Sicily

Sicilia
di Aldo Tambellini

tradotta in sicilianu di G. Cipolla

Fu dittu
ca i piscaturi vittiru a Cristu
caminari supra l’unna dû tempu
siminannu u mari di pisci
I viddani dissiru ca Gèsu
câ curuna di spini di ficudinnia
caminau scausu supra i rocci
poi s’incinucchiau sudannu sangu sutta l’alivi
vitti la cruci
nchianau supra u munti cchiù autu
e si isau ntô celu.
Cristu,
di st’isula
di focu lava tirrimotu
terra cû to sangu e siti
ti nni ricordi?
E’ a Sicilia.
Puisia Siciliana
 

Castrofilippo ( Moorish architecture) Palermo
 

Magione, Palermo
Built by the Teutonic Knights @ 1190 AD
 

Baglio Donna Franca -near Marsala 2007
 

Capo Blanco -The Southern Coast of Sicily 2007
 
 

Tempio di Giunone, Agrigento
 
 

The city of Agrigento
 
 

Tempo di Ercole, Agrigento
 

Cefalu, Sicily 2007

The Ancient City of Centuripe, Sicily
Along the Road from Catania to Palermo
 

Alimena, Sicily 2009
 

The Tyrrhenian Coast of Sicily (close to Messina)
 

The Ionian Coast (looking towards Taormina)
 

Prizzi, Sicily 2009
 

Randazzo ( 765m. high. pop. 11,550) with Mt. Etna in background
 

Erice, Sicily
On the Western Coast near Trapani

From the mountaintop of Erice
Looking down on Trapani, southwest to Africa
 
 

The Monti Nebrodi forest on SS116 heading to Naso
 

The beach at Mondello, north of Palermo
 
 

Segesta, Sicily
 

Segesta, Western Sicily
 

The Ancient Roman Villa outside Piazza Armerina
 

The Roman Villa's Mosaics

The Villa is considered a Roman Emperor's Hunting Lodge

The Villa dates back to the 1st Century AD
 
 
 
 

Santo Stefano di Camastra (the ceramics city)
 

Petralia Soprana 2009
 

Sicily's North Coast near Bagheria 2009
 

Termini Imerese @1910
 

Mt. Etna with Gangi in foreground 2009
 

Sicily
by Aldo Tambellini

People said
that fishermen saw Christ
walk upon the waves of time
sowing fishes in the sea
The peasant said that Jesus
with his crown of thorns of prickly pears
walked barefoot upon the rocks
then kneeled sweating blood beneath the olive tree
saw the cross
climbed to the highest mountain
and rose to heaven.
Christ,
this island
of fire, lava, earthquakes
land with your blood and thirst,
do you remember it?
It’s Sicily.