Tag Archives: Writing

SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit … Continue reading

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THE POET

Until the poet is required to be At one in Apollo’s sacred sacrifice He stays within modern worries Remaining quietly preoccupied; His Holy Lyre remains silent; A soul tasting of a dying song, Within our insignificant world Perhaps, he too … Continue reading

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IMMORTAL SPIRIT

Immortal spirit, voice of my fertility, Light my flames with virile enthusiasm, Transform into her words the cynicism That punish peoples everyday vitality!

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THE POETRY – LA POESÍA

And it was at that age ….. came the poem looking for me. I don’t know, don’t really know where it was, winter or stream. No I don’t know how or when, no, it wasn’t voices, was not words, not … Continue reading

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EVERY TIME I THINK OF A THING, I BETRAY HER

Every time I think of a thing, I betray her. Just having a thing before me I must think of her. Not thinking, but seeing, Not with a thought, but with the eyes. A thing that is visible exists to … Continue reading

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