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Cesar Botetano Nov 2021
The dark wet road reflects the neon lights
Very fast I drive towards the splendorous Dawn
While a poem is emerging from the air
1.1k · Feb 2021
Loneliness
Cesar Botetano Feb 2021
You must re-invent yourself
may your tears turn to sweet dew
that make the leaves of your soul shine



Shhh
Let the wind speak for us



loneliness is not a punishment
loneliness is the sweet companion
that whispers poetry in our ears
722 · Jan 2022
Autumn leaves
Cesar Botetano Jan 2022
the music of crisping autumn leaves under my feet
resembles the sound of the magic forest of my childhood that lives eternally inside me
648 · Nov 2021
Rain day
Cesar Botetano Nov 2021
blurry images through the windshield
uselessly I tried to recognize myself in your gaze
the rain dances with the wind
619 · Mar 2021
It's time now
Cesar Botetano Mar 2021
It's time now
To write
Everything you dreamed of


your beauty is so great
that not even the rain dared to touch you


memories
willows on the path
moved softly by the wind
617 · Mar 2021
as a warm sunbeam
Cesar Botetano Mar 2021
let me wake you up
as tenderly
as a warm sunbeam
entering through your window
Cesar Botetano Jun 2021
many times I wrote your name in the air
in the sand, in the rain, in the evenings
in the end everything was useless
I never saw you again
so as not to forget you
I have your name tattooed on my skin
479 · Nov 2021
A lonely seagull
Cesar Botetano Nov 2021
under the autumn rain
the flight of a lonely seagull
draw the sky

A blade of grass
Descends slowly
And it gets caught in your hair.
455 · Aug 2021
At the end of the day
Cesar Botetano Aug 2021
A pile of books
an unfinished poem
a farewell letter of an everlasting love
they are my only company at the end of the day
385 · May 2022
A long winter
Cesar Botetano May 2022
The kids play in the garden
As the daylight fades between toasts and small talk
I light a cigarette and look at the horizon
I have a feeling this is going to be a long winter.
374 · Feb 2021
whisper of lovers
Cesar Botetano Feb 2021
while the wind stirs the moss on the roof
and a furious rain blinds the windows
the crackling of the burning fire
accompanies the whisper of lovers
372 · Aug 2021
The perfect love
Cesar Botetano Aug 2021
I am wondering about the perfect love
which is the voice of my silence
the soft wind of my wings
and the blue sky of my sea
368 · May 2021
The Medusa of Perseus
Cesar Botetano May 2021
Life is a great spectacle
dance of masquerades
no one dares to show their true face
because if they did
it would be like seeing the Medusa of Perseus
and we would be at that moment petrified
347 · Dec 2021
Please do not take long
Cesar Botetano Dec 2021
The forest that once sheltered us still as lonely as ever
The trees recovered their music with the autumn breeze
I badly need you to survive the next winter
Please do not take long
346 · Feb 2021
Tell me please
Cesar Botetano Feb 2021
my dear
since your departure
everything remains the same:
the leaves have turned sepia this time of year
the crickets lull me at night
and the rain sings on the old roof
just me
I have returned to smoking
Thinking of you
tell me please
How many more dawns will I have to wait for your return?
331 · Aug 2021
Old Melquiades
Cesar Botetano Aug 2021
Melquiades is getting old
but this bright morning
he feels rejuvenated
a beautiful girl offered him her best smile
329 · Mar 2021
this twilight
Cesar Botetano Mar 2021
this twilight resembles a photo color sepia
distant
timeless
poetic
and so painful
because of your absence
328 · Jan 2021
Sadness
Cesar Botetano Jan 2021
Here I am
in the midst of sadness
joining pieces of memories
useless effort
the hours do not retrace their steps
nor is love ever beggared
327 · Jul 2021
under my skin
Cesar Botetano Jul 2021
Smootly flows
my wild nature
made of wind and fire
under my skin
312 · Jan 2021
In the heights of the Andes
Cesar Botetano Jan 2021
In the heights of the Andes
The old shamans or Altomisayoq do not use the I ching
They read the coca leaves
spiritual oracle to access the future
consider that plant
a cosmic seed
fruit of the maximum goddess,
mother earth (Pachamama).
Descending from that holy goddess
They consider that she has the power to cure all ills
And know the destiny of a person.
On a colorful mantle
they throw them to the wind
and they invoke the sacred spirits in Quechua.
Practice as old as reading tea leaves
its origin is lost in the origins of time
312 · Aug 2021
The old days
Cesar Botetano Aug 2021
the old days are gone
together with friends and loves
they live now in your wrinkles and your dreams
but sometimes, not very often
that sleeping tiger that still lives inside you
roar in the wind
300 · Oct 2021
Your beauty
Cesar Botetano Oct 2021
your beauty
has been been the cornerstone
of my poetry all these years of solitude and despair
at the end
your beauty will vanish
like a beautiful misty morning
dissolved by the sun appearing on the horizon
297 · Sep 2022
The blue mountain
Cesar Botetano Sep 2022
summer has entered my window for the first time
children run and laugh in the garden
the mist surrounding the blue mountain is clear
a warm sun is gradually flooding my room
295 · Jan 2022
Like a panther
Cesar Botetano Jan 2022
Stop for a moment
Let the wind carry away your thoughts
open your senses and just feel
like a wild beast
like a panther
about to jump on life and its miracles
288 · Jan 2021
The Return
Cesar Botetano Jan 2021
Beeing separeted from the elements
Beeing separeted from the nature
Away from the storms, the rain and the sea
Was the principle of my decadence
Now after so many defeats
I will return naked and poor
To the very beginning
Tomorrow I will shine together with the sun
283 · Mar 2021
Loneliness
Cesar Botetano Mar 2021
Loneliness walks the streets
Enters a movie theater
Sits on a park bench
Drinks a coffee
Sleeps with you
suddenly one day
you discover yourself in his gaze
270 · Mar 2022
A tiger
Cesar Botetano Mar 2022
I am not but a tiger that roars in the darkness
waiting for your luscious body to appear at dawn.



