Poesia di Pia Deidda "Gli ingegneri si scelgono" tradotta in inglese

Gli ingegneri si scelgono 

Alarm clock rings

- digital mechanisms -

it's time to get up, love 

Turn on the light

- Ohm's law - 

I get up first 

I make you coffee

I put the coffee pot on the stove

- Boyle's law -

I turn on the computer 

Let's see if there's mail this morning

- binary systems 

 for cyber travel -

Stop for a moment, love 

I have to go 

Where are the car keys?

- diesel engine -

Engineers are not poets 

but they design real spaces 

where people live. 

Engineers are not artists 

but they build worlds 

both functional and rational. 

But one chooses engineers, 

eccentric partners 

always ready to remind them 

that motor rhymes with heart. 

And they marry 

bizarre poets who, 

with their flights of fantasy, 

make their meticulously built world 

a little more unpredictable. 

And one day, waking up, 

they notice 

that they themselves 

have become poetry. 

 © Pia Deidda (2007) 

 Translated into English in 2025 for the course "English with Giulia"

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