Flowers

Your lips open; a dew crowned rose,
Laced with dream, nude

Sweet words rain on my bare chest
In the form of light hidden in wild violets

Queen of the forgotten dawn
Blue, twisted slave of the shattered night
Dancing like wheat with stars!

The earth throbs in bird-filled reveries
Waves sleep on foam beds, beneath the lighthouse-like cliff

Stars disentangle from their light-hued garb
The moon bleeds streams of silver, finite dreams

My heart closes in streaks of ice, a river that never reaches the sea,
Sleeping on a pillow, a moonlike slab of basalt,
Drunken on loneliness

Only Mountains Live Forever

The song: the wind cooing the sun amid the green avenues of pine and of waves crashing against the isles of melancholy. The sight of your brows intoxicated on freedom and brine flying as dreams atop the teary-eyed sea and your ever changing white eyes as if larks leaving the green and blue for the moon’s silvery shadowy cliff.

In the night void of life from mountain to sea, I knit the words among your stars of hope and on the dew of the newfound spring. I walk rootless around the earth for another peek of my childhood land peopled with the echo of laughter and the sea of bleeding poppies.

The song lives and dies with the birth and demise of my memories and so I bequeath to you dark, sonorous lover, my dreams, which live in your hazel tree-eyes.
What a dream, what a land! Hidden grove of love, deep green stream of secrets. You with your little blue eyes lived on the moon and the crazy-eyed men were wading in the livid river of death! They had come with snared lips and dark hearts. They took our land and when I said no they pushed harder, mutilating every little flower including the thorny roses. They walked away with their sad perverted minds toward life, death, twisted happiness, hidden melancholiness. They didn’t find love in a field of flowers but in the metallic city of men. I discovered a white pure snow in you for my void. Where were you, Ariane, on which planet, on which mountain? Were you a figment of my gray mind? No, no you were the little blue bell that rung the solace in the appearing mirage.

In that instant, that little moment you became the fire that lit my life and you brought earth, air and water. I dug through the layers of dirt, of hellos and goodbyes to find your desolate amethyst cove. Your sweet songbird voice filled the air with lullabies. Your little dreamy mind lives among sweet clouds. Your winged soul flew through the sealed skies with its infinite love to exist among golden-eyed stars and an omniscient moon.

My world is empty for all I attained, felt, lived and died, in you. My dreams as birds perched on the cleft of your soul. My words crashed into your heart as derailed trains laden with broken hopes. The flowers of love grew in the water of your song; the salt of my tears coalesced into little crystals nestled on your oceanic lap.

My girl painted of pen and born of paper, with your deep pallor and padlock of solitude, left so seamlessly from our bed of love into the garden of glass beneath. You took, Ariane, the hidden light as candid as the lighthouse’s dream that lived in the gentle rose, which sealed your lips.

Cemetery of solitude, words still fly onto heaven’s gate and write themselves on the northern sky. Your whisper snows onto my sad smile, weighing it down into a frown. Perhaps only the butterfly leaves with her dreams intact, that the caterpillar-train of anguish becomes a kite of bliss.

Hungry ravenous lovers embrace each other by the pines. His bliss tastes the honey of her lips and her fantasy – the warm bread of his mouth. My sorrow as a great sea drowns the vessel of kisses. You are far, trembling among sad stars. Your green eyes above illuminate my forest of solace. You undermine spring, little carillon of a bluebell that penetrates the snow of oblivion and whose ringing brings ice-cast statues to life, when you live among nuptial dreams and forgotten souls. You, Ariane are not forgotten, living in the flowerbeds of my thoughts, a little butterfly on the tip of my tongue!

Everything that grew in your soul died in my heart, the intoxicated marigolds, the lap of fading topaz. Except, the trembling shadows that draw in letters of chalk, dark phrases, your cool soul guiding my warm hand and my silent voice. My voice that has no leaps and bounds travels through the cave of echoes, on the Via Dolorosa and the labyrinth of deep restlessness! The song that rises from my mouth into your large blue eyes as if fish into a deep ocean. I live in the cage of darkness and only music with its arrow can pierce your soul, your wildflower filled isle.

In the night void of life, which spreads from mountain to sea, I knit the words from your stars of hope and the dew of the newfound spring. I walk rootless around the earth for another peek of my childhood land peopled with the echo of laughter and the sea of withering poppies.

