own books: «The Chinese Gardens - English Poems», «Prelude to the Night», «Anita Quiclotzl & Her Souls - Anita Quiclotzl e le Sue Anime» (Bilingual Ed.) [for the others, see below].~*~Books published as sole Author:(*BE*: Bilingual Editions, English–Italian ; All books have PAPERBACK and EBOOK Editions)– «The Chinese Gardens – English Poems» – English Ed. – (published also in Italian Ed.:– «I Giardini Cinesi» – Edizione Italiana);– «KARUMI – Haiku & Tanka» – Italian Ed.;– «Allo Specchio di Me Stesso» ('In the Mirror of Myself') – Italian Ed.;– «Il Vento e il Fiume» ('The Wind and the River') – Italian Ed.;– «A Chisciotte» ('To Quixote') – Italian Ed.;– «Il Puro, l'Impuro – Kosher/Treyf» ('The pure, the Impure – Kosher / Treyf') – Italian Ed.;– «Frammenti di Memoria – Carmina et Fragmenta» ('Fragments of Memories') – Italian Ed.;– «La Città dei Vivi e dei Morti» ('The City of the Living and the Dead') – Italian Ed.;– «Nella luce confusa del crepuscolo» ('In the fuzzy light of the Twilight') – Italian Ed.;– «Limes —O La Chiave Dei Sogni» ('The Key to Dreams') – Italian Ed.;– «Echi e Rompicapi» ('Puzzles & Echoes') – Italian Ed.;– «Ballate e Altre Cadenze» ('Ballads and Other Cadences') – Italian Ed.;– «Selected Poems – Επιλεγμένα Ποιήματα – Poesie Scelte» – Greek–English–Italian (Αγγλικά, Ελληνικά, Ιταλικά – Greek translation by Dimitrios Galanis);– «Prelude to the Night – English Poems» – English Ed. (published also in Italian Ed.:– «Preludio alla Notte» – Edizione Italiana);– «A Season for Everyone – Tanka Poetry» – English Ed.;– «Evanescence of the Floating World – Haiku» – English Ed.;– «From the Book of Limbo – Dal Libro del Limbo» – *BE*;– «Anita Quiclotzl & Her Souls – Anita Quiclotzl e le Sue Anime» – *BE*.~*~Forthcoming publications:– «Mirror Games — A Tale» – English Edition (also in Italian Ed.:– «Giochi di Specchi — Un Racconto»);– «Il Sentiero della Luna» ('The Moon's Path') – Italian Edition.~*~Anthologies published by Fabrizio Frosini with "Poets Unite Worldwide"(*BE*: Bilingual Editions, English-Italian ; All books both in PAPERBACK and EBOOK)1. Poetry Collections:– 'At The Crossing Of Seven Winds' – English Ed.;– 'Nine Tales Of Creation' – English Ed.;– 'Scattering Dreams & Tales' – English Ed.;– 'We Are The Words – Siamo Parole' – *BE*;– 'Whispers to the World – Sussurri al Mondo" – *BE*;– 'How to write Poetry, A Handbook – Come scrivere Poesie, Manuale'– *BE*;– 'Poetry Against Terror'– English Ed.;– 'Poets Against Inequality'– English Ed.;– 'By Land & By Seas – Poetry for the Refugees' – English Ed.;– 'Voices without veils' – English Ed.;– 'Singing Together – Poems for Christmas' – English Ed.;– 'We All Are Persons – Why Gender Discrimination?' – English Ed.;– 'A Note, a Word, a Brush – Ode to the Arts' – English Ed.;– 'Seasons of the Fleeting World – Writing Haiku' – English Ed.;– 'Our Chains, Our Dreams' [Part One] – English Ed.;– 'Our Chains, Our Dreams' [Part Two] – English Ed.;– 'Our Chains, Our Dreams' [Part Three] – English Ed.;– 'Our Only World – Poetry for Planet Earth' – English Ed.;– 'Time to show up – Poetry for Democracy' – English Ed.;– 'Let's Laugh Together – Poems for Children' – English Ed.;– 'Moments of Lightness – Haiku & Tanka' – English Ed.;– 'United We Stand – Poets Against Terror' – English Ed.;– 'When Love is Bitter' – English Ed.;– 'From an Old Path – Contemporary European Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'Tunes from the Indian Subcontinent – Contemporary Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'Whispering to the Heart – Contemporary African Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'Hues of the World – Contemporary Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'The Sounds of America – Contemporary American Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'Fifty-six Female Voices of Contemporary Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'Homo Homini Lupus: Why To kill a Mockingbird?' – English Ed.;– 'Through Time, Through Space' – English Ed.;– 'Spring Songs' – English Ed.;– 'Summer Arias' – English Ed.;– 'Autumn Lullabies' – English Ed.;– 'Winter Melodies' – English Ed.;– 'The Four Seasons Poetry Concerto' – English Ed.;– 'The Feminine Heart of Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'Geography & Music of Poetry' – English Ed.;– 'Space of the Mind' – English Ed.;– 'From the Past to the Future' – English Ed.;– 'Abstract Life, Abstract Love' – English Ed.;– 'Born on a Full Moon — Senryū' – English Ed.;– 'About Abel & Cain —or The Best & Worst of Human Society' – English Ed.;– 'Poems from a Land of Wonders' – English Ed.;– 'One Step At A Time' – English Ed.;– 'About Love' – English Ed.;– 'The Moon & The Humans' – English Ed.;– 'Glimmers of Light–Guizzi di Luce' – T. Billsborough & F. Frosini – *BE*;– 'The Soprano of Sunlight–Luce di Soprano' – Billsborough, Frosini – *BE*;– 'The Double Door' by Daniel J. Brick & Fabrizio Frosini – English Ed.;2. Other Books (Ebook & Paperback Editions):– 'Essays on the World of Humans' – D.J. Brick & F. Frosini – English Edition.~*~Forthcoming publications:– 'Planet Earth in Danger — Poems' – English Edition;– 'Poetic Fantasies' – English Edition;– 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? — The wave of global protest' – English Edition;– 'Short Tales Extravaganza' – English Edition.~*~Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/poetsuniteworldwide/Website address:https://poetsuniteworldwide.org/Blog:https://poetsuniteworldwide.wordpress.com/Twitter username:@fabriziofrosini

