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*My Book Of Days*

Ó lá go lá, mo thuras, An bealach fada romham. Ó oiche go hoiche, mo thuras, na scéalta nach mbeidh a choích'.

La poesia de Octavio Paz.

It seems I haven´t written anything for a long, long time. Here I go with another poem by the mexican writer Octavio Paz and I hope you all enjoy it as I do.


Acabar con todo.


Dame, llama invisible, espada fría,
tu persistente cólera,
para acabar con todo,
oh mundo seco,
oh mundo desangrado,
para acabar con todo.

Arde, sombrío, arde sin llamas,
apagado y ardiente,
ceniza y piedra viva,
desierto sin orillas.

Arde en el vasto cielo, laja y nube,
bajo la ciega luz que se desploma
entre estériles peñas.

Arde en la soledad que nos deshace,
tierra de piedra ardiente,
de raíces heladas y sedientas.

Arde, furor oculto,
ceniza que enloquece,
arde invisible, arde
como el mar impotente engendra nubes,
olas como el rencor y espumas pétreas.
Entre mis huesos delirantes, arde;
arde dentro del aire hueco,
horno invisible y puro;
arde como arde el tiempo,
como camina el tiempo entre la muerte,
con sus mismas pisadas y su aliento;
arde como la soledad que te devora,
arde en ti mismo, ardor sin llama,
soledad sin imagen, sed sin labios.
Para acabar con todo,
oh mundo seco,
para acabar con todo.


Mother of Punk: She does it her way.Life in sepia.

Comments

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nice picture with the poem
the woman picture

By bluecoffee, # 8. July 2008, 23:25:23

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Thanks bluecoffee. I got it on the net, and I think the other one`s beautiful too. :happy:

By Gothic.O, # 9. July 2008, 18:30:21

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The first talks too me much more
It makes me dream

By bluecoffee, # 9. July 2008, 22:53:15

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Yeah, it´s really beautiful, melt into the stones, but I guess she´s not so hard as the stones are. maybe she´s waiting for someone to touch her and release her from that stones prison. Who knows...

By Gothic.O, # 10. July 2008, 19:52:20

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Like the spirit in the tempest of Shakespeare...
ariel or caliban I don't remember well now...

By bluecoffee, # 10. July 2008, 20:30:17

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Yes, like the beauty we all have inside. It´s a nice metaphor.

By Gothic.O, # 14. July 2008, 17:33:04

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sure for the beauty but that's not all...

By bluecoffee, # 14. July 2008, 17:39:32

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So there´s something more you mean. What is it?

By Gothic.O, # 14. July 2008, 17:43:19

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As the philosopher speak there is the beauty
and what is not the beauty...that is more...

By bluecoffee, # 14. July 2008, 17:49:03

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What is beyond the beauty then?

By Gothic.O, # 14. July 2008, 18:00:06

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sorry but that's not the question
I understand what you say but I think the beauty is not all

In other I think that the good is better than the beauty
but the good as good

By bluecoffee, # 14. July 2008, 18:05:10

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