PATRICIA MAGDALENA SOTO VIEYRA

PATRICIA MAGDALENA SOTO VIEYRA

Sad To Look

Shoulders are exhausted

under the May sun,

that intensifies the punishment

in the open jail

from the deserted custodian.

The sad-looking man,

need water and a distant hug,

of the crying wife

like her tired mother,

when they saw him leave

after the well-being dream

with fear for suitcase.

Dry lips

they shake and hurt

walking and walking…

Without speaking or thinking

in the distant future,

and sleep between cacti

who hug him to fly

to the land of never again…

PATY SOTO VIEYRA, MARZO 2020, QUERÉTARO, MÉXICO.

Earth Drying

With dreams in tow

a migrant walk,

lined the road

of black roses

and dead thorns.

Longs to cross safely

to the land of plenty,

while his own land

it dies of hunger and remoteness.

Memories crowd

to the thirst passage,

and the laughter of his children

they go with the sunset,

while his eyes bubbling salt water.

Half way

with dry ground for the only companion,

his steps are strengthened

and illusions fly to the embrace of yours.

PATY SOTO VIEYRA, MARZO 2020, QUERÉTARO, MÉXICO.

Early Penalty

The withered mother

of worn soul

sleepless in her bed,

think of broken shoes

of the distant son,

who works at dawn

to send home

some food

brimming with bitterness…

that formerly happy boy

with curly hair and laughter from June,

today carries a bag

of early grief,

by the departure of the father

in a street fight,

who inherited tired hands,

a cart of anguishes,

and backpack of disappointments in tow…

PATY SOTO VIEYRA, MARZO 2020, QUERÉTARO, MÉXICO.

PATRICIA MAGDALENA SOTO VIEYRA

PATRICIA MAGDALENA SOTO VIEYRA. She was born in Zitácuaro, Michoacán in September 1965 and has lived in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, México since she was a child. She studied in private schools and at eighteen years she married with Oscar Sánchez at his twenty-two years, with whom she had two sons, Oscar Manuel and Miguel Alejandro. From merchant parents she did the same with her husband, for health reasons she stopped working and devoted herself to studying Literature and writing Poetry, who have accompanied her since she was little but hid her writings until she decided to make them known. Before learning to read, her father made her memorize a poetry that was his hymn “To my son by Rudyard Kipling” and at unexpected moments during the workday he asked her to declaim his poetry, she was happy and had her own particular scene when saying to her father the poetry that united them deeply. Also, at that tender age she had two dreams: to have a boyfriend and to be a mom. Her father was he who brought books home and grew up watching his parents and brothers read, remembering endless afternoons of books and stories with his sisters and cousins. At five years old, she liked to review pencils on the letters that she still did not understand but they found it fascinating as an inexplicable puzzle, when she learned to read, she entered a magical world that allowed her to understand and write those previously mysterious signs. She fell in love with children´s stories and a children´s encyclopaedias that her dad bought. As a teenager she became fond of the chivalrous novel and romance stories. Her favourite youth books were William Shakespeare´s Romeo and Juliet which she read several times and Oscar Wilde´s The Ghost of Canterville. She writes to love in all it´s facets inspired by her great loves, her husband, children and parents. She also navigates on social issues and tries to give a voice to women victims of violence, migrants in general and affected by natural events. She wrote a book dedicated to her husband and their three years of courtship titled “Echoes of a Romance”. She has participated in different national and international events, in presentations, readings and poetic gatherings, invited to radio programs in her country and abroad. She signs her writings as PATY SOTO VIEYRA.