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Awareness: Look outside to dream, look inside to wake up Meeting Benches is a website dedicated to art, creativity and sharing stories and emotions. Imagine a virtual place where each article is like a person sitting next to you on a park bench, ready to share thoughts, stories and moments of reflection. Imagine also that a digital artist, Dastilige Nevante, …

Songs and poems, between messages of resilience and hope The song “Tomorrow Is Another Day,” a single released in 1971, written by Giorgio Calabrese and Jerry Chesnut, is from a cover version titled The Wonders You Perform by singer Tammy Wynette, an American country singer-songwriter from Mississippi. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, she dominated the US charts with …

Seven poems, a song and contrasting feelings The Meeting Benches, hosting travel stories or art experiences, are silent witnesses of chance encounters, deep conversations, love stories and moments of reflection. In this post, they offer you a creative collage made of music, words and images. All forms of art have their charm: painting need inner light and poetry requires a …

Without poem it you can do nothing and you are nothing The story behind the name Meeting Benches is fascinating and full of meaning. Imagine any place, a park or a square, where the benches act as a meeting point for people; they are silent witnesses of chance encounters, deep conversations, love stories and moments of reflection. Imagine sitting on …

Made not to suffer, but to shine with their uniqueness Feminine poetry is a hymn to the beauty, resilience and power of women. Here are some short poems that celebrate the femininity and strength of women, starting from one by William Shakespeare, STANDING, GENTLEMEN, BEFORE A WOMAN: For all the violence committed on her, for all the humiliations she has …

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Take poetry a step further as a softball-themed metaphor She is the author of two self-published poetry collections, Mocha Melodies and She Was Once Herself. She was born in Liberia in 1967; she immigrated to the United States, where she grew up in Philadelphia. For her ability to balance poetic writing with participation in the urban social network, under the …

If poetry makes us aware of what surrounds us Because of her ability to grasp everything in detail, this poet cultivates a great passion for haiku. Inma J. Ferrero was born in Madrid in 1977. Poet, literary critic and founder of the cultural magazine Proverso, she is a member, among other things, of Novelados, Red writers and Yo soy poeta, …

Write in dialect, when the language cannot provide sounds to express you To understand his way of combining poetry and humor, one sentence from him is enough: “In Milan there is still a tram that costs ten cents, but so cheap that it never comes.” His personality was dominate by total distrust of men, as well as by the loss …

Write on the outskirts of life, in relative isolation. Author of over 15 poetry books, Chimako Tada https://poets.org/poet/tada-chimako was a poet famous for her surreal style. She translated prose and poetry from French, documenting with words the female experience in the period following the end of the Second World War. Her Japanese translation of Yourcenar’s Memoires d’Hadrien was publish with …