In the word create, in my ear and in my soul I also feel the sense of growing. Creation is a seed, a fragment that is enriched by continuous overlapping like a grain of wheat which in its growth process becomes an ear. Inspiration and singing are the final qualities of a poet. Inspiration, as mentioned, is an input that gives a verse or an idea and is a very special state of mind in which a poem is written.

The smile of the tulips, a metaphor that modulates the movements of this collection, is entrusted with the dictation of what makes up the poetic investigation of Emilio Paolo Taormina.

Love, death, melancholy, memory, music, the usual listening and immersion in the things of Nature, unfold alongside the "anguish of watches" and the "silence of the high seas", in transit that the poet makes at the edges and at the center of himself, in an inexhaustible composition of words and images, sparks of pure enchantment and small revelations.

This is a poem that tells of joys and shortcomings, certainties and anxieties, of an enchantment in life for Life that persists below perceived reality, as an expectation of new wonders: all enclosed in the mysterious smile of the tulips ( Alba Gnazi).