viernes, 29 de enero de 2010

Las nueve

Las nueve
de Federico García Lorca

Azul sin sangre.
Aire de tercipelo.
¡Oh amiga mía!
Podemos
bajar la cisterna del corazón,
podemos
por el río de las palabras
llegar a la isla del beso.
Podemos
hundirnos en el olivar
sediento.
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Podemos olvidar que existimos.

Puedo olvidar que te quise.

Puedo abandonar un pasado que sólo logra tumbarme de rodillas.

Podemos negar. Podemos negar.

sábado, 23 de enero de 2010

Amor

Amor
de César Vallejo

Amor, ya no vuelves a mis ojos muertos;
y cuál mi idealista corazón te llora.
Mis cálices todos aguardan abiertos
tus hostias de otoño y vinos de aurora.
Amor, cruz divina, riega mis desiertos
con tu sangre de astros que sueña y que llora.
Amor, ya no vuelves a mis ojos muertos
que temen y ansían tu llanto de auroral
Amor, no te quíero cuando estás distante
rifado en afeites de alegre bacante,
o en frágil y chata facción de mujer.
Amor, ven sin carne, de un Icor que asombre;
y que yo, a manera de Dios, sea el hombre
que ama y engendra sin sensual placer!

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Amor, si regresaste a la vida de César, ¿podrías también regresar a la mía?

Prometo, esta vez, no tratarte como la última ocasión que me visitaste, prometo no culparte de nuevo por mis desventuras, prometo no mentir. Prometo amar sin sentirme culpable.

domingo, 10 de enero de 2010

Daddy

Daddy
by Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time--
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
Are not very pure or true.
With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You--

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not
Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I'm finally through.
The black telephone's off at the root,
The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two--
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

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Hay que dejar ir muchas cosas para poder seguir adelante. Hay que poder dejarlas ir sin que nos pese demasiado el hacerlo o no se puede seguir porque siempre se voltea hacia atras a ver lo que se abandonó.


Pronto, y sin darse cuenta, uno sigue adelante y como un suspiro todas las ilusiones y los sueños vanos se evaporan y no hay más dolor.


Ese día llegó. Y soy libre.