Poetry in general is beautiful. Poets are geniuses.
Most poems are short with different forms.
I am at awe when I see short poems that have such deep meanings.
Latin American/ Spaniard poets are crafty, enlightening, and idiosyncratic.
I will introduce some Latin American/ Spaniard poets:
Miguel Hernández
César Vallejo
Pablo Neruda
"I call myself clay though Miguel is my name"
- Miguel Hernández
My heart can´t go any longer,
putting up with its love-mad and murky storm,
and it raises to my tongue the blood-filled
noisy thing that weighs it down.
Now my tongue, slow and long, is a heart,
and my heart is a tongue, long and slow...
You want to count up the pain_ Go out and count
the sweet grains of the bitter sand.
My heart cant stand this sadness anymore:
it flies in my blood, along with the floating
ghost of a drowned man, and goes down all alone.
And yesterday, you wrote from your heart
that you have a touch of homesickness-
half for my body, half the grave.
- Miguel Hernández
(translated by Timothy Baland)
"I was born on a day
that God was sick."
- César Vallejo
"And dont bother telling me anything,
that a man can kill perfectly,
because a man,
sweating ink, does what he can, dont bother telling me..."
- Cesár Vallejo
(Transalte by Robert Bly)
"This afternoonn it rains as never before; and I
dont feel like staying alive, heart."
- Cesár Vallejo
A 16-year-old girl who's standing
A 16-year-old girl
who's standing
on the corner of Grand and Miracle Streets
at II in the evening
in a tired little dress
A 16-year-old girl
whos standing like an i
under an arcade
Shes not waiting for a bus
shes not waiting for anyone
its just that at her house
her hungry mother is about die
shed rather be standing there
at II in the evening
in the cold under the Grand Street
arcade.
- Cesár Vallejo
"Let us uncork all our bottled up happiness."
- Pablo Neruda
The Birth
And that's where I'm from, that
Parral of the trembling earth,
a land laden with grapes
which came to life
out of my dead mother.
- Pablo Neruda
(Translated by Alastair Reid)
Memoirs
"Poetry is a deep inner calling in man- from it came liturgy, the psalms, and also the content of religions. The poet confronted natures phenomena and in the early ages called himself a priest, to safeguard his vocation... Today's social poet is still a member of the earliest order of priests. In the old days he made his pact with the darkness, and how he must interpret the light."
- Pablo Neruda