Poesias
Sab Feb 09, 2008 9:39 pm
[ Animo: Con sueño ]
[ Actual: Leyendo La joven de la perla - Tracy Chevalier ]
Estoy bastante cansada. No es de extra;ar, en realidad. Pero bueno...
Haciendo limpieza encontre las viejas poesias que estudiaba en la UNAM, en Letras. Una de ellas no la olvido, siempre ha tenido mucha influencia en mi. Pero la otra la habia olvidado ya. Esa la dejo aqui solo por eso, hasta el final (Song). La otra... digamos que me ha llamado mucho por algo ultimamente.
A veces se abandona a las personas que se quiere. Por mil y un razones. Pero... lo triste es que tarde o temprano esa otra persona termina pensando en varias cosas: a) que se es una amiga de temporada, util de tener como amiga cuando se necesita b) que el/la amigo/a en realidad no es tal c) que erroneamente se esta pensando en el cari;o como en una barra de chocolate.
Y para mi, aunque puede tener otro sentido, esa poesia se refiere a la perdida de una amistad. De una amistad profunda, hermosa. Pero que ha dejado de existir por falta de trabajo o por falta de interes (que a fin de cuentas vienen a ser lo mismo).
One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent,
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Song
Adrienne Rich
You're wondering if I'm lonely:
OK then, yes, I'm lonely
as a plane rides lonely and level
on its radio beam, aiming
across the Rockies
for the blue-strung aisle
of an airfield on the ocean
You want to ask, am I lonely?
Well, of course, lonely
as a woman driving across country
day after day, leaving behind
mile after mile
little towns she might have stopped
and lived and died in, lonely
If I'm lonely
it must be the loneliness
of waking first, of breathing
dawn's first cold breath on the city
of being the one awake
in a house wrapped in sleep
If I'm lonely
it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore
in the last red light of the year
that knows what it is, that knows it's neither
ice nor mud nor winter light
but wood, with a gift for burning.
Haciendo limpieza encontre las viejas poesias que estudiaba en la UNAM, en Letras. Una de ellas no la olvido, siempre ha tenido mucha influencia en mi. Pero la otra la habia olvidado ya. Esa la dejo aqui solo por eso, hasta el final (Song). La otra... digamos que me ha llamado mucho por algo ultimamente.
A veces se abandona a las personas que se quiere. Por mil y un razones. Pero... lo triste es que tarde o temprano esa otra persona termina pensando en varias cosas: a) que se es una amiga de temporada, util de tener como amiga cuando se necesita b) que el/la amigo/a en realidad no es tal c) que erroneamente se esta pensando en el cari;o como en una barra de chocolate.
Y para mi, aunque puede tener otro sentido, esa poesia se refiere a la perdida de una amistad. De una amistad profunda, hermosa. Pero que ha dejado de existir por falta de trabajo o por falta de interes (que a fin de cuentas vienen a ser lo mismo).
One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent,
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Song
Adrienne Rich
You're wondering if I'm lonely:
OK then, yes, I'm lonely
as a plane rides lonely and level
on its radio beam, aiming
across the Rockies
for the blue-strung aisle
of an airfield on the ocean
You want to ask, am I lonely?
Well, of course, lonely
as a woman driving across country
day after day, leaving behind
mile after mile
little towns she might have stopped
and lived and died in, lonely
If I'm lonely
it must be the loneliness
of waking first, of breathing
dawn's first cold breath on the city
of being the one awake
in a house wrapped in sleep
If I'm lonely
it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore
in the last red light of the year
that knows what it is, that knows it's neither
ice nor mud nor winter light
but wood, with a gift for burning.