Te quiero - Mario Benedetti

Tus manos son mi caricia 
mis acordes cotidianos 
te quiero porque tus manos 
trabajan por la justicia 

si te quiero es porque sos 
mi amor mi cómplice y todo 
y en la calle codo a codo 
somos mucho más que dos 

tus ojos son mi conjuro 
contra la mala jornada 
te quiero por tu mirada 
que mira y siembra futuro 

tu boca que es tuya y mía 
tu boca no se equivoca 
te quiero porque tu boca 
sabe gritar rebeldía 

si te quiero es porque sos 
mi amor mi cómplice y todo 
y en la calle codo a codo 
somos mucho más que dos 

y por tu rostro sincero 
y tu paso vagabundo 
y tu llanto por el mundo 
porque sos pueblo te quiero 

y porque amor no es aureola 
ni cándida moraleja 
y porque somos pareja 
que sabe que no está sola 

te quiero en mi paraíso 
es decir que en mi país 
la gente viva feliz 
aunque no tenga permiso 

si te quiero es porque sos 
mi amor mi cómplice y todo 
y en la calle codo a codo 
somos mucho más que dos.

He llegado aquí _ Nezahualcoyotl

 

Nezahualcóyotl

He llegado aquí

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He llegado aquí, 
soy Yoyontzin.
Sólo busco las flores,
sobre la tierra he venido a cortarlas.
Aquí corto ya las flores preciosas,
para mí corto aquellas de la amistad:
son ellas tu ser, ¡oh príncipe!,
yo soy Nezahualcóyotl, el señor Yoyontzin.

Ya busco presuroso
mi canto verdadero,
y así también busco
a ti, amigo nuestro.
Existe la reunión:
es ejemplo de amistad.

Por poco tiempo me alegro,
por breve lapso vive feliz
mi corazón en la tierra.
En tanto yo exista, yo, Yoyontzin,
anhelo las flores, 
una a una las recojo,
aquí donde vivimos.

Con ansia yo quiero, anhelo
la amistad, la nobleza,
la comunidad.
Con cantos floridos yo vivo.

Como si fuera de oro, 
como un collar fino, 
como ancho plumaje de quetzal,
así aprecio
tu canto verdadero:
con él yo me alegro.

¿Quién es el que baila aquí,
en el lugar de la música,
en la casa de la primavera?
¡Soy yo, Yoyontzin!,
ojalá lo disfrute mi corazón.

Alegraos - Nezahualcoyotl

Alegráos con las flores que embriagan,
las que están en nuestras manos.
Que sean puestos ya 
los collares de flores.
Nuestras flores del tiempo de lluvia,
fragantes flores,
abren ya sus corolas.
Por allí anda el ave,
parlotea y canta,
viene a conocer la casa del dios.
Sólo con nuestras flores
nos alegramos.
Sólo con nuestros cantos
perece vuestra tristeza.
Oh señores, con esto,
vuestro disgusto de disipa.
Las inventa el dador de la vida,
las ha hecho descender
el inventor de sí mismo,
flores placenteras,
con ellas vuestro disgusto se disipa.

Style - Charles Bukowsky

“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art

Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.
Or sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Jesus
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.”

So You Want To be a Writer- Charles Bukowsky

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 for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

Arte Poética- Jorge Luis Borges

Mirar el río hecho de tiempo y agua 
y recordar que el tiempo es otro río, 
saber que nos perdemos como el río 
y que los rostros pasan como el agua. 

Sentir que la vigilia es otro sueño 
que sueña no soñar y que la muerte 
que teme nuestra carne es esa muerte 
de cada noche, que se llama sueño. 

Ver en el día o en el año un símbolo 
de los días del hombre y de sus años, 
convertir el ultraje de los años 
en una música, un rumor y un símbolo, 

ver en la muerte el sueño, en el ocaso 
un triste oro, tal es la poesía 
que es inmortal y pobre. La poesía 
vuelve como la aurora y el ocaso. 

A veces en las tardes una cara 
nos mira desde el fondo de un espejo; 
el arte debe ser como ese espejo 
que nos revela nuestra propia cara. 

Cuentan que Ulises, harto de prodigios, 
lloró de amor al divisar su Itaca 
verde y humilde. El arte es esa Itaca 
de verde eternidad, no de prodigios. 

También es como el río interminable 
que pasa y queda y es cristal de un mismo 
Heráclito inconstante, que es el mismo 
y es otro, como el río interminable.

Dinosaurio, We - Charles Bukowsky

se comprende que se buscaba la poesía de habla hispana, pero me atrevo a incluir algunos poemas de Charles Bukowsky por lo que significa para mí y la persona a la que va dedicada esta antología


Dinosauria, We



Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break
As political landscapes dissolve
As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree
As the oily fish spit out their oily prey
As the sun is masked
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Born into this
Walking and living through this
Dying because of this
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Because of this
Fooled by this
Used by this
Pissed on by this
Made crazy and sick by this
Made violent
Made inhuman
By this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bomb
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
We are born into a government 60 years in debt
That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
And the banks will burn
Money will be useless
There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets
It will be guns and roving mobs
Land will be useless
Food will become a diminishing return
Nuclear power will be taken over by the many
Explosions will continually shake the earth
Radiated robot men will stalk each other
The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms
Dante's Inferno will be made to look like a children's playground
The sun will not be seen and it will always be night
Trees will die
All vegetation will die
Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
The sea will be poisoned
The lakes and rivers will vanish
Rain will be the new gold
The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition
The petering out of supplies
The natural effect of general decay
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
Born out of that.
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter