ALL’ EUROPA CON AMORE – 2
Nomi per i figli di Laocoonte
GEORGE ONSY (EGYPT) 
BIOGRAPHY- 2023
George Onsy (Born in Cairo, in 1953)
is an Egyptian International Holistic Thinker, Poet, Researcher, Architect/Urban Designer, Artist, and former Professor of Art-Architecture History at The Egyptian-Russian University- Cairo, as well as other academies. His outstanding works of poetry and art calling for a Unifying Universal Spirituality have been published in his books: VOICES FROM ETERNITY-India 2014, LET’S BE ONE IN THE ONE-India 2017, DIALOGUES ACROSS THE CENTURIES-India 2022, all on Amazon, and WITH OSCAR WILD (bookemon), as well as in over 80 international anthologies, magazines, e-zines, and several TV interviews. He is a recipient of several awards notably "THE GLOBAL ICON OF PEACE AWARD”, 2017 and “THE MOST OUTSTANDING PEACE POET”, 2018 (Nigeria), and “THE BEST POET AWARD”-2017 (World Nation Writers Union, Kazakhstan), UME-Latina America in addition to over 80 international Honorary Certificates/Awards. He has been appointed a Peace Ambassador for 10 international Writer Unions. Reaching out to the world in 6 international languages, George has been supported for Nobel Prize by about 290 writers and conference Presidents around the world. He’s also a Board member of IoC/MRA-Egypt. He is also the Founder-President of the European-International Peace Organization RRM3 – RINASCIMENTO-RENAISSANCE MILLENNIUM III of over 500 members of the world’s culture and media luminaries. He is also the International Advisory Team Chairman for GPLT-UK for support on UN and EU projects.
ALL’ EUROPA CON AMORE – 2
Nomi per i figli di Laocoonte
Dei suoi due figli conoscesti
l'altro è Goethe di GERMANIA.
Entrambi con il loro padre non sono
sopravvissuti ai morsi mortali
della progenie dell’Antico Serpente.
Il primo, martire della Rivoluzione
Il secondo, per sfidare Satana
attraverso il suo ‘Faust’,
ricusando tutti i suoi patti.
Alcuni pensano che il Cavallo di Troia
possa galoppare sull'abisso tra
il mito d’ieri e le azioni di oggi.
Oh, come avrei voluto che
Shakespeare d'INGHILTERRA
avesse abbozzato nelle sue tragedie
un leader a qualsiasi livello
tra Lear, il suo re ‘in pensione’,
e Macbeth, dall'imperialismo intossicato!
Ma poiché entrambi son oggi
senza potere ... Senza ricchezza
nel cimitero d'inchiostro del drammaturgo,
alcuni pensano che la reincarnazione
del Cavallo di Troia sia a causa
Aspetta! Provo a chiedere a Dante d'ITALIA,
ancora impegnato a costruire
una scala infinita tra il suo 'Inferno' ed il 'Paradiso’:
dove abbia menzionato nella tua ‘Commedia’
“Le Mille e una Troia”, in cui i partiti di Laocoonte
sono condannati per troppo saggezza?
Alcuni potrebbero chiedere:
"Perché il Cavallo di Troia ha sempre
una forma così gigantesca?"
Ma nel paradiso di Dante,
che una volta era stato calpestato
dai selvaggi cavalli del passato,
è sempre stato lì, pronto a inviare
che al mondo intero ha insegnato
come e dove essere ridicoli per proteggere
tutti i nostri folli sogni.
Quindi, non provare vergogna a cavalcare
quel cavallo di legno, sempre incinto
di qualunque cosa le sue viscere
siano in grado di portare,
non ci sarà alcun rischio ... Sì ...
Ricordati di tutte le sette e le fazioni,
di tutte le parti e tutti i campi
in cui il catastrofico cavallo del passato
non aveva né cavaliere, né sperone, né briglia.
Allora, per mantenere viva la pace oggi
“Dove ci sarà un cavallo,
ci dovrà essere un cavaliere.”
Questo è quello che ho imparato, cara Europa,
dalle opere dei tuoi eroi del Rinascimento,
e che un Rinascimento futuro
possa giungere per realizzare opere
senza armi e spargimento di sangue,
ma solo attraverso gli stendardi bianchi della pace.
Così, aspettiamo il Cavaliere Profetico!
GeorgeOnsy-Egitto©2021
Traduzione 2024 ©Franca Colozzo
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TO EUROPE WITH LOVE– 2
Names for Laocoon’s Sons
Europe dear,
Where’s your ancient Greece
Wise man gone?
Have you ever his two sons known?
If you don’t know let me tell you:
One is FRANCE’s Marat
The other GERMANY’s Goethe
Both … both with their father
Didn’t survive the deadly serpents' bites
The first, the Revolution’s martyr,
For his patriotism
The second is for challenging
Through his ‘Faust’ all devil’s pacts
Some think that the Trojan Horse
Is galloping over the abyss between
Yesterday’s myth and today’s facts.
