The poetry accompanies the human being at any time of its existence. Whether it is a short poem or an extensive ode, literature offers us a universe of possibilities to exchange feelings and ideas through letters.
In 1999, UNESCO adopted March 21 as World Poetry Day with the purpose of Promote linguistic diversity through poetic expression and make visible languages in danger of disappearance.
During this day, lovers of literature and cultural managers organize various activities alluding to date to celebrate one of the most sublime artistic expressions of the human being.
We share six short poems written by contemporary Guatemalan authors on various themes so that they can recite them this day or at any time of the year.
6 short poems written by Guatemalan authors
1. Song to mom
Today the heavens sing gratitude
Knowing that within you the sun was born with my name.
Today the days are symphony
With winds of harmony and sing
This poem for you.
Mother!
(María Mercedes Navarro)
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2. Bicycle
The steps I follow
From those morning mornings
and the first bicycle falls.
Those “eat,
I am not hungry “
I see you and that silhouette
becomes so distant, distant
But there it is,
They are still those same eyes as
They have only aged.
(David Galicia Ardón)
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3. On the banks of Atitlán
Water is blue,
turquoise is your body,
Your beats do not stop,
They finish on their banks.
(Miguel Tum Ajkot)
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4. Child, blessed spring (fragment)
Come my little, caress my face, caress my heart,
that while the world is in chaos,
Peace and hope are concentrated in you,
support among your little hands my old life,
that playing with you, spring returns,
Everything is renewed,
Language ABC From a bumble, it fills my life, like a hive,
Let’s go to the grass and dancing,
let’s forget for a moment that autumn invades me and for you,
As soon as the spring, light and color of April begins,
You are a sun that invites me to live
Next to you, who was eternal!
(Ruth Gaviota)
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5. Ternurita
Little caress that hugs me everything
almost intangible softness.
Water look to immerse yourself
The lips of which I don’t want to leave.
(Gerson González)
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6. Distance
I usually look for you
In each taciturn sun
devoured by the cold,
Among the dream mountains
indisposed by the calm of the stars,
Among my slight sigh
Born in a sleeping sky,
In the blue fly of the clariner
that guides me with a stars compass
Rumbo to the southeast
where the hundreds of kilometers
They are not distant
because I find you present,
In my heart.
(Carmen Tocay)