NORMA GARCÍA COIROLO

NORMA GARCÍA COIROLO

The Lute

Hang the rug

which stiff clapper,

from the black hole

on the second floor.

The war walks

haughty

through the ruins,

from the fierce attack

even fright.

From the first floor

the man points

the lute,

extend his arm

In the distance,

to the other that waits

down on the street,

surrounded by rubble

stones and offal.

Sleeping music

in the chords,

the silence that

the strings and the box,

keep

remind them

of other lives,

forgotten melodies,

the ancestors and the

voices,

that save them.

Alepho 27.2.2017

Le Ballon Rouge

The red balloon goes through the air,

on sidewalks, on portals,

it is joy that moves,

for your rubble city of Gaza.

Smiles the boy who is chasing him,

sow hope, truce asks you,

to escape the missiles.

The balloon flies, the balloon rises

guides the little one, who is chasing him,

the child escapes, truce asks you,

there will be no more crying, there will be no pain,

the red balloon with its illusion,

erase memories from the heart,

the war dies, with its clamor.

The red balloon flies towards the sun.

Palestine 6.7.2014

Hope…

The room in rubble

surrounds the old man,

the curtains hang

over the window,

concrete blocks,

the broken wall.

The war has left

skeletal walls,

rubble and dust

cold buildings,

nameless headstones.

Sitting on the edge

from the empty bed,

smoking his pipe

dumb and lonely,

crossed leg,

hear the sound

that comes from the album,

that rolls without pause

in the old Pick Up

NORMA GARCÍA COIROLO

NORMA GARCÍA COIROLO, born in Río Branco, Cerro Largo, Uruguay in 1947, studies drawing and painting at the UTU School of Applied Arts and studies of lyric singing at the University School of Music Poet by vocation, writes since 1966, published for the first time in 2012, in literary pages of the Web. Published anthologies: Liberating the Words - ANUESCA, Murcia, Spain 2015. Luz de Luna - Literary Diversity, Madrid, Spain 2015. Christmas Tales - II Palazón Ángeles Contest - Murcia, Spain 2015. Crystal Heart - Guatemala 2016. Dionisia Vivas, Ten Voices of Current Poetry - Murcia, Spain 2016. Christmas Tales - III Palazón Ángeles Contest - Murcia, Spain 2016. Women and their Feathers III - International Poetic Anthology - Paraguay 2016. The spike station - Haiku, Quintana Roo, Mexico 2017. Anthology For the children of the world - Caracol Azul - Literary platform, Quintana Roo - Mexico 2017. Christmas Tales - IV Contest Ángeles Palazón - Murcia, Spain 2017. An infinity of poetry - VI Anthology, Volume 1 - Shared Verses 2017. Love Letters - Shared Verses 2017, Uruguay. Between the Moon and the Sea - VII Anthology Volume 1 - Shared Verses 2018 Short stories Memories - Shared Verses - 2018 Uruguay. Letters, Heartbreak, Farewell - Shared Verses – 2018. Uruguay Poetry The Step of the Years - Shared Verses - 2018 Uruguay. TAHIEL Anthology - Buenos Aires, Argentina -2018. New Poetry and Hispano-American Narrative of the 21st Century - Madrid 2018. More than 100 Poets for Peace - Argentina 2019 A. Awards: In 2012 Prize Accécit I Contest Micro-stories. Verse to Verse (Official Poetry Page) of Barcelona, Spain Finalist in the VI Contest "Classical Music and Poetry" 1st edition. First Prize in the II Contest Micro-stories "Memories". Finalist in the VII Contest "Impressions in Haiku" In 2013 Popular Prize in the V Contest "Love". From 2013 to 2018 published in the Molínea Magazine of Murcia, Spain In 2014, he published on the page Between Flight and Verses of Guatemala, in three Virtual Poetic Anthologies. 2nd. Place I Romantic Poetry Contest, "Mon Amour". First Prize in the I Uni-Versos Social Poetry Contest, “Unión de Verses for a Better World”. 2016 Honor to Literary Merit for his work, in International Poetic Anthology Women and their Feathers III. Hernandarias, Alto Paraná, Paraguay. 2017 1st Mention Category Poetry, 1st. "Autumn" Poetry and Narrative Contest, Municipality of Recreo, Santa Fe, Argentina. 2017 “Victoria Highlights” Award, International Edition, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2018 César Egido Serrano Foundation - Museum of the Word, Madrid, Spain, appoints it as the Spanish Language Ambassador for Uruguay. 2018 “Estrella del Sur” Award, International Edition, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2018 International Award “Award the Best de Oro”, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2019 “Estrella del Sur” Award, International Edition, Montevideo, Uruguay.