Oh, if only ENGLAND’s Shakespeare
Had sketched in his plays any leader,
Somewhere between his retired King Lear
And imperialism-addicted Macbeth!
But as both are now powerless and penniless
In the playwright’s inky graveyard,
Some may think that foreseeing
Trojan Horse’s reincarnation
Is not that hard
Wait! Let me try to ask ITALY’s Dante
Who’s still busy building an endless ladder
Between his ‘Inferno’ and ‘Paradiso’:
Have you mentioned in your ‘Comedia’
A thousand and one Troy
Where every ‘Laocoonian party
Is condemned for being too wise?
Some would ask: But should Trojan Horse
Always be of such a massive size?
But at Dante’s Paradise,
Though unmentioned,
SPAIN’s Cervantes
Who had once been trodden
By the past horses wild
Has been always there
Ready to send his Don Quixote
Who has taught the whole world
How we should be ridiculous in order
To secure our crazy dreams
Thus, he finds no shame to ride
That ever-pregnant wooden horse
For whatever its bowels would bring
There will be no risk … yes …
Remember all parties, all factions,
All unions, all camps, all sects
That the past plaguing horse
Had no rider, no spur, no bridle
Today, to keep peace alive, we should say:
Where there’s a horse there is a horseman.
That what I’ve guessed, dear Europe,
From your Renaissance heroes’ works,
And that what a coming-soon Renaissance
Of no arms but only banners white
Will bloodlessly put into action
So, let’s wait for the Apocalyptic Knight!
GeorgeOnsy-Egypt©2021
With my artwork combining our RRM3’s Logo, my painting in the background
(THE INDIAN WHEEL OF EXISTENCE IN DIALOGUE WITH THE
TEMPLE OF ATHENS FRIEZE’S FIGURES-2015), and a selection of world
paintings and sculptures to depict the poem’s theme and elements.
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A MON EUROPE AVEC AMOUR– 2
Donner des noms aux fils de Laocoon
Chère Europe,
Où est-il parti l’homme sage de
Ta Grèce antique ?
Connais-tu les noms de ses deux fils ?
Si tu me dis non, laisse-moi te dire :
L'un est Marat de la FRANCE
L'autre est Goethe de l'ALLEMAGNE
Tous les deux avec leur père n'ont pas survécu
Aux morsures mortelles des serpents
Le premier, martyr de la Révolution,
Pour son patriotisme
Le second pour avoir défié, à travers son "Faust",
Tous les pactes du diable pour ne pas dire : OUI !
Il y’en a qui pensent que le Cheval de Troie
Pourrait galoper sur l'abîme entre le mythe d’hier
Et les actualités d'aujourd'hui.
Oh, si seulement Shakespeare d'ANGLETERRE
Avait esquissé dans ses pièces un leader,
Quelque part entre son roi ‘à la retraite’, Leer
Et son Macbeth, le roi asservi
Par le rêve de l’impérialisme !
Mais comme les deux sont maintenant
Sans gloire, sans pouvoir, enterrés
Dans un cimetière tracé par l’auteur,
Il y’en a qui peuvent prévoir
La réincarnation du Cheval de Troie
Avec un œil de courage
Et un autre de peur.
Mais attends ! Laisse-moi essayer
De demander à Dante d'ITALIE
Qui est toujours occupé par
La construction d’une échelle sans fin
Entre son ‘Inferno’ et son ‘Paradiso’ :
As-tu mentionné dans ta ‘Commedia’
Les mille et une Troies où
Tous les partis laocooniens
Sont condamnés d’avoir été trop sages ?
Il y en a qui se demanderaient :
Mais le Cheval de Troie devrait-il
Toujours causer tant de dommages ?
Mais au paradis de Dante,
Bien qu’il ne soit pas mentionné,
Cervantes d'ESPAGNE
Qui avait autrefois été foulé
Par les chevaux sauvages du passé
Est toujours là, prêt à envoyer
Son Don Quichotte qui a enseigné
Au monde entier comment devenir ridicule
Pour protéger tous les rêves fous.
Donc, il n’aurait aucune honte à monter
Ce cheval de bois, toujours enceint,
Car quoi que ses entrailles apporteraient
Il n'y aurait aucun risque, oui !
Sachez … tous les partis,
Tous les camps, toutes les sectes
Que le cheval catastrophique du passé
N'avait ni cavalier, ni bride, ni éperon !
Et aujourd'hui, pour garder la paix vivante
Il faudrait dire que :
Là où il y aurait un cheval, il faudrait le cavalier.
C'est ce que j'ai deduit, chère Europe,
Des œuvres de ces héros de la Renaissance,
Et ce qu’une Renaissance future avec
Les bannières blanches à la place des tactiques
Réalisera sans verser une goutte de sang.
Alors, attendons le Chevalier Prophétique !
