something of night

Stepping-stones on an open fall
my limbs remind me of crying cataracts
the fall is unique
relative to some approaching infinity
all my thoughts are grounded solely on the black stream
an overarching view of decay
some inexplicable love wraps the beauty of my despair
trust? there is an absolute leap of faith
relying less on the Goodness of this destruction
more on the emptiness of my command
whatever remains. An option to abort
a compulsory surrender
that carries this night
as a flavor to life.

Nihilistic Poetry

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This site features some of my poetry (including quite a bit of juvenilia), early works in art and photography; among other productions of bliss & despair.

My art website is found at pablosaborio.com

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more heavens

It dreams, sounds, quivers like a barrage

drenched in nostalgia these figuratively unknown

release the hungry words to pillage the earth out of its meaning

left with the questions that have already been answered by

above-the-clouds, silences-drawn-by-the-desert, light-colliding-water;

a definition that can be caressed and departed from

words that came so close to smelling of life

puny insignificancies that were almost a secret under the skin

my hand, these verbs and the kill

pogroms and a consequent silence

I surrender

due to bluest aim

as a truth that defeats

a heaven in me

 

 

piel y ceguera

Sex on the beach

remo
en mar
oscila en lenguas
como sexo deleznable
sobre las angostas lentitudes
de un gemido crepuscular
miro con asombro tu concavidad
mío es el pensamiento que se derrama
sobre el vientre de tu incredulidad
éramos dos hebras de íntima descomposición
haciendo con lo efímero lo que se hace
con la eternidad
destinados a navegar hacia el sueño
guiados por el estrellado zodiaco del orgasmo
al final de un dialogo de piel y ceguera.

 

 

Poesía Moderna

something near

Something Near Life

 

 

and so it was,
poetry: a deliberate madness
serene, thoughtful, full of strange distances
hanging names on the limbs of details
giving sound a place to rest
all things visited from sidelong silences
things: worshipped and often obscuring
the sudden flight of city birds
exactly because my sight was bolted
to that eerie spasm of the sky
the spaces neglected for the general purpose
of a somnolent rain
I speak: world
in order to feel: existence
the challenge of light and above all ideas
pulverized movement near disfigured events
dates as calmly as pulsations
inventing, attempting, redefining
something that enters the invaded dream
  the inundated reality that spears me.

 

 

Nihilistic 
Poetry

entre ventanas

Poeta entre ventanas

El agua golpea como con hinchada necesidad
cada gota un rebelde escapando en ciclo
cargada de días, rutas transatlánticas
mi cuerpo de roca lo lame el mar
pero ni el sol penetra el fondo de esta sombría mirada

si morir fuera observar una repetición infinita
ola tras ola negando algún evento nuevo
sería respirar un sólido aire, una ausencia
aun estando presente en un mundo incomprensible
incubando el final de los animales, los minerales, el espacio

el calor agitando un cuerpo de fórmulas
envidiando la resignada belleza
de la mesa que evapora su color gratuitamente,
el pescador lanza su deseo al salubre hueco
y pesca porque es más difícil que morir

yo lancé un deseo autónomo
por los mapas del mundo;
como si el parpadeo marcara el tiempo
ahora empiezo a imitar una eternidad joven
que escolta a las olas como si fueran las primeras hijas
            de la creación.

 

 

 

Poesía Moderna

old reverberations

my task is very
          simple

observation
untroubled

the battle for
      satisfaction
is over

I’m resting my head on phenomena
like on the exposed
breast of my lover

open eyes
breathing

allowing the world
to play with itself

I move cloudlike
I think rocklike

keeping record of things
for this lost history of the soul

 

Modern Poetry

on a camel

Berber Desert Camel

On a camel
deeper Morocco
sunset soon
near Sahara

there I started
      to feel again,
the beautiful earth
turning in the dream of night;

the stars sailing my mind
all the stars
stars.

staring at the opposite end
   of time

in a tent
Berber land
sun gone
       near the mighty Sahara.

 

Modern Poetry