"jorge" poems
*The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today.
Fortunes were smaller then as well.*
(The Elderly Lady)
After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth…
And you learn and learn…
With every good-bye you learn.
{…}
*As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. I mean, why should I think of myself as being an Argentine, and not a Chilean, and not an Uruguayan.
I don't know really.
All of those myths that we impose on ourselves — and they make for hatred, for war, for enmity — are very harmful.
Well, I suppose in the long run, governments and countries will die out and we'll be just, well, cosmopolitans.* --J. L. Borges
Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 10:17 AM UTC
Yes, your childhood now a fable of fountains. - Jorge Guillén
Yes, your childhood now a fable of fountains.
The train and the woman filling the sky.
Your shy solitude in the hotels
and your pure mask of another sign.
It is the sea's childhood and your silence
where the wise windows were breaking.
It is your stiff ignorance where
my torso was limited by fire.
I gave you the norm of love, man of Apollo,
the lament of a crazed nightingale,
but, pasture of ruin, you sharpened yourself
for brief, indecisive dreams.
Thought head on, light of yesterday,
indices and signs of what may be.
Your waist of restless sand
follows only trails that never rise.
But without you your warm soul
fails to understand. I must search
the corners of a halted Apollo
that I've used to break the mask you wear.
There, lion, fury of heaven,
I will let you graze on my cheeks;
there, blue horse of my madness,
pulse of nebula and minute hand,
I must search for scorpion stones
and your mother's childhood clothes,
midnight lament and torn cloth
that wiped the moon from the dead man's temple.
Yes, your childhood now a fable of fountains.
Strange soul of the space in my veins,
I must search for you, small and rootless.
Love of always, love of never!
Oh, yes! I want. Love. Let me be.
Don't cover my mouth, you
who search for Saturn's seed in the snow
or castrate animals in the sky,
clinic and jungle of anatomy.
Love, love. Childhood of the sea.
Without you your warm soul fails to understand you.
Love, a doe's flight
through the endless breast of whiteness.
And your childhood, love, and childhood.
The train and the woman filling the sky.
Not you, not I, not air, not leaves.
Yes, your childhood now a fable of fountains.
7.2k
They set off from white rocks,
red geraniums, blue tile,
and let the green sea
lift and drop their ships far above the white foam waves.
The stony islands that were home
were swallowed in minutes by the hungry Atlantic
but they hunted the big fish,
the giant whales with human eyes
who rolled and sang and swam
in oceans a continent away.
They came from Sao Jorge, Sao Miguel
Faial, Pico, Terceira, Horta -
Nine island emeralds set in a black volcanic chain,
neither of the old country nor the new:
Halfway there and halfway gone -
secret jewels of the Portuguese sailors.
They sailed into unknown waters,
south around tropical shores
where dragons smoked and writhed on the rocks
and birds with brilliant red and yellow plumage
rose in clouds around their heads.
Then north, and north, north again
to colder waters
where sea lions barked and lunged
at the strange massive wooden beast
that coursed the waters,
strung with brown bodies swaying
on the lines and cursing the sails.
North still they swept
casting contemptuous eyes on
the cheap turquoise waters and monstrous slow turtles
of the Sea of Cortez.
Coming up from the desert, past the palms and the yucca,
the Joshua tree and Spanish daggers,
they chased their smooth grey prey,
riding the vast Pacific on their wooden island,
herding the leviathans onto their spears,
adventurers with an audience of only
gulls and sky and seal.
Until they sailed too close one day
to a rock-strewn shoreline
and saw the golden hills.
Gnarled oaks like grandmothers from home
with orange poppy jewels at their feet,
missions strung like beads in a ruby marked rosary.
The boats slowed, ****** in by a Scylla of soil
rich and brown and loamy
waiting to be seeded with grapes and apricots
peaches, avocados, lettuce, alfalfa,
fertile and heavy with sweet promise.
And the whales sang and the lions barked and the gulls cried
but the sailors were entranced, encharmed, ensorcelled.
The treacherous sea, the mysterious deep, the stony jewels of home,
called and wept
and waited in vain for the sailors
- beached and grounded -
cutting not waves but earth,
tracking seasons not whales,
seduced by dirt.
Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 9:51 PM UTC
I’m the excommunicated extra extraditing
your excess excrement, extricating specimens
of your essence getting especially excited
call me the exorcist enlightened,
a devil exercising a frightening
double existence.
