Showing posts with label bilingual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bilingual. Show all posts

Monday, February 23, 2015

La maravilla

Dizzying height and misty wilderness
Two leather-shod feet rest upon the precipice
As far as the eye can see
Indecipherable, breathless winds tickle
The tops of the soft evergreen tufts
Fear, the friendliest emotion
Shakes the hand of the sojourner
With firm, sweaty grip and
Brief and knowing smile
Down!
Diving like a sea-hawk, glimmering with salt
Crystals form around the corners of her mouth
Leaving faces living in the light of all but rainbows
To know the way is an unbearable weight
Piles of shouldered boulders follow the path
While the lost float away languidly with the clouds
Ay!
Conociendose es mejor
Que ser anonimo pero
Todas se pierdan una vez mas
Los numbes y los rios juegan, una cancion
De dolor profundo y suenos llenos de agua
Y nunca me voy a conocer
Un barco me arrastra
Hasta el trono de diamante
La silla, la casa
Encontrando cuerpos muertos de
Estrellitas y sonries

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Ser mujer

Ser mujer es tener poder de
Liberar o esclavar
La mujer da vida al mundo
Y continuamente agarra
Agarra los rios y las rayas de la luna
Escala todos lugares altos
Con cuerdas hechas por
Luz e hierba

Friday, February 13, 2015

En voz alta

Cries of longing slither forth from every open mouth
Alike, the lips of whores and virgins
Find utter homelessness a home
The heart palpates ever too weakly
To convey the deepness of the pain

Afraid to shed the armor of cotton and silk
Tongues are bitten; epicardiums fortified
Silencio las conquista con fuerza maxima
Pero las calladas gritan mas que las locuaces
En voz alta

"Be seen and not heard"
But they are denied the pleasure
Of being known behind the cemented visage
Trees planted for those uprooted don't make
Sufficient penance for the bereft oxygen

Haplessly halved hornets' nests thrive
In their be-splitted state of lobotomy
The connective tissue contains the buzzing tales
For woe and glory promise wholeness