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Author: ALEGRIA, CLARIBEL Matches Found: 203 Alegria, Claribel Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. 203 poems available by this author ÉRAMOS TRES First Line: Era invierno con Last Line: No caben Subject(s): Muerte; Soledad A SMALL COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: Behind you Last Line: And to feel compassion Subject(s): Children; Third World; Poverty ACCOUNTING First Line: In the sixty-eight years Last Line: A shout %a fleck of foam ACHE OF ABSENCE First Line: Oh how my fingertips ache Last Line: And don't find you ALMOST AT THE END First Line: Almost at the end of my life Last Line: Illuminates my speech AMBIVALENCES First Line: The table is cleansed of dust Last Line: And sings %and loses its way AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH First Line: If you claw the mountain day and night Last Line: They've killed another one AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE First Line: Bewildered I accepted %the invitation Last Line: And there'll be a rain of fire %and ashes %and the stars shall fall %upon the earth AND I DREAMED I WAS A TREE Poem Text Last Line: Like steel propellers / they held fast Subject(s): Trees AND I DREAMED I WAS A TREE Subject(s): Peace AND I DREAMT I WAS A TREE Last Line: They held fast AND IF I DIE AND DREAM? First Line: And if I fall asleep and dream that I am dead Last Line: That at last I have awakened %from life's dream? ANTIGONE First Line: I shall bury my brother %though it mean my death Last Line: Without fear %and with love ARACHNE First Line: I have woven with my life Last Line: A threadless spider %lost in its maze ARS POETICA Poem Text First Line: I, / poet by trade, / condemned so many times Last Line: I catch sight of the promised land Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government ARS POETICA First Line: I, %poet by trade, %condemned so many times Last Line: I catch sight of the promised land Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Politics ARTEMIS First Line: You are the triple goddess Last Line: A cradle song %or your sure arrow ATROPOS First Line: Atropos %daughter of night Last Line: And they click along snipping lives %as if they were roses BITE First Line: Sadness is all the sadder Last Line: When I least expect it BUS STOP First Line: Shirt-sleeved %under the steady rain Last Line: The love in your eyes %that redeems me BUTTERFLY First Line: The ceiba no longer exists Last Line: Sent her on her way CARMEN BOMBA: POET Poem Text First Line: Luisa always felt refreshed when she remembered carmen bomba Last Line: To say the verses he composed that day Subject(s): Politics & Government CARMEN BOMBA: POET First Line: Luisa always felt refreshed when she remembered carmen bomba Last Line: Each open window in the neighborhood to recite the verses he had composed that day Subject(s): Politics CASSANDRA First Line: Go, cassandra, %begone Last Line: Cassandra, %it's changing CASTING OFF First Line: Despite %my long conversation Last Line: To conceive myself CEIBA (1) First Line: How was my ceiba tree Last Line: To comtemplate it CEIBA (2) First Line: Next came the river Last Line: And with rapid steps %she disappeared CHALICE AND FOUNT First Line: Suddenly downstream Last Line: Nor do I need to CHALLENGE First Line: Don't set up barriers Last Line: Hurtles toward you CIRCE First Line: Circe is my name Last Line: Some dart would pierce my memory COYOTE First Line: I am navigating through time Last Line: And howl at the moon CROW'S EYE First Line: I am the crow's eye Last Line: Where have all the flowers gone CURTAIN First Line: My footsteps are leading Last Line: That has no more questions DEADLY LEAP First Line: It floated to the floor Last Line: That deadly mortal leap DESIRE First Line: I want to enter death Last Line: Detaching myself %being reborn %intact DESTINIES First Line: We are the furies %the erinyes Last Line: Thrusts us out %refuses us escape DIGRESSIONS First Line: Finally I have realized Last Line: Would be suffocating DIONYSIUS First Line: You remind me of christ Last Line: Of love %and wine DISILLUSIONMENT First Line: I machine-gunned tourists Last Line: Despite all my efforts %the world continues the same DOCUMENTAL Poem Text First Line: Let's you and I be a camera Last Line: My tears, / my obsession Subject(s): Nicaragua; Modern Life; Poverty DOCUMENTAL First Line: Let's you and I be a camera Subject(s): Peace DOCUMENTARY First Line: Come, be my camera %let's photograph the ant heap Last Line: My etcetera country, %my wounded country, %my child, %my tears, %my obsession EROSION First Line: I don't want to see you Last Line: Remains forever %in your pupils ESTELI First Line: Esteli %eastern river %afer forty years Last Line: Esteli %eastern river %you are weeping blood Subject(s): Nicaragua