Conscious constant resistance
from a heavy conscience that lives in
the conscientious angel hidden
deep within a very contentious prison of flesh
fresh from living a half-life, given a dark light,
splitting apart like I’m shining through a prism.
Divine intuition combined with true sinning.
Pinning down angelic powers devoured in hellish prowess,
Tyler’s now a super-villain.
I’m my own double, troubled my other
call me Jorge Dostoevsky a symbiotic brother.
Mar 31, 2013
Mar 31, 2013 at 5:34 AM UTC
“We love what we don’t know, what it’s lost already…”
Jorge Luis Borges
I hang on to your portrait, in front of me;
among candles, copal, and all those things you worship in a mexican altar to the death.
You are my invisible jaguar,
you appear before me, between dreams, and I fell alive.
Full of wounds,
lacerated by my absence,
I put your portrait in front of the altar that my mind has conceived,
and you seem to hold the paradise's secret in your hands,which are made of ashes.
Then, according to the mexican & catholic tradition,
like a rural priest,
you start to draw a cross, made of the ashes of your magic, sacred hands.
The smell of the whole,
sacred being that exists in this spiritual plane,
lays on your profile, so beautiful embodied in your portrait,
which I prefer above any other reflex.
Finally, when I think on your lips,
is when I stop believing in anything else,
and just keep on holding the devotion that I worship to your portrait...
Then I chase each single one of the naked,
flaccid,
vulnerable memories of you,
trying to protect me.
I think of you,
so profoundly and vividly right now,
that my skin transpires,
bleeds,
my muscles are tense,
and my mouth recites your name with all and its last name.
I wish that, under a supernatural power,
you're also thinking of me, at this precise moment,
and that some thought can touch me below my skirt,
and make the skin of my white buttocks to bristle.
White –Blanca in Spanish-; the name of one of my childhood’s friend.
And the same color of your so polish, european skin.
The rainforest of your sacred Chiapas.
I need you excruciatingly.
Like a dagger into my body.
I will like to see your portrait being devoured by the flames,
but I do not have the courage to throw it to the fire,
for its image will become strongly painted in my mind,
and the effect that you exerts towards me it will be more powerful.
Dangerous.
I had a dream a couple of hours ago,
it was me,
so earthly,
being blessed by your voice,
and the tattoo you have on your left arm, being kissed by my simple mouth.
Our skin,
together,
united,
white,
is the wall where the moon lays on,
Lays in our bodies making love,
in a black hammock,
conjuring with our pneuma to the whispering of the rainforest...
Jan 19, 2014
Jan 19, 2014 at 5:37 PM UTC
sleepy eyes open glimpse high ceiling red wood beams house built in 1920s glance out window tree tops blue skies mountains in distance flock of birds flying east chirping sounds passing car engine accelerates inhale deep breath through nose stretch legs plantar dorsal flex feet raise arms over head stiffness in shoulder feel strange sensitivity in right pectoral above ****** cautiously examine with hands feel coarse lump growing more like nub smell moss glare down at growth protruding from chest panicky by soreness rise from bed to mirror on closet door tree stem jutting out from chest inspect dark bark like calloused growth little leafs budding this cannot be race in nervous tantrum run to bathroom suffer painful weight pulling me down clutching carrying foliated limb with arms see myself in mirror horrified stagger back to bed lie on right side branch resting on mattress breathe anxious breaths reexamine pectoral area feel sinewy roots spreading under skin across chest up neck down over stomach waist legs forget how to get home disorientated nauseous exhausted what is this flora invading me ******* kafka metamorphosis post-modern hyper-real narration without accountability jorge luis borges metaphor without mindfulness fairytale run wild jean baudrillard simulacrum psychosis room now filling with plant undergrowth stinking of earth dirt gooey slugs worms shells bugs festering climbing towards windows voracious for light warmth moisture blocking out morning sun entire body trapped in tangled twisted leafy twigs excruciating pain fright lungs gasping suffocating encroaching darkness fatigue loss surrender wake up 4 AM from nightmare scared to fall back to sleep
Mar 6, 2010
Mar 6, 2010 at 3:45 AM UTC
Nossa Senhora da Aparecida
Na noite te pedi inspiração,
Divulgar teu nome e devoção.
As correntes do escravo Zacarias,
Velas apagadas Tu acendias.