You only exist in a poem or in a dream
the harsh reality will not take away my dreams
265 · Apr 2021
One april morning
Cesar Botetano Apr 2021
The sun caught in your hair one april morning
Reach to make a poem
And the sea mist creeping up your long legs
It is poetry itself
And what to say about your enigmatic smile
When I touch your skin like the sun does this noon.
264 · Jul 2021
a roll of the dice
Cesar Botetano Jul 2021
gray and foggy noons
but suddenly
by the south part of the city
it insinuates a rainbow
sadness and hope
just like life itself
a roll of the dice
263 · Apr 2022
Like small rain
Cesar Botetano Apr 2022
subtle, like small rain
my heart goes after you
262 · Jan 2021
Unreachable
Cesar Botetano Jan 2021
The truth
stream going upward to a blue mountain
impossible to conceive
impossible to reach
for this, almost all of us live behind masks that hide our essence
disguises that confuse and conceal
and finally make the truth unreachable
Cesar Botetano Sep 2022
Time dissolves like a cigarette in the middle of the night
a bird sings a sad melody somewhere in the forest
the friends who left never came back
the first autumn rains arrived
Cesar Botetano Oct 2021
Mystery,
vast sea in front of my eyes
Revelation,
map granted by my Lord
Yeah
"Fair Winds and Following Seas."
260 · Aug 2021
Under the blue sky
Cesar Botetano Aug 2021
Please dear girl
Rest me on your soft lap
Under the blue sky
Listening the far away murmur of the sea
240 · Feb 2022
I vanish
Cesar Botetano Feb 2022
dancing in the pupils of a new day
smoothly I vanish
among  memories and impossible loves
238 · Jun 2021
Old letters
Cesar Botetano Jun 2021
old letters that I never sent you
letters aged from reading them so much
outside a heavy rain and the sky full of lightning
a served drink and a half-finished cigarette.
the night goes on and the room fills with shadows
one by one I'm throwing the letters into the fire
and while the fire rages
I'm done with the past
tomorrow will be a new day
Cesar Botetano Jul 2021
The wind speaks better than us
Inhabitants of a gigantic Babel
Rain comforts better than any government directive
And the golden rays of the sun are warmer than the best political speech
231 · Apr 2021
In the mist of the woods
Cesar Botetano Apr 2021
In the mist of the woods
Voices are sometimes heard
In some ancient cities
Spirits wander with messages that we cannot understand
We know that there are great and hidden things that have not yet been revealed.
Maybe because we are not prepared to hear them
But they are and exist
The issue is
Will they want to warn us of something terrible that is coming?
227 · Mar 2022
Ithaca
Cesar Botetano Mar 2022
We, from years ago are no longer the same
The years, like capricious winds made us lose our way to our own Ithaca
we finally end up on faraway and strange beaches.
Sometimes the memory of a distant love
comforts us in the midst of so much loneliness
225 · Mar 2021
The blue mountain
Cesar Botetano Mar 2021
The faraway blue mountain
Slowly vanishes in the early mist
224 · Aug 2021
Your name
Cesar Botetano Aug 2021
At twilight
the rumor of the waves
whisper your name
softly very softly
221 · Oct 2021
Your beauty
Cesar Botetano Oct 2021
like a a piece of heaven captured in a dewdrop
so my heart was trapped by your beauty
216 · Feb 2021
Lady Luck
Cesar Botetano Feb 2021
a coin flip
heads or tails
a winning dice roll 7 or 11
five cards and a royal flush is formed
you tell me
maybe lady luck will smile on you tonight
maybe yes maybe no
it's like life itself
many must lose for few to win
215 · Feb 2021
The guardian of your dreams
Cesar Botetano Feb 2021
the dawn and you get together
like the sea and the mist
just like rain and lightning
like the wind and the children's kites
Yeah
the dawn and you come together in my bed
when I look at you sweetly asleep beside me
and I become the guardian of your dreams
214 · Nov 2021
Like a moonbean
Cesar Botetano Nov 2021
Subtle
Like a moonbeam
I caress your bare skin
One april night
213 · Jan 2021
Twilight zone
Cesar Botetano Jan 2021
Life is like a twilight zone
beautiful scenery hidden by a mist
where your sight cannot reach
and you can only trust your heart
205 · Feb 2021
An endless Avenue
Cesar Botetano Feb 2021
An endless avenue
Between heaven and earth
Populated by small passions
Of even smaller beings
Polished by the rain
Doubly empty
Because of your absence
And my loneliness
204 · Aug 2021
The tiger
Cesar Botetano Aug 2021
The tiger of my dreams resembles that other tiger that drinks on the banks of the immense Ganges
sometimes I wonder which one of them should I take care of more
202 · Jul 2021
Contraste
Cesar Botetano Jul 2021
young people with golden skin on distant beaches dance
with the music of the palm trees under the summer moon
while other people shiver under a heavy rain in crowded streets
196 · Apr 2021
Bamboo Stems
Cesar Botetano Apr 2021
You live
Far away
Where dreams and memories dwell
At dawn I look for you there.



This bright morning in May
I wear your love
Like a beautiful carnation on the lapel of my jacket



Your hips
Bamboo Stems
Moving to the beat of the wind
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