Maria Tosti: Tanka (for Woman Scream Festival)

child brides

in their innocent eyes

copious tears

of stolen childhood

only muted screams

Maria Tosti is an Italian author from Perugia.

Her literary debut was with a multilingual poetry book in 2014. She likes various forms of poetry but she's particularly interested in short poems, in Japanese style, and also likes creating visual poems thanks to her passion for Photography and Drawing. Many of her literary and artistic works have appeared in various national and international literary journals, magazines, blogs, websites and anthologies around the world.