EVASION Poem Text First Line: We were discussing siva Last Line: And pointed to claudio Subject(s): Conversation EVASION First Line: We were discussing siva Subject(s): Peace EVASIONS First Line: Every time %every encounter Last Line: And I return your look EVEN IF YOU GO AWAY, DEATH First Line: I will not call you back Last Line: I will slip into nothingness holding your hand EVERYTHING IS NORMAL IN OUR COURTYARD First Line: In spite of sun EVERYTHING SPEAKS OF DEATH First Line: Everything speaks to me of death Last Line: Why does this poem %ask to be born? FAREWELLS First Line: It's your siesta time' Last Line: Caught in my throat FIGURATIONS First Line: I passed through the mirror Last Line: And into a time without time %I will sink FLOWERS FROM THE VOLCANO First Line: Fourteen volcanoes rise %in my remembered FRANCESCA'S LAMENT First Line: We were entrapped by love Last Line: And callously flung us %into eternal agony FROM THE BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: I have freed myself at last Subject(s): Politics & Government; Self FROM THE BRIDGE First Line: I have freed myself at last Last Line: There's a stench of carrion %surrounding me Subject(s): Politics; Self FRUSTRATIONS First Line: I cannot, my love Last Line: Define you or divine you GALATEA BEFORE THE MIRROR First Line: I've become accustomed these past days Last Line: And for that very reason %I despise you GIVE ME YOUR HAND Last Line: I have to rearrange my time %until I reach you GRANDMOTHER First Line: Time stood still Last Line: And I hurtle into your arms HACIA LA EDAD JURÁSICA First Line: Alguien los trajo Last Line: De enterrarlos Subject(s): Guerra; Problemas Sociales; TiranÍa HAIKU First Line: Day after new day Last Line: Spreads its limbs and sings HAPPINESS Last Line: In all its splendor HAVE PITY First Line: Have pity on our brother Last Line: And bury him as soon as possible HECATE First Line: I am the virgin Last Line: I can consign you %to darkness HERMES First Line: I carry you as a prisoner Last Line: But it's you who cudgels me HURRICANE MITCH First Line: In posoltega %the cemetery exploded Last Line: And lifting their arms %to whom? I AM First Line: I am %that plant with broad leaves Last Line: Gazing with nostalgia %at its fallen petals I AM A SEA GULL First Line: I am a solitary sea gull Last Line: Digging a furrow in the sand I AM NOT ALONE Last Line: Your absence is my company I AM ROOT First Line: More than polished stone Last Line: Than a calm spin in a tomb of water I AWOKE TO THE DAY Last Line: When I am beginning to glimpse %your nearness? I DON'T WANT ETERNITY Last Line: A soap bubble about to burst I GAVE UP MY MASKS Last Line: And the night is the same %and I cannot find you I INVENT YOU First Line: I invent you in the garden Last Line: Would vanish %and you as well I LIKE TO ELABORATE MY THOUGHTS First Line: I like to elaborate Last Line: And see them tremble %before my eyes I MUST LET YOU GO First Line: You, too Last Line: Leave you, finally, alone %with your enigma I'M A MIRROR First Line: The water glistens %on my skin IF I AM BORN First Line: And if I am born Last Line: Or avoid the serpent IGLOOLIK First Line: In igloolik %surrounded by sky Last Line: Between earth %and nothingness IN MEMORIAM First Line: Beneath the neon light Last Line: And she was the rider: was your death INSOMNIA First Line: I say love Last Line: Lacerates my body INTRUDER First Line: Who is that %on the other side of the mirror Last Line: You'll stare unblinking at the wall INVITATION First Line: I don't know what seas rivers Last Line: To a bach fugue INVOCATION TO DEATH First Line: No longer the restlessness Last Line: So as to break the rivet %that fastens me IRA DEMETRAE First Line: Demeter speaks: where kore Last Line: And together we decree %eternal springtime IT CANNOT First Line: Sadness Last Line: And it evaporates IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IN JAKARTA Last Line: The mirror speaks to me %in spanish IT'S TIME NOW TO GIVE UP Last Line: Does not let you %leave me JANUS First Line: I am the unhappiest %among the gods Last Line: The present slips away %without my perceiving it LAMENTATION OF ARIADNE First Line: Don't lose yourself, theseus %return to me Last Line: Sink your roots in me LAST THRESHOLD First Line: One more step Last Line: That takes me to you LAZARUS First Line: Lord, %lord, %why have you revived me? Last Line: I have achieved death %I am eternal LETTER TO AN EXILE First Line: My dear odysseus: %it is no longer possible Last Line: Your discreet penelope LETTER TO TIME First Line: Dear sir LILITH First Line: You freed yourself, lilith Last Line: You felt god %within you LIMBO First Line: I feel good Last Line: All alone %with my dead LITTLE BY LITTLE I DIE First Line: Little by little I die, my love Last Line: And in profile steals away LITTLE CAMBRAY TAMALES