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GARLAND
poetical reading of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights
written by par Roberto Gagliardi
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on UNESCO club of Siena(Italy) initiative
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n°2 vol. XV
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N° 3 vol. XV
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(Let the
following short poems be a garland, these initial words their
tieing ribbon.)
I've lived: the confession is necessary. And I''ve seen many things,
even though often it seemed to me as if I didn't realise it: but
you breathe the air of this world, the earth of this world feeds
you, the water of this world flows in your veins, and the same
thing happens to every fact springing out of our energy, the bright
fire of goodness and the blueish one of the cruel beast that lives
in us. Like everybody, I''m mixed up.
Mirror-dazzled
I believed in many illusions in my past, whereas now I know that
the road is still long, and that there's much blood to waste:
a river of tears. The claws of power dig you: and you let them
grow on your fingers, you see that as a jewel, you share its sour
taste. It's late when you learn that it's necessary to believe
and act according to the rule which sings in you and not according
to the words of your frightened neighbour.
We aren't
all equal, and this fact lets earthy life be sweet-flattering.
Each of us is a light, an ear of corn, a fresh springing water.
We aren't equal, yet we need the same bread and the same roses:
and when we succeed in plaiting our differences with knowledge
and love, this spreads out to be the purpose of our living, and
what nearer to happiness exists in this planet. But we too often
forget the common Mother, our earth , a child of the stars.
Rights are
written in ourselves. We have always known them and we are to
understand sooner or later that our eyes are bleary, and it's
not the sky which is darkened. The day shall come and we shall
overcome, when our eyes'll learn to beget the clear light.
We were given
a coin, when we entered this world: the rights were carved on
one side, the duties on the other. And, what's more, on one hand
the words spoke of freedom, on the other of law. And the two sides
were the same, yet different, not unlike woman and man, white,
yellow and black and all the other colours which mixed together
beget the light of the sun and the moon. And this reveiled to
us the secret we continue to forget, the only true secret that
will make us rich: to spend that coin.
The happiness
we'll be able to build for everyone will be ours for ever.
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1.
'twas a sunny dawn, brother,
when I opened my eyes to the world
when you opened your eyes to the world
every
day, sister,
we sha'll live with reason and conscience:
if that sun mirrors in your eyes
if that sun mirrors in my eyes
born
equal and free
under the same sun
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1 : All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
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2.
All the colours of the world, my love,
on your earthy face
manwoman poorrich and everybody,
every
type of holy every thought
let it have its home in your mind:
mine is different, but it's yours
earth
our homeland
there are many pleasure-domes
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art. 2: 1. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms
set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind,
such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
2. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis
of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the
country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be
independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation
of sovereignty.
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3.
the fish is made of water
he glides along the sea
and doesn't realise he's different
likewise
I'd like my life, which is my gift,
quiet and hurtless 'to glide
along the glimmering water
of time, which is my gift
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3 : Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of
person.
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fool if he ties the flowers
or the sunbeams to your skin
twice
foolish, he gives up the flowers
and twists his skin to tie
the slaves to himself so that
they can't flee or fly
mournful
disgrace
bitter shrewdness:
the chain is so heavy at the two ends!
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4 : No one shall be held in slavery
or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited
in all their forms.
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5.
it's an illusion, we,
we're not separated, and every time
your hand intrudes my skin
it aches inside you
you
don't realise it, my poor
blind man stressing
and exhausting your fellowmen:
but the burst pain, remember,
leavens in thee
and doesn' fly away
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5 : No
one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading
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me
maybe God's spark
otherwise hardly existing
which amazed wanders in the dark universe
but
here on this fragile planet
I are you am we all we are
balls of yarn put in bundles
by man's laws
I
own, I do, I'm in charge of,
I'm a person, then know yourself through me:
the broken mirror can't be used to see
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6 : Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a
person before the law
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7.
like stars in the sky at night:
other colours, different shapes
dots sometimes otherwise li'l circles:
otherwise, yet to the naked eyes, wells and fogs
of amazing light
and
that dark mantle they live in
is the back against which
every shape every radiance stands out:
thanks to that blue-black flame
every star is a star, just like the others
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7 :
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination
to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection
against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and
against any incitement to such discrimination. |
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8.
the scales are treasures: they weigh,
and weighing silently state
every taste and value
do
not hide them in a closet,
the scales: we need them like we need air,
so many things everyday
must be weighed
coloured
scales of various shapes
let them be sown where people wander:
of everything let be weighed
the value and th'taste
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8 : Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the
competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental
rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
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9.
I dress myself in dark sorrow
for their lawless hands
who entered my heart
to steal me my air
to intrude with brambles my tracks
exiled
from life
jailed by the days
oftentimes I have wept in vain
waiting
for the end
I dream of clearer worlds
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No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. |
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10.
to judge is a human charge,
you may be wrong, but it's a must:
yet behind all the people
yet with words not ambiguous
yet grudgeless, opened to truth
to every truth jumping out
to
judge, you need it,
men, grow it true
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10 : Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public
hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination
of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against
him. |
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11.
look, a wrechted enchained dog
instinctively compelled to bark
as someone passes by:
so people say "he's guilty"
when someone is accused
perhaps lividly (and perhaps moreover
when I sinned it was different,
the law I mean)
maybe I made a mistake, don't do the same
all of you
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11 : 1. Everyone charged with a penal
offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty
according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees
necessary for his defence. 2. No one shall be held guilty
of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did
not constitute a penal offence, under national or international
law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty
be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal
offence was committed. |
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inside, deep down, is your essence:
your skin protects you from the world
there
are many layers of skin:
your soul is embraced by your dear ones
your home your life your relations
the opinion people have of you
every
knife which cuts these clothes
scratches you, leaves you naked in the sun
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12 :No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with
his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon
his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection
of the law against such interference or attacks. |
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13.
step after step
that's life's trip
you
pass trough frontiers
nobody stops you
you might be a ghost
or the bars a Morgana
but
the true frontiers lie within
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13 : 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence
within the borders of each State. 2. Everyone has the right
to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. |
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'cause often your home is wounded
by your brother's knife:
you remain naked in the wind
if
such tears happen
it warms your heart, to know
that the planet which hosts you
is like a bigger home
where the exile is blessed
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14 : 1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other
countries asylum from persecution.
2. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other
countries asylum from persecution.
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she he, I you,
the we is a scented skin
clear brown olive-coloured,
it isn't important, red or yellow
only two flowers which are thirsty
from building huts in the earth
two
eyes four
they tear or sparkle
all equally able
to fill themselves with stars
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16 : 1.Men and women of full age, without any limitation due
to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to
found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage,
during marriage and at its dissolution. 2. Marriage shall
be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending
spouses. 3. The
family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and
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17.
I am not what I have
but
my inside needs
an anchor that could be
a shield to the streams
of the stormy sea
a
something material
variegated in shapes
so that I could be firmer:
if you steal my anchor I remain
at the mercy, oh, of the waves
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17 : 1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well
as in association with others.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. |
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the days go by
sweetly or in sorrow
here in the dark earth:
to live them I need a food of mine
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18 : Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion
or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others
and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance.ractice, worship and
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god is my bread
my thoughts every one of them
become blood and flesh
know
it, a different bread,
yet good, starves out
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I say 'cause I think
I think 'cause I am
I
am a human being,
my thoughts are a garland,
my true wealth under the sun:
they feed on words I harvest
I
beg you all, don't wish me
dark poverty
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19 : Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;
this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference
and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through
any media and regardless of frontiers.
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together it is to never lonesome be
to
joy or to shelter
to climb the future
to understand th'time
to play or to pray
to dream with the others
but
forced to a together I'm lonesome, yet
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20 : 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly
and association.
2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
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21.
I breathe every day
a love story for my country
I
require some kisses
I'm heartbroken at her illness
and every cold of hers wounds me:
often we discuss what to do,
even we fight we are jealous,
we're true most of all
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'll say, it's a tiring relation,
it needs heart together with brain:
democracy it's love it is not power
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21 : 1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government
of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
2. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service
in his country. 3. The will of the people shall be the basis
of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in
periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal
suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free
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drone,
queen, or whatever be
the bee works, and the beehive grows
the
juices of earth make th'flowers
grass' flowers make th'honey
and the beehive feeds all the bees
sweet
buzzing it is life's breath
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22 : Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social
security and is entitled to realization, through national effort
and international
co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources
of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable
for his dignity and the free development of his personality |
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to embrace earth and material
with th'mind, love and energy:
here's the work
the good doing man mirrors in
to
grow the greenhorn, I work
to grow my soul, I work:
that's the fruit of the man-tree,
shelter it from the cherry thieves
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23 : 1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment,
to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against
unemployment. 2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has
the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has
the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself
and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented,
if necessary, by other means of social protection. 4. Everyone
has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection
of his interests. |
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like the wave of the sea
which rises like a giant when the streams
make the tempest, and quietly lies down,
a lock which curls th'calmed sea
let
man be like the wave
like breath let him be
like th'sleep which defends us at night,
restores us to the waking
for
the idle one there isn't rest, it's clear
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24 : Everyone
has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation
of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
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the matters of th'world
only this I want,
a humble cape
where I could hide myself
when Cold looks for me
if
needed, just breath
would warm my baby:
give me help, he is
our ladder to future
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25 : 1.Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate
for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including
food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,
and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness,
disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances
beyond his control.
2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care
and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock,
shall enjoy the same social protection. |
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yes, man is rough-barked and hard-skinned
but inside he's a li'l light plant
which brings flowers and fruits
if you love them you look for them
every
plant is a new wonder:
earth of the earth gives roots,
with words of water and thoughts of air
it grows in harmony,
flowers and fruit are love's and wit's fire
build
up the hot-houses for the sacred work,
large and open to the sun to th' moon
in free equality and friendship:
the trouble is lovable
the harvest very plentiful
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art. 26 : 1. Everyone has the right to education. Education
shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.
Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional
education shall be made generally available and higher education
shall be equally . 2. Education shall be directed to the
full development of the human personality and to the strengthening
of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote
understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial
or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United
Nations for the maintenance of peace. 3. Parents have a prior
right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their
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you drink the sun the true sun
and let vitamins enter your body:
yet to grow in might and harmony
art and science they are
soul's vitamins
be
grateful to th' makers:
also thruth and beauty
can become a work
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art. 27 : 1.
Everyone has the right freely to participate
in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to
share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and
material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic
production of which he is the author. |
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"right" is a word
some air which vibrates in the throat
and vanishes in the wind:
that's what the tired and the mighty say
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people of the Earth,
on that white page which is life
draw in order the lines
of the earthy music:
let then every right be
a singing note
of the fresh song by a friendly bird sung
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art. 28 : Everyone is entitled to a social and international
order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration
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one and instead a lot,
many but not identical
rich in love and in choices
like
the old tree
who breathes his sun by ev'ry leaf
and ev'ry wood of his it brings juices
microroots and broad branches
in
law my freedom
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1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the
free and full development of his personality is possible. 2.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject
only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the
purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and
freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality,
public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. 3.These
rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles of the United Nations. |
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30.
there are many sins in the world,
wicked sometimes, e.g.
when you use the truth
to validate the untrue,
when you cheat at life's game
if
this happened to these
words of ours we trust in you:
tear his mask off him, the evil one
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30 : Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying
for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity
or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights
and freedoms set forth herein. |
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