The Painted Desert (Namibia)
An Italian sonnet focusing on the stark, haunting beauty of the Namib and its resilient cultures.
The dunes of Sossusvlei are frozen waves,
Of burnt-orange sand against a sky of blue,
Where Welwitschia drinks the morning dew,
And ancient ghosts inhabit desert caves.
The Skeleton Coast, where many found their graves,
Is haunting in its grey and misty hue,
Yet here the Himba start their lives anew,
The hardy folk that solitude engraves.
The cheetah runs across the Etosha pan,
A streak of lightning on the silver floor,
Far from the busy, crowded works of man.
From Fish River to the Atlantic's roar,
A landscape etched before the world began,
With silence that the heavens must adore.
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