ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

Foggy Solitudes

I find myself

Close - distant

To the zephyr breeze,

I question in vain.

Foggy solitudes,

Dressed up as equinoxes

In perennial springs.

I require to silence

Flooding words,

To silence tears

Adorning my face.

Sadness dwelling

Like a stowaway

In soul’s murky mirrors.

Absence afflictions

Gradually succumb

Between my barren hands.

Pointless

To grasp into hope!

Reason outshines

The fragmented heart

And the bare silence

Suffocates the stars.

Stars that won’t shine

Upon nostalgia seas

Taking away opacities

And a shattered mirror

Where my reflection

Fades away

Right now.

Cracking in my own roots…

Dark memories,

Empty stealth,

And leaves

Scattered on the ground.

© ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ.

SOLEDADES DE NIEBLA

Me sorprendo

cercana – distante

a la brisa del céfiro,

en vano cuestiono.

Soledades de niebla,

ataviadas de equinoccios

en perennes primaveras.

Preciso acallar

vocablos que inundan,

aquietar lágrimas

que decoran mi rostro.

Tristeza que habita

cual pasajero clandestino

en lóbregos espejos del alma.

Aflicciones de la ausencia

sucumben paulatinamente

entre mis manos yermas.

¡Insustancial asirse

a la esperanza!

La razón eclipsa

al fragmentado corazón

y el desnudo silencio

asfixia a las estrellas.

Que dejarán de irradiar

en mares de añoranzas

llevándose opacidades

y añicos del espejo,

donde hoy

se extingue

mi reflejo.

Agrietando en mis raíces…

Oscuros recuerdos

vacíos de sigilo,

y hojas secas

esparcidas en el suelo.

© ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

MÉXICO.

 

Fallen Petals

Who will unite my fallen petals

Torn from

The heart itself

Of the flower of my existence?

Who will return the smile

What murderous hands

Suffocated in the mud

And the manure of the world?

Who will bring back

My radiant life,

Snatched in a

Cowardly act

Of rape?

Sterile earth

And burning stones

As impotent sea

Covers my roots.

My voice breaks

In twilight,

I want to sing and forget!

Burning voice

Living ashes,

Burning in the vast sky

Desolated… lifeless.

Questions without answers

Today I ask to the moon.

Silent ...

Like the chill coffin

Wrapping my whole body.

Who will return my life?

© ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

MEXICO

Far Away Air

Each sparkle has a distant and severe air.

Dusty breeze undoing

Selfless prejudices,

Diaphanous sky

Of far away shores.

Untellable words!

Sweet craving that leads

And mitigates nostalgia,

Drunkenness of the moment

Impossible fight

Bold and incandescent soul.

Every sound is a wonderful caress

Momentum, track and halo of a transient light.

Each sparkle has a distant and severe air.

I understand the instant is non-existing matter.

Burns like a wound inscribed within our consciousness,

Affliction goes away.

Full delight of interrogations and absences,

Depths and appearances;

Defining the earthly paradise hell

Of my own communion.

Each sparkle has a distant and severe air.

I learn to live

In the branches of a secret dream,

Of a fiery shade,

In the shortened line

Of abysmal dementia.

Choleric air of ephemeral tears

Shake up my roots.

Lewd whisper

Born from the body,

Proclaiming the cavity

Of long gone solitudes.

© ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ.

 

AIRE LEJANO

Cada destello tiene un aire lejano y severo.

Polvo de brisa que deshace

abnegados prejuicios,

diáfano firmamento

de costas lejanas.

¡Insoldables palabras!

Dulce anhelar que conduce,

nostalgia que mitiga

la ebriedad del momento

lucha impotente

espíritu osado e incandescente.

Cada sonido es espléndida caricia

impulso, vestigio y halo de luz transitoria.

Cada destello tiene un aire lejano y severo.

Comprendo que el instante es materia inexistente.

Calcina cual herida inscrita en la consciencia,

la aflicción se extingue.

Deleite provisorio de interrogaciones y ausencias,

abismos y apariencias;

hasta definir el infierno

paraíso terrestre

que hoy comulgo.

Cada destello tiene un aire lejano y severo.

Aprendo a vivir

en las ramas del ensueño secreto

de la sombra ardiente,

en la línea menguada

en abismal demencia.

Colérico aire del llanto efímero

sacude mis raíces.

Lúbrico murmullo

que del cuerpo nace,

pregonando la oquedad

de pasadas soledades.

© ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

MÉXICO.

ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ: Poetess, Translator, Singer, University Professor, Broadcast locution Radio and T.V. She is an internationally renowned Mexican poetess and author who has won numerous awards including: The Nobel Laureate Kobi Rabindranath Tagore Award, India 2019. The Excellence Prize in the World Poetry Championship Romania, 2019. Literary Prize of unpublished poetry "Tra le Parole e L'infinito", 20th edition, Italy, 2019.  Honorary Doctorate granted by International Forum of Creativity and Humanity I.F.C.H 2019, based in Morocco. Awarded with the EASAL medal by the European Academy of Sciences and Letters, Paris, France 2018. Awarded "Pride of the Globe" WNWU, Kazakhstan 2018. Honorable Mention in the category: Foreign Poetry, of the International Prize Poseidonia Paestrum, Edition XXIV, Italy 2018. Awarded "Universal Inspirational Poet", Pentasi B. World, India 2017; Winner of a special mention and a medal in the International Poetry Prize NOSSIDE Italy 2015, recognized by UNESCO.  Awarded with the IWA BOGDANI Albania Award, 2016. Awarded with a Third-Place category French Poetry in the International Poetry Prize "Sous les traces de Léopold Sédar Senghor" at Milan, Italy, 2016 recognized by ONU and UNESCO.  Winner of a mention in the International NOSSIDE Poetry Prize, Italy 2016. Awarded "Universal Inspirational Poet" Pentasi B. World, Africa, Ghana 2016. Her poems have been translated in 20 languages and published in more than 160 anthologies, magazines and newspapers around the world. She speaks: French, English, Italian and Spanish.