{"id":5762,"date":"2025-10-12T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/?page_id=5762"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:25:52","slug":"two-poems-by-concetta-la-placa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afflatuscreations.com\/index.php\/two-poems-by-concetta-la-placa\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems by Concetta La Placa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5762\" class=\"elementor elementor-5762\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e700cb2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e700cb2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f94a7d6\" data-id=\"f94a7d6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3b7394 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c3b7394\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Two Poems by Concetta La Placa<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHILDHOOD BETRAYED<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A cry of profound pain<\/p>\n<p>rises in these hours<\/p>\n<p>throughout the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A cry for help, stifled by the indifference and indolence<\/p>\n<p>of those in power,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are those who, out of vain honor, have donned only the<\/p>\n<p>garb of warmongers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They, stunned and helpless, appear before the tearful<\/p>\n<p>and desperate gaze of an Afghan girl.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She cries. She knows she has been abandoned by everyone, to the cruel history of her tormented people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She knows that a cruel fate<\/p>\n<p>will soon deliver the other women<\/p>\n<p>into the hands of the ruthless Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are cruel men,<\/p>\n<p>ruthless fighters<\/p>\n<p>who know no God.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her sad eyes reveal<\/p>\n<p>that, soon, women will be wounded<\/p>\n<p>in their dignity as human beings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, soon,<\/p>\n<p>their free will,<\/p>\n<p>as females, will be overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And she, as a child,<\/p>\n<p>has already been deprived<\/p>\n<p>of her innocent<\/p>\n<p>childhood, which<\/p>\n<p>no one will ever give back to her!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Concetta La Placa<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>POIGNANT LONELINESS&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The silence is like a shock wave for the soul.<\/p>\n<p>It invests me and pulls me into a rare sonorous depth of melancholy.<\/p>\n<p>And, thus, imaginary echoes of sounds in the distance come to me.<\/p>\n<p>Then, memories and black and white images begin to crowd my mind in solitary dance.<\/p>\n<p>I turn around and with me there is only the shadow of my yearning loneliness.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Concetta La Placa<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5>Concetta La Placa Bio-Note<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concetta La Placa<\/strong> is an Italian poet, writer, aphorist, critic, translator, and social activist based in Rome. She is the author of <em>Alessandria Today<\/em>, an online magazine, and an active presence in the international poetic scene. La Placa has published seven poetry collections and contributes to international magazines worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>She serves as an Ambassador of Peace and Culture for the International Forum for Creativity and Humanity (IFCH) and has been appointed as an ambassador for the ASIH SASAMI Indonesia Foundation for the period 2025\u20132030, recognized by Dr. (HC) Rini Asih Sasami, President of the foundation. Additionally, she is an official member of the \u201cCattedra delle Donne\u201d organization, the Peace Charter Project led by Dr. (Hc) Mar\u00eda Elena Ram\u00edrez, and the Millennium Renaissance Group, founded and presided over by Prof. George Onsy (RRM3).<\/p>\n<p>La Placa has held professional roles as a teacher at L.U.M.S.A. University in Rome and as a contributor to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Poems by Concetta La Placa \u00a0 CHILDHOOD BETRAYED. \u00a0 A cry of profound pain rises in these hours throughout the universe. \u00a0 A cry for help, stifled by the indifference and indolence of those in power, \u00a0 They are those who, out of vain honor, have donned only the garb of warmongers. \u00a0 They, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5762","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two Poems by Concetta La Placa - Afflatus Creations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A cry of profound pain rises in these hours through out the universe. 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