Poem Text First Line: Two pounds of mestizo cornmeal Subject(s): Food & Eating; Human Rights LITTLE CAMBRAY TAMALES First Line: Two pounds of mestizo cornmeal Last Line: For five hundred years %and you'll see how tasty it is Subject(s): Food And Eating; Human Rights LOINELINESS AND JULY NINTH First Line: It has no wings Last Line: Where old people stand around %with bluish hands LOVE First Line: With tender fingers Last Line: With my spiny claws MALINCHE First Line: Here I am %in the defendant's seat Last Line: To whom? %tell me. %to whom MASKS First Line: I am all that I was %all I could have been Last Line: To dance my way toward you MATER POTENS First Line: Today the morning began Last Line: Of all my coils MEDEA First Line: Those are not tears %streaming from my eyes Last Line: You tore me out by the roots MERLIN First Line: And I kept travelling on the river Last Line: And I will never tell it to anyone METAMPSYCHOSIS First Line: If there is a return Last Line: A sudden lightning flash MINOTAUR First Line: I am the child of night' Last Line: And silence closed about us MIRROR First Line: The mirror rejoices Last Line: The purple petals %of the orchid MIRROR IMAGE First Line: Why do you insist Last Line: In one magic instant MORTALLY WOUNDED First Line: When I woke up Last Line: And you loved me as well MY CAT First Line: How I envy my cat %who never suffers from insomnia Last Line: Mysterious is my cat. %and I shall never know MY LABYRINTH First Line: My labyrinth is circular Last Line: And drinks me %at every turn MY PARADISE IN MALLORCA First Line: Each night %in my paradise in mallorca Last Line: That each night is peopled with phantoms MY PAST COVERS ME Last Line: Confirms me %and launches me into the future MY SHADOW First Line: I see the first hint of %my shadow Last Line: Your camellia %and a blush fills the sky NARCISSUS First Line: What a pity %narcissus Last Line: Never a dark tear %clouds your eyes NEVER AGAIN First Line: Never again %will I contemplate with you Last Line: That I know you are mine %forever NEW HORIZON Last Line: But I must hurry NEW YORK-MADRID First Line: I don't like this flight Last Line: That I am my own god NO MATTER First Line: No matter you're not here Last Line: And whenever I wish %you revive NOCTURNAL VISITS Poem Text First Line: I think of our anonymous boys Subject(s): Politics & Government NOCTURNAL VISITS First Line: I think of our anonymous boys Last Line: To shake off once and for all %this lassitude Subject(s): Politics NOSTALGIA First Line: I left off being me Last Line: Being us NOSTALGIA 2 First Line: I cease being us Last Line: And emptiness NOT YET First Line: Not yet %I can't go back yet Last Line: Tears your bleeding flesh NOW Last Line: Death has more spark %than life NOW I KNOW First Line: I wandered through the world Last Line: I went searching for you %among the faces OLD AGE First Line: As my future %grows shorter Last Line: Traps me in its nets OLD MOON First Line: My skin is stained Last Line: Darkness begins to enfold me ON THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: It's really nothing Last Line: Bucketful of sands Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism ON THE BEACH First Line: It's really nothing Subject(s): Women's Rights ONCE WE WERE THREE First Line: It was winter with snow Last Line: They are too many to bury ONEROUS WEIGHT First Line: I must open the floodgates Last Line: And leave me my solitude ORPHEUS First Line: Give me your song Last Line: And bewitch him OUTSIDE MYSELF First Line: I stepped outside myself %leaving behind Last Line: And I haven't found it yet PACKING MY BAGS First Line: It's time to think Last Line: Waves that break %on my farther shore PANDORA First Line: What are you doing there pandora Last Line: On which we all can ride PERPLEXITY First Line: What will die with me Last Line: Die in my pupils PERSEPHONE First Line: I opened my eyes as always Last Line: With the absurd desire of other days %to become ivy PERSIAN PROVERB First Line: I planted a tree Last Line: Time turned yellow PORTENTS First Line: And a hurricane wind Last Line: The tracks that light %my way PROMETHEUS First Line: I don't want to live with your ghost Last Line: And I am tied to time %and cannot escape QUEEN BEE First Line: I sailed upstream Last Line: But it flew %it flew RAIN Poem Text First Line: As the falling rain Last Line: Without knowing why Subject(s): Rain RAIN First Line: Life is a downpour Last Line: Until death's wind %cuts it short RAIN First Line: As the falling rain %trickles among the stones Last Line: Because forever, I have loved it %without knowing why REFLECTIONS OF ICARUS First Line: My wings are of wax Last Line: The clouds are my tomb RESURRECTION First Line: I woke up suddenly Last Line: My desert of love %flowering anew RESURRECTION First Line: I lost the little girl %who