Author: Pablo Saborio

Tautology

For poets make sad mechanics with their lyric lore
– Byron

tautology_lyric_poetry_byron

A rock is heavy
hard supposedly static
with jagged edges
and deaf surfaces
like a stone or a pebble
in fact they are the same thing

language is light
flimsy supposedly manifold
with soft melting angles
and loud exteriors
like a concept or a word
in fact they are the same thing

poetry is buoyant
insubstantial supposedly spontaneous
with brilliant measures
and reiterative layers
like a sadness or a depth
in fact they are the same thing

 

 

 

21st century Poetry

barely begun poem

new_poetry

I have a street and no metaphor
a layer of moonlight but
no tremulous..

This is a street and
not a metaphor
not a shivering slate of moonlight

I’ve seen my street bare without metap..

The street is cold without metaphor
drenched in the shudder of moonlight

This street is devoid of metaphor
a meaningless stretch of cold trembling
moonlight

I have a street but without metaphor
even tho I’ve left a ripple on its moonlight

A street sleeps without metaphor
moonlight awake floating away like a trembling mist

these streets are meaningless without metaphor
the light of the moon is afraid but isn’t visibly shaking

A street has no meaning and cannot be a metaphor
because it’s drowning in the yellow of its moonlight

I walk upon a street and find no metaphor
half of its moonlight has been wasted on rats

This street has an absence of metaphor
because moonlight is nothing but the light of the moon

Upon a street I walk without a metaphor
all the while thinking that the moonlight
is the simile of a smile

The street is empty; empty of metaphor
only a light is seen and it’s not from the moon

A street is a place where nobody cares for metaphors
and the moonlight is a spot you leap over

Somehow this street lost its metaphor
but I found the moonlight tattooed on my skin

A street is no metaphor
and a poem is not moonlight

 

 

21st century Poetry

en el parque

poesia_Absurda

En el parque
el minuto empieza
inmenso

la luz terrestre
se destiñe de su objeto
la luz terrestre
es una bella máscara
para la dimensión

una paloma
reinventa el vuelo
dejando una memoria
atorada en
el aire

pasa el minuto

las nubes
se deslizan
sobre mi cabeza
como ideas
sin rumbo

 

Poesía Contemporánea

Miserere mei, Deus

poetry_of_solitude

You sit
by the bus stop
and study the event
it’s a place
where you’ve cycled
innumerably     a place
where you sit
and watch the light
dissolve in the liquid
of your eye
you’re there because
you don’t know where to be
you’re there because
you’d like to witness
the event
and you see things happening
once and units of behavior
he was speaking to me
through a cloud of thought
through a wind of misery
through a vapor of memory
through a rain of laughter
he was another
man far away from everything
another or other man
another star failing in the dark
another strand of conscious throe
a man from denmark
in the glow of streetlight
toasting and talking spanish
transmitting his monad of sadness
and everything being faraway
like a flash above
our private picture of
solitude.

21st century Poetry

 

tabula rasa

¿Qué especial privilegio tiene esta pequeña vibración de nuestro cerebro que llamamos ‘pensamiento’ para que tengamos que constituirla en patrón y modelo de todo el universo?

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume

poesia_moderna

 

¡el tamaño de su biblioteca!
sentí celos y le di cabeza al asunto
claramente todo estaba apurado
desde que tenemos consciencia
de que el tiempo atrapa todo
de que comprime los eventos
de la historia y biografía
en un nudo que nadie loga descifrar
el tiempo es terrible pensé
pero pronto volví a ver los libros
de colores mate rojos verdes grises
abarcando siglos antologías metafísicas
líneas geométricas fuerzas físicas
líneas prístinas de poesía
líneas genealógicas de héroes
líneas de líneas en párrafos de párrafos
todo lo que sabemos de todo
de lo que podemos saber
describiendo anotando explicando
el fenómeno incomprensible de la vida
en un planeta único y efímero,
miraba volumen tras volumen
el olor a madera me mareaba
y el dueño con su risa
espantosa sus labios púrpuras
de vino y vicio
y hablábamos del pensamiento
como si fuera un instrumento prehistórico
hablábamos del humano como si fuera apenas
un lunar en la piel del universo
hablábamos de la muerte como si fuera
la única verdad que vale ser contada
fui al baño
hubo silencio
y sentí una cierta felicidad
al no poder entender
de que se trata
esta vida.

 

Poesía Contemporánea