A corrente to rio era muito forte,
O menino Tu livraste da morte.
Aqui em Castanheiro do Norte,
Te pedimos pão e sorte.
A fé em Deus, ele é amor,
Olhai para as vinhas do Senhor,
Ao Jorge e á D. Anita,
Agradecemos a festa bonita.
Victor Marques
Nov 16, 2011
Nov 16, 2011 at 11:18 AM UTC
"Thus fought the heroes, tranquil their admirable hearts, violent their swords,
resigned to **** and to die." – Jorge Louis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths
stoic labyrinthine sparrow-bone;
there is a slalom down your gullet,
bayonet curled around your neck,
you have a beak, you are lusty-smooth,
have rubble for skin, an emaciated infinity:
everything is fractal so eat your words
they are you are your rusty toenails
every footstep is a holocaust there’s
genocide under your neurons,
watch them flex and shiver.
you have soft plastic lips,
there is a vacuum in your gullet,
a box cutter carving
through your adam’s apple:
epileptics are just indecisive,
when they seize hold their tongues
they are their words you are a god
are oppenheimer and shiva,
pick favorites it doesn’t matter
it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter
flex and shimmer we are just neurons
flatlines are not ghoulish nooses,
paraplegics are just cowards,
move with conviction each step
is a genocide, you have wooden
teeth and woolen wings,
thrashes are a velveteen sunset
an edible fog, your stomach
is a stomach do not eat the fog
just know that someday it will **** you
softly and swiftly.
it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter:
infinity is not recursive
alive is not our default state
once is the only route
blood makes the blade holy
if you cut me i will bleed,
i won't blame you just know
you were only ever
that very moment.
May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 at 1:17 AM UTC
On August 31, 2012
at 1:44 PM
Tom bought
Value Meal
VM
Whopper
No Onion
Small Fries
Small Soda
Coke
For $6.27
From Jorge
and then went to the North Village Branch of the Austin Public Library
to check out
Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
Returning it undamaged, unmarked
So I could check it out
At 15:31
On September 7, 2012
Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 3:53 PM UTC
You Learn
After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth…
And you learn and learn…
With every good-bye you learn.
Jorge Luis Borges
Jan 19, 2013
Jan 19, 2013 at 5:03 PM UTC
Geografia I
Quando a Vila Jaiara era do mundo
O centro vital; se mais longe houvesse,
Lá chegara, aos saltos, de susto tomado
Em mim mesmo; silente rezava o missal.
Corria pelos campos – a savana, cerrado.
O medo do sistema heliocêntrico
Ainda não perdera: o medo de ser
Só. Eu vivia com meus irmãos e irmãs –
Éramos uma centena de bichinhos
Em torno de nossa mãe adotada,
A quem chamávamos de Senhora.
E em torno dela, tudo girava, girava...
Os grandes mandavam-nos, sorrateiros,
Andar pelo cerrado em busca de tudo:
Gabirobas, cajuzinhos, goiabas ...
Na Vila Jaiara havia tanta coisa mais.
A casa de Helena; de deuses onde doces.
Que à caminhada tornava clara para nós.
Centro luminoso em que a ceia do Senhor.
Não havia São Paulo ou Rio de Janeiro –
No máximo: Belo Horizonte, Araxá
Povoavam nossos sonhos.
E talvez Ouro Preto e Divinópolis –
Onde Dora reinava...
- Goiânia, São Petersburgo e Tegucigalpa – só no Atlas.
Anápolis era outra estória: a cidade, o comércio longe demais...
Ali na Jaiara estava o centro de tudo
e no centro de tudo o amor:
Laíde Epifânia me nomeara “Maninho”.
Naquele tempo, na nossa vila, não passava um rio.
Mas havia a fábrica de tecidos, onde Jorge –
Noivo de minha irmã – tecia a união e afeto
E me ensinava a andar de bicicleta.
Do Vietnã, só soube no ginásio.
./.
Feb 7, 2016
Feb 7, 2016 at 5:28 PM UTC
Oh, Billy!
rebujando el olor acre
de la tierra
encontraste el dolor esencial
de los amantes.
Matando al guerrero Sartoris
resucitaste la voluntad férrea
de Moisés y su vara,
de Absalón y su escala.
¡Acompáñanos!
porque la novela no ha terminado:
se ha detenido
(un poco)
en el agonizante collado
para labrar la tierra
contigo, con ellos
y los otros
que conocen el misterio
pero apenas lo revelan.