The song lives and dies with the birth and demise of my memories and so I bequeath, to you dark, sonorous lover, my dreams, which live in your hazel tree-eyes.
My dream is a butterfly in its coat of rain on the last night of autumn.
My love is a caterpillar in its jacket of dew on the first spring morning.

An Ode to Ariane

Ariane: A dream, a fire, a butterfly

Your lips were boats of roses

Hair, the fire of life

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The voice of spring, of freedom

Laden with the aromas of pines,

Sounding like a dove cooing another

I fell into your soul, into the chasm of dream

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Your blood

As if an endless army brought happiness

To the stronghold of oblivion

in the depths of my heart

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My blue, tearful world faded into

bright shades of scarlet skies

emerald forests

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Sunlight entered the gate

of your amber necklace

and your rose fell into

my soul’s garden

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But your eyes didn’t gaze on my isle, my ocean

they longed for him

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Your thoughts, paper airplanes

found refuge

In the green ink letters

of his notes

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Two blue flowers of those eyes

slept on the plain of his chest

Your heart’s star electrified his soul

Leaving in me the violet darkness

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Sorrow drowns my vessel of kisses

and my butterfly doesn’t

perch next to yours

on the cherry tree of love

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Sleeping in the silver, dreamy cedar

the moon painted

Hope in light

Hope in light,
On little boats of dream
In stars; the flowers of the night,
On lighthouses clothed in golden suits

From your eyes
Where the sun sets
Among your placid hills,
The fire is lit
and our souls are merged
By the voice of spring
Amid the green avenues of pine

All that remains is a voice

All that remains is a voice

That crumbles into thousands of dreams

Atop the sea of the tears

And two white eyes that seek refuge

Flying as larks to rest

On the moon’s shadowy, silvery breast

III. Paradise/Paraíso

III. Paradise:
The light hits the sleepy sky
The road snakes

The stars are flashing
As Christmas lights
The moon bleeds silver

Pure woman of the Moon
We walk in love,
Hand in hand

For in you all is born,
They sleep in my soul

Nothing has a name,
Leather, Fire, Iron
But they live in you

I do not live in the canyon of your marble legs
I do not live in your forests of thoughts
I live in your blood,
In the valley of your heart

And that night the horizon paints small ships
So I row for your gift:
The rings of Saturn


La luz golpea el cielo adormecido
El camino se serpentea

Las estrellas se destellan
Como las luces de Navidad
La luna sangra de la plata

Mujer pura de la Luna
Caminamos en amor,
Mano en mano

En tú, todos son nacidos,
En mi alma ellos duermen

Nada tienen un nombre,
Piel, Fuego, Hierro
Pero, ellos viven en ti

No vivo en el cañón de tus piernas de mármol

No vivo en tus bosques de ideas
Vivo, en tu sangre,
En el valle de tu corazón

Y esa noche el horizonte, pinta pequeñas naves
Eso, yo remo por tu regalo:
Los anillos del Saturno

Purgatory/El Purgatorio

I still dream about your body
As a snowy mountain clothed
In marigolds of tenderness.

The river of secrets shines like silver,
Roses undress between your breasts.

I walk in my robe with tears
In your dream world.
The world of peace, doves
The land of hope, bells

Do not bring me lilies from the edge of the ocean
Do not bring me water from the mountains

Night falls on my soul and I live,
Live with the pale image of you

Among the jungle of my chaos
Between, are your arms that open and close
Stolen by a sordid Spanish

The villages of my soul,
Fall into the hand of death
That ifts them to an impenetrable cloud castle
Without hope, without you

But one day you will come, queen of the moon
With your mother of pearl wings
And we will rest on the moon

Until,
Time separates my soul
In a cemetery of glass
And the sun shines on you, in vain


Sigo soñar sobre tu cuerpo

Como, una montaña nevada vestía

En las caléndulas, de la ternura.

El río de los secretos brilla como plata,

Las rosas se desnudan entre tus pechos.

Yo camino, en mi bata de lágrimas

En tu mundo de ensueño.