lived in me Last Line: Time has reversed its course RETURN First Line: There is no rest %thrust out Last Line: To the wings of wax RETURN First Line: How will the return be Last Line: Come, love, let's return %to the future RETURN TO DEYA WITHOUT YOU First Line: I am anchored in the present Last Line: And yet you are not here REVELATION First Line: I walked toward the fruit bowl Last Line: Became word RIVERS First Line: The terrain in my country Last Line: And the sea receives them %and they revive Subject(s): Politics RIVERS First Line: The rivers take down to the sea Last Line: Are the arms of the earth ROAD TO DAMASCUS First Line: I thought that finally Last Line: And now I have grown weary %of asking SADNESS Last Line: Pecked by birds SANTA ANA First Line: I still cannot let go Last Line: I begin to sob SAVOIR FAIRE Poem Text First Line: My black cat doesn't know Last Line: The way I did Subject(s): Animals; Cats SAVOIR FAIRE First Line: My black cat doesn't know Last Line: By a single love %the way I did Subject(s): Animals; Cats SEARCH First Line: If my torch goes out it will be dark Last Line: Will I be alone until death? %each morning I will know it SEARCHING FOR YOU First Line: I went out searching for you Last Line: Useless %you were within me SEIZING HOLD First Line: Seizing your light Last Line: That you'll hold on to me SILENCE First Line: An explosion your death Last Line: After the silence %what SISYPHUS First Line: I climb the slope Last Line: Toward the beginning SMALL COUNTRY First Line: Behind you Subject(s): Peace SMALL COUNTRY First Line: Behind you %a riot of pallid orphans Last Line: To offer ten centavos to a beggar %and to feel compassion SORROW First Line: I wish I could believe Last Line: Our love %will never happen again STILL First Line: I am still chasing after myself Last Line: And though still not admitting it %fearing that encounter SUMMING UP First Line: In the sixty-three years TANKA First Line: This morning %I was fish and I was bird Last Line: The darkness of the sea THE RIVERS Poem Text First Line: The terrain in my country Last Line: And they revive Subject(s): Rivers; Third World; Death THINKING BACK First Line: Alone at lasst %with no masks Last Line: To protect myself %from the stinging hail THIS IS A NIGHT OF SHADOWS Last Line: To burst with rage %but it sprouts wings THOUGH IT ONLY LASTS AN INSTANT First Line: Now, while the obsidian river Last Line: You are with me TIRESIAS First Line: Tiresias is my name Last Line: Two birds my worlds %two stars TO LOVE YOU AGAIN Last Line: It was necessary to die TODAY First Line: Today your camellia opened Last Line: Will strip its leaves TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE Poem Text First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE First Line: Someone brought them to palma Last Line: Impossible to bury them Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny And Tyrants; War TOWER First Line: I came to the surface again Last Line: But I flew %I flew TRANSIT LOUNGE First Line: What will death be like Last Line: For the passenger in transit TWO WINGS IN FLIGHT First Line: We were a careless Last Line: In repose UNBRIDLED UNICORN First Line: More than the rider Last Line: Your hammer toward the dawn UNCERTAINTY First Line: In what part of the thread Last Line: Will your words %fall into the abyss UNFINISHED RITE First Line: They say death is a solitary thing Last Line: In these my desolate verses UNREACHABLE STAR First Line: I now reject %my narcissus phase Last Line: At the highest point %the unreachable star VOYAGE TOWARD MYSELF First Line: I flee toward myself Last Line: And life %and stand confronting death WE WERE THREE Poem Text First Line: It was winter Last Line: And there are too many to bury Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness WE WERE THREE First Line: It was winter Last Line: I have no country %and they are too many to bury Subject(s): Death; Solitude WHAT WILL OUR MEETING BE LIKE Last Line: Searching for each other %and finally fusing WHERE? First Line: Where did it go Last Line: But my love %endures WHY First Line: Why does this wound Last Line: Still bleed inside me WHY NOT LOVE YOU Last Line: And toward you I travel WOMAN OF THE SUMPUL RIVER First Line: Come with me Last Line: I was hiding in the river %for a long time.' YESTERDAY AT NOON Last Line: Than the whistle of a train YOU ARE ALIVE First Line: You are alive in my breast Last Line: Who transforms our cries into poetry YOU ARE MINE, SILENCE First Line: Now %on my final threshold Last Line: I free myself of you %and yet go with you YOU ARE MY OTHER I Last Line: To overflow it %until I reach you YOU HAVE CHANGED, DEATH Last Line: And my death %in your hands YOU MADE THE GREAT LEAP Last Line: I am left on this shore %crouched to spring |
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