Jorge Gómez Arias
Jun 24, 2012
Jun 24, 2012 at 11:00 AM UTC
Ay, Poesía, pero mira que eres difícil,
aunque busco hallar los cánones que te rigen
termino encontrándome un insondable arcano
que al pensar que me acerco, se hace más lejano.
Eres tan inconsútil, intangible y etérea,
creo atraparte en frases y huyes en la idea;
cuando pienso que avisté la intuición onírica,
me doy cuenta que se ha diluído la lírica.
Tan real cual vida, muerte o la Primavera
te presentas además como una Quimera
que intentamos esculpir en finas palabras,
pero sólo por momentos, ya que te escapas,
cuando por siempre quedamos insatisfechos
al ver que no hilamos el vestido perfecto.
(Jorge Gómez A.)
Jun 19, 2012
Jun 19, 2012 at 7:34 AM UTC
Cada vez que quizás me llamas
me desorganizas la vida.
Cuando ya creía hallar calma
de nuevo el corazón agitas.
Sé que todavía no entiendes
que sin querer causas dolor
porque lo que tú ahora sientes
es incomparable a mi amor.
Pretendes volver amistad
lo que fue profunda pasión,
mas yo aún no puedo cambiar
aquella tierna sensación
que tú persigues separar
de lo que es de cierto el amor,
justo entre mujer y varón.
Tú no cedes, y yo tampoco
tal que así seguirá la vida
y me traerás como loco
cada que me llames o escribas.
Jorge Gómez A.
Jun 22, 2012
Jun 22, 2012 at 7:17 AM UTC
Vamos a gozar el sol
distribuyendo sus rayos
como los abrazos tiernos
de la amada
que hacen olvidar penas
o pesares de la jornada.
Disfrutemos el verano
lo mismo
que gozamos el inverno
cuando las gotas de la lluvia
ayudan a crecer los barbechos.
No nos quejemos de la pobreza
cuando creamos
que ella consiste
en a falta de dinero.
Condolámonos más bien
de la miseria
cuando está en la falta de valor
en el alma
para enfrentar cada día
penosas tareas.
Corramos más bien
a disfrutar del nacimiento
y renovación de la mañana
cuando se llena de colores el alba,
no sea que nos suceda
como a aquel que sólo desea
atesorar riqueza:
pierde el gusto por lo elemental,
pues tiene la creencia
en que todo se consigue
con algo de metal;
se le olvida que lo esencial
es tener un poco de pan en la mesa
y, al menos, el agua viva
del fresco manantial.
Vamos a gozar el sol o el invierno
sin imprecaciones
para el uno o el otro
porque ellos siempre
igual llegan
para pobres o poderosos.
(Jorge Gómez A. Julio de 1994)
Jun 20, 2012
Jun 20, 2012 at 12:56 PM UTC
La canción que ardiente me sale del alma
no es nunca sólo canción desesperada,
es más bien una canción enamorada
que al cantar, Maluriposa, busca calma.
Las palabras que surgen a raudales
por el cerco de mis dientes y mi boca
son unas formas que parecen muy locas
y buscan, Primavera, exorcizar males.
Las reflexivas expresiones que tengo
y que salen, Preciosa, pensando en ti,
intentan, de algún modo, ponerle fin
a toda esta enorme invasión de lamentos.
Los términos que dicta la fantasía,
traídos de imaginación o conciencia
son vocablos que llaman a la paciencia
y no al enojo, querida Luz del Día.
Mas las voces también son ecos de ausencias
en las que sin sosiego alma y cuerpo esperan
tener un encuentro a la luz de las velas
para que alejen fatigas e impaciencias.
Voces formadas por amor y deseos
para que cuando la linda Mariposa
sea atrapada en la prisa de las cosas
no olvide que abrazar su cintura quiero.
(Jorge Gómez Arias)
Jul 9, 2012
Jul 9, 2012 at 10:07 AM UTC
He's the son of the wind and the ocean
I'm the son of the mountains and the trees
The water is his element and i, the earth
His cool demeanor made the rock beneath me
Melt becoming quicksand
******* me into the cold, dark ground below
When he comes close,
Everything feels right
When he touches my skin,
Tremors appear like the remnants of earthquakes
When he says my name,
The mountains recede,
And the birds sing brighter
But the geography does not align
Alas, the mountains will never move
To meet the ocean
Only the wind from coastlines
Can meet with the canopies of the trees
But, the waters cannot flood the summit
and, thus, we can never be.
Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 7:25 AM UTC
Cada uno va caminando por la vida
tratando de resolver su dolor;
sanando su ardiente herida
se olvida del futuro
y anhelante ardor.
El pensamiento volando ingrávido
cual mariposa temerosa
en busca de luz tenue o fugaz.
escapándose cuando el corazón es frágil
movido por vendavales de temor
o mares de calma o seguridad.
A veces piensa porque vive,
otras, vive porque piensa
sin recordar
que la circunstancia lo asiste
para vivir la vida
en el minuto
que pertinaz resiste
los arteros golpes de la aflicción
o se alegra
con la elemental felicidad del día.
Jorge Gómez A.
1978
Sep 27, 2013
Sep 27, 2013 at 12:41 AM UTC
The smell of coffee
The laughter of the early shoppers
Classic love songs
An open window
Sunrise
The sound of the birds
mingles perfectly with the rough
sound of the motorcycles and the waves
The morning sky
The excited tapping of flip flops
The local paper boy
A crumpled bed
Fresh bread
"Hey Marianna! Come down and
have some coffee! I got a new
story!" There goes my neighbor Old Jorge
Messy morning hair
The noise of the wooden stairs
Wrinkled night shirt
Sunny side up
Wild Rice
Listening to old Jorge's classic
story for the 67th times while
breathing in the morning sea breeze
The yellow butterfly
The ringing of the church bell
A smiling passerby
An old bicycle
A kiss
"Morning Marianna!"
There goes Karla in her denim shorts
and long legs and sweet smile and pretty nails
The playing kids
The old lady with a sprinkler
The swaying green leaves
Lazy golden retriever
Pretty girls
Ah! If I could grab the
whole world in the palm of
my hands and keep it in my pocket..
Jan 11, 2013
Jan 11, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
TWO ENGLISH POEMS For A Woman
I.
The useless dawn finds me in a deserted streetcorner; I have outlived the night.
Nights are proud waves: darkblue topheavy waves laden with all hues of deep spoil, laden with things unlikely and desirable.
Nights have a habit of mysterious gifts and refusals, of things half given away, half withheld, of joys with a dark hemisphere. Nights act that way, I tell you.
The surge, that night, left me the customary shreds and odd ends: some hated friends to chat with, music for dreams, and the smoking of bitter ashes. The things my hungry heart has no use for.
The big wave brought you.
Words, any words, your laughter; and you so lazily and incessantly beautiful. We talked and you have forgotten the words.
The shattering dawn finds me in a deserted street of my city.
Your profile turned away, the sounds that go to make your name, the lilt of your laughter: these are the illustrious toys you have left me.
I turn them over in the dawn, I lose them; I tell them to the few stray dogs and to the few stray stars of the dawn.
Your dark rich life…
I must get at you, somehow: I put away those illustrious toys you have left me, I want your hidden look, your real smile –that lonely, mocking smile your mirror knows.
II.
What can I hold you with?
I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the ragged suburbs.
I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon.
I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghost that living men have honoured in marble: my father’s father killed in the frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs, bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow; my mother’s grandfather –just twentyfour- heading a charge of three hundred men in Perú, now ghosts on vanished horses.
I offer you whatever insight my books may hold, whatever manliness humour my life.
I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.
I offer her that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow – the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.
I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.
I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself.
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 6:47 PM UTC
You told me, "It's over..." again. I know that, Jorge... It's been over.
You know that and I know that.. And of course...
You know I know that.. So who was the validation for?
Let me ask and pretend I don't already know who..
Let me ask and pretend like you'll tell me the truth...
The truth that I already know with every fiber of my being..
The truth you know is the truth, but will NEVER have the guts to tell me...
Let me ask who has been taking your time..
& doing such a GREAT job keeping ME off your mind...
& let me go ahead and pretend
To believe all the lies
that escape your lips then,
like rain from clouds, so effortlessly... so naturally...
Jorge, it's true.. ignorance IS BLISS..
So I beg you, for my own sake, let your lies fall all around me,
All the while,
I'll dance in them proudly
and FOOLISHLY..
Because I HONESTLY believed
You. Were. Mine.
