LA GRECIA QUE HAY EN MÍ

Poemario de Berbel de Canarias







NO me bastaron

1.013 naves, 43 caudillos y 30 reinos

para volver a encontrarte.

Tú estabas muy lejos

y mi corazón demasiado destrozado.

La próxima vez

no pasaré las distancias por mi espada,

ni miraré más líneas en tus mapas dorados,

ni esperaré la luna para besarte en ella.

Así fallé a mis dioses una sola vez.

Hoy, tranquila en mi lugar,

sumisa ante mis propias sentencias,

estiro la cabeza bajo la piedra

que anule la memoria del dolor.


Foto Grecia: Iñigo Iturriaga

Without Direction

Foto: María Del Río

By Teresa Iturriaga Osa, a translation



No, it’s not easy

to follow the protocol of the soul,

...yet since the birth of mankind and his laws,

already the soul’s words were written on the air.

Drunk with love, the water of the sea

was shaken by gestures and words…

yet how were you going to understand the mystery

of those verses if you hadn’t yet been born?



Find in your stone water-jar the last drop

of my holy wine,

the dewy bride from the lands of all those old stories,

this life is the same —

O life,

that escapes me

in the space where I exist now,

with tears for you.


Translated by the American Poet Spencer Reece
(in Madrid, october 2012)




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SIN RUMBO FIJO   



No es fácil seguir el protocolo del alma,

pues antes de nacer el hombre y sus leyes,

ya estaba escrito en el aire.

Ebria de amor, el agua del mar

se agitó entre ademanes y palabras...

¿Y cómo ibas tú a comprender el misterio de aquellos versos

si aún no habías nacido?



Busca en tu tinaja la última gota

de mi vino sacro,

novia del rocío de los campos de cuentos,

la vida misma,

vida,

que se me escapa

por el hueco del ser

en lágrimas por ti.


Teresa Iturriaga Osa (Gata en tránsito, Ed. Alhulia, 2011)

LAZARUS HOUSE (HONDURAS)

SAVE THE DATE… …BECOME A PART OF THIS PROJECT…

 

Since 1988 Our Little Roses Ministries has become an oasis of hope and opportunity for the plight of abused and abandoned girls in Honduras. Hoping to continue this life-changing work, Padre Spencer Reece recently received a Fulbright Fellowship for a project to transform the lives of these girls through creativity and self-expression. The girls will learn poetry and painting and create a book with their poems in Spanish and English and their watercolors.

Calling artists, priests, and laypersons to learn how you

can be involved with this project by joining us on

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10TH @ 7PM

 

AT THE EMMA LAZARUS HOUSE

18 WEST 10TH STREET (B/W 5TH & 6TH AVENUES)

 

with Brad Coley who will produce a documentary film

of the project

 

and Dr. Diana Frade, founder of Our Little Roses, to speak

 

RSVP to KRISTEN GUARNIERI: 704-277-3809 or kristen@ourlittleroses.org

 And SAVE A LIFE