guillermo veloso Poems

Afternoon
Syrupy light flows through
Oblique blinds and
Falls on an autumn rose
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Let this time come
Let this time pass
Quiet and still now
There are twenty new stars in the
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From the ends of the earth,
I have felt this wind
Bend my bough and stir my leaf
I sense the wave on my toe that began an ocean away
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El amor viene de lejos
Como los polvos de África que caen Cuba
Lo siento en las aguas antiguas que prueban mi piel
Lo siento en el aliento de una mariposa extranjera
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She comes like a moon-breeze
Whisper and pure
Life that crashes about us; Eyes
Like diamond twins gleaming at each other in the