& please love, don't stop.. Until I'm drowing in THIS...
In my last Moments -
leave me.. Like you've done every time...
To sink.. Like an anchor carrying the weight of the world, deeper..
and deeper.. and farther away from the surface..
Still too blind in love to even notice...
That I'm the only one WHO
is wasting away... all the days in my own life...
But I'm still seeing visions of YOU...
So I believe that I'm fine...
Even though you've proven you will never BE..
here - to stay - by my side..
The ludicrous hopes in my simple mind...
Absurd, are so pathetically con-vinced;
It. Will. Be. Different.
... this time.
It never has been. It never is.
I know, I know, I know this...
& yet... Despite...
I still think you'll come back & save me..
Cause you wouldn't just let me die,
right?
Although my love - you did.. Let me die like this..
Time and time and time again...
I'll gladly die this way - it's my life to spend -
drowning, figuratively, a hundred, a thousand, a million more times...
Until then,
The beat of your heart is ENOUGH,
to keep my feet above your falling words, but they rise...
Dancing in my own death, So in LOVE...
Ignorantly.. pretending
I believe all your lies.
Oct 20, 2018
Oct 20, 2018 at 9:23 PM UTC
Fue Cervantes quien relató con su pluma sabia
la extraña historia de dos amigos florentinos
que por amor forzaron sobre sí la desgracia
al maniobrar con impertinencia y desatino
en el ánima de una recogida muchacha.
El esposo con el amigo la puso a prueba
pidiéndole que a su mujer hiciera la corte
sin prevenir el impertinente a dónde lleva
la duda cuando no cuenta con ningún soporte.
Y el que pretendía sólo simular amor
para satisfacer al esposo empecinado
y comprobar de la mujer lealtad y honor,
termino, al fin, de sus virtudes enamorado.
De tal modo que el marido quiso probar la honra
colocándole acechanzas a la castidad
de aquella desprevenida y sosegada esposa,
las que fatalmente minaron su voluntad.
Lo que comenzaron como una prueba fingida
terminó en calamitoso engaño verdadero
porque quien pone trampas a la luz y la vida
termina transitando por oscuros senderos.
(Jorge Gómez A.)
Jun 21, 2012
Jun 21, 2012 at 5:22 PM UTC
FOR: JORGE GUZMAN
I'm glad you took everything that would remind me of you.
Cause I don't want to remember anything we went through.
I don't want to remember your laughter, your face..
Or how you ripped out my heart and left a hole in its place.
I don't want to think about how easily you left.
Or wonder why I am forced to, when you can so easily forget.
I don't want to feel lonely just because you're not around.
I wish I too could quickly find someone else to help me not feel down..
But I haven't and it feels like the world is crushing my chest.
Words can never explain just how much I'm depressed...
How could you hurt some body who loved you so much??
I would have done anything for you! How was that not enough?...
Now it's back to square one.. Alone and in pain, too...
And still... I hope what you did to me... NEVER happens to you...
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016 at 3:39 AM UTC
Volver a los lugares
donde el tiempo
parece no haber pasado.
Los rostros aún reflejan
el cansancio de la tarde
o la desolación
de recuerdos que viajan.
Son las esquinas
de los parias
que conocieron días
de luces fugaces
y se quedaron ahí
en las milongas y los compases.
Mas son también los lares
donde muchas noches,
ebrios de poesía y arte
buscábamos los caminos
del pensamiento
y con el ingenio
eternizábamos la fugaz tarde
Los cubículos siguen allí,
aunque han cambiado los nombres;
se han ido los bohemios,
los soñadores y los danzarines,
pero, ¡oh, gran dolor!,
sólo quedan suspicacias de malandrines.
No se siente, sin embargo,
la dolorosa nostalgia
de los tiempos idos;
los momentos fueron grandiosos
y muy vívidos,
mas como ahora
ha llegado la primavera,
el sol sigue brillando
y las estrellas, cantando.
(Jorge Gómez A. 1992)
* Carabobo es una calle del antiguo Medellín.
Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 9:32 AM UTC
FORGETFULNESS
They say
it’s in the brain
where you can feel
the pain.
But when I sense
the rain
it is in my soul
where I feel
the distress.
Affliction comes
because of your
forgetfulness
but I’ll try
to get on my feet again.
(Jorge Gómez A. 26 de Julio de 2013.)
Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 9:43 AM UTC