El mundo de paz, de palomas

La tierra de esperanza, de campanillas

No trae a mí, los lirios del borde del océano

No trae a mí, el agua de las montañas

La noche cae en mi alma y yo vivo,

Vivo con la imagen pálida de ti

Entre la jungla de mi caos

Entre, son tus brazos eso abren y cierran

Robado por un español sórdido

Las aldeas de mi alma,

Caen en la mano de la muerte

Que los levanta les a un castillo impenetrable de nubes

Sin la Esperanza, sin ti

Pero, un día tu vendré, reina de la luna

Con tus alas de madreperla

E iremos a descansar en la luna

Hasta que,

Tiempo separa mi alma

En un cementerio, del vidrio

Y el sol ilumina tú, en vano

The Earth/La Tierra

I do not look for heavenly constellations,
Like you, my Lady
But on earth, my earth

The smooth skin of
bread

The eyes of the fountain,
shiny coins

Trees with crowns of

Leaves and forbidden fruit

The sea with hair
Twisted like a princess
But you are mine

Some shine more,
Some have a longer stride
But you are mine

In your heart there is a country
Where there are no tears
And loneliness

Drunken by spruces
Saddened by the infinity of galaxies

The departure of me,
In my beach
Of remorse
On a boat of Basalt
Laden with kisses and flowers
Sailing over lakes of your tears
For your island, your soul

Where I am like a tree
I grow my roots in your soul
Bring me your water, your thoughts, your words

And I protect you with my shadow
Of those who blacken you
And paint you, violet

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Yo no miro por constelaciones divinos,

Como tú, mi Señora

Pero, sobre la tierra, mi tierra

La piel lisa

Del pan

Los ojos de la fuente,

Monedas relucientes

Por ti, no por usted

Los árboles con las coronas

De Hojas y la Fruta prohibido

El mar con el pelo

Trenzado como una princesa

Pero tú eres mío

Algunos brillan más,

Algunos tienen una zancada más larga

Pero tú eres mío

En tu corazón hay un país

Donde, no hay lágrimas

Y soledad

Borracho, por las piceas

Entristecen, por el infinito de las galaxias

La partida de mí,

En mi playa

Del remordimiento

En un barco del basalto

Agobiado con los besos y flores

Navegaba encima de lagos del lágrimas

Para tu isla, tu alma

Donde yo soy como un árbol

Crezco mis raíces en tu alma

Trae a mí, tu agua, tus ideas, tus palabras

Y protejo tú, con mi sombra

De los que ennegrecen tú

Y pintan tú, violeta

Fading

Our love faded

In an autumn-dyed lamp

Under empty skies

Where golden boats of dreams fled in the horizon

In fields where a vagrant love walks in a tear-stained shawl

With every step a bluebell falls from a rosy palm

And I ask why love fell deep in the soil of your soil and yet like my inner child falls and rises night past night, day and day, water, blood

A Seeking

I searched for you through the skies of my dreams, the lakes of tears
The forests of my thoughts

My roots that sought an alien land
My star a new sky

Seeking lips and finding a soul
Wanting fire and drinking water

In these brumal times
Your green shelters me

My seamstress, you knit my dreams
My flower girl, bringing blue, ethereal flowers
Bringing garlands of kisses

Her arms destined to my lands with oils and fragrances
Of oranges and roses

Her hands: little butterflies
Orange and paper-like

The silver of her smile
The green of her eyes

Green like the forest
Where the barriers to our love fall like trees
Where lighting strikes like the insanity of love
Where the fire burns, one night and one only.

Her dress was not long
And violet
And deathlike

But rather yellow, like
Bees, Gold, Stars
Sunflowers
Long and straight; Nature’s warriors
Stretched to the sun itself
To you, luminous and desirable

Here in the skies and pines we danced again
And
Again

Embraced
Again
And
Again

Fell like the world’s great plates to each other’s mercies
Villages ravaged except for the gingerbread town hall
Towns abandoned except for grandiose vessels
Great cities lay ruined except for silver churches
Nations far and wide desolate except for the dream factory,
Butterflies in transparent cases, ivy like secrets in the walls

Yet in these winters came springs greater and fuller
The gingerbread lost taste to rich cream
Flight came and left
The spire glowed golden
The ivy grew like obelisks and the butterflies
Carried the dreams far and wide

But found one another once
Like a child; a mother
Like a star, a soul: the sky

And lost once
He, consuming the desert sand
Oblivious to his coat of embraces wore his garment of tears

The vagabond searched like the dried river for the sea
Eternally

Before night hushed the earth as winter
Broke dreams like glass
Tucked him into the earth as a mother

But he rose like a butterfly, his soul
Empty and solitary