Book preview

Opening Note

Although some of the poems in this collection are new, most are a selection of the poems already published in the anthology CHILDREN WE ARE – Poems For Children.

The following is taken up (and partially modified) from my Opening Note to that book.

The publication of our second anthology of poems for children —the first, published in 2017, was 'Let's Laugh Together'— comes at a time when the world is facing a horrible health, social and economic crisis. Among those who are paying the highest price because of the coronavirus pandemic: the poor, the sick, the elderly and even children.

Yes, children are paying a huge price, especially on a psychological level: isolation, being forced into even very small spaces, the lack of relationships with peers, not to mention even more serious problems that can affect family life, increase the sense of fear, uncertainty and anxiety in children.

For such a reason, for this special project we have accepted not only poems but also paintings made by small children, and we are therefore grateful to those parents who have given us permission to include their children’s works (poems and paintings) in this anthology.

I also want to express my gratitude to my co-editors —Tom Billsborough, John Davison and Carol Fenwick— and to All the Poets & Painters of this Anthology: this book is the product of their commitment.

(Fabrizio Frosini)

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breakfast..

along with honey

comes the bee

Fabrizio Frosini, senryū

(in Born on a Full Moon, 2019)'

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Introduction

[The following is the partially modified text of the Introduction to the Anthology CHILDREN WE ARE – Poems For Children, written by Annette Potgieter]

Morag Styles, Professor of Children Poetry at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, ponders that perhaps children’s response to poetry starts as early as in the womb, at the rhythmic beating of the heart.

This is the second poetry book for children released by Poets Unite Worldwide, under the admirable leadership of Fabrizio Frosini, from the confinement of his home in Tuscany. Whilst the world braced for the vicious attack of COVID-19 and held its breath at the news of the extent to which beautiful Italy was affected, Frosini encouraged poets to offer children poems that can mitigate their fears and make them dream. And poets from around the world stepped into the shoes of their younger selves, rearranged their glasses to appreciate the magic of the first morning rays and slipped into wings of faith. And as the world was held in the grip of the novel virus, behold, a potpourri of dreamy children poetry was born.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can’t, is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. —from The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie.

Children fly on wings of faith above the turbulence that life brings. They have a charming ability to dream sunshine into the hurricane, visualize the orange of Autumn on a naked winter tree and hear the ocean when all we see is endless scorching desert. Our poets tapped into that ability when they lifted their feathers and dipped it in ink. Just to mention a few:

Anitah Muwanguzi invites the reader to a distant time and place where eager dirty faces, ran bare feet and unattended, until caring hands reached out and a loving voice said: Let the little children come to me.

Thea Gomez explains why cats and dogs can never lose their socks and shoes, but little boys and girls can, if they don’t put them away where they belong.

Steven Vogel watches snow flakes fall through an empty tree, before forming