En este silencio

poema_del_tiempo

un budista salió desnudo a las calles
no lleva cuerpo
moja sus raíces en el viento
y transita por el mundo
como una figura de fuego

se me acercó y me dijo:

en este silencio el tiempo
no es muy diferente
al vuelo de una mariposa.

 

 

Poesía Contemporánea

Phantasmagoria

stomach_of_the_sun_poem

He stopped the drugs
to console himself
with the open
lengths of countries
and the silver
fever of mountains
and when he left home
to return to thick everything
and books galloping shadows
fiery in the minute of knowledge,
in the day of life, through the wind
to a place where history
is built with azures
heavy in the hand
because to be born
here I am
like a quartz
inside the stomach
of the sun.

Contemporary Poetry

brizna

poesia_natural

Llovía.
Las ventanas de la ciudad.
En baches flotaban quizá
más y más
los fragmentos de la mente.
Llovía.
Desde las orillas del cielo
se resbalaba una neblina.
Las ruinas del eco
de cada gota.
Fuerte lento y gris;
desde las ventanas de la iglesia
un gran miedo.
La vida hace trenza ultramarina.
La madera bebe y bebe.
En el fondo, un barco
con furia abría sus velas.
Una puerta, y en silencio.
La oscuridad brotaba de modo
extraño del cielo a la tierra
húmeda y sin huellas.

Poesía Contemporánea

They

were sitting on the ledge of a building
talking about the pursuit of happiness,
how every human action is motivated
by self-love and trying to reconcile
morality with a mechanistic view
of a universe, everywhere ruled
and determined by inflexible laws
the talk went on for some time
they would interject a few modern expressions
to avoid falling into a complete anachronistic conversation
reminiscent of the 18th century philosophes
then the one on the right said,
– What if we jump?
– there’d be a fall
– yeah, and then what?
– who knows
– do you think there’s consciousness after death?
– as much as you can find in the drunk man’s sleep
– should we jump? what stops us from finding out?
– fear, our loved ones, the desire to seek new experiences and store them in the insatiable coffins of memory. But mostly fear.
– if you could have anything in the world before you die, what would it be?
– another lifetime to figure that out
– do you often think of death?
– on rare special occasions, like funerals and that kind of thing
– do you find any consolation in the thought of death?
– yeah in the thought that death dissolves all suffering with the same intensity as life withheld happiness from the individual
– I’m going to jump
– I’ll take the stairs

He did not jump but was he really considering it? They decided to go home. As they walked together over the bridge they both noticed the sea was restless that day.

 

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