Storms Take Care of the Spirit: A Review
An intense poetry on the value of suffering as a tool for forming the soul. The “ancient boy” of Santocerma faces life with his head held high.
Bibliographic information:
Author: armando Ferrara Santocerma
Year of publication: 2025
genre: contemporary, philosophical, reflective poetry
Evaluation: ★★★★★
Detailed review:
“Storms take care of the spirit” by Armando Ferrara santocerma is an example of writing that combines ethical depth, symbolic value, and pressing rhythm. The author presents us with an emblematic protagonist: the “Ragazz’Antico,” courageous and timeless, who crosses life without filters, enduring real and metaphorical storms as opportunities for growth and truth.
In the verses, existential references and powerful images alternate, presented in a cultured and stratified language. The author distances himself from contemporary, overprotected, and unstable society, where emotions are anesthetized, and invites us to recognize the value of those who choose to face adversity with an open face, without umbrellas or masks. The recurring image of the storm becomes a symbol of experience, transformation, and self-knowledge.
The message is clear: we do not forget the pain, but crossing it strengthens the character, not quietude. The “ancient boy” is thus an archetype of someone who, while remaining vulnerable, remains intact, authentic, and faithful to themselves.
Full text of poetry:
Storms take care of the spirit
(Cantics of Solitude – Dispensation n° 86)
A young girl certain things knows:
The days are all shining
Leave something in the embers of thought
S’illuminan of sun, of wind of passions
That is of flashes of intrepid storms of the mind
Alfine takes on bombs in the drama of life.
Sempress in the comedy and the tragedy
Always innocent inside and of the guilty out of the way,
The first in the Bona Fede, the others in the fur’strata
In the handful of a shapeless cumulation of tin
Without a tail without head without the maliarda soul
Which is disguised in one hundred transgression traps
Gushed into the retrogusts of Fragol’e Mostarda
Of ver’e attempt to the limit of persuasion
Difficult management, of the ordinary as of the unusual
In the graces of Michele, in Mephisto’s Shares
As I dream that the victories fill the pride
Of dried wooden cheats with dusk
While the storms that cure the spirto
Build the roots and solidify the instinct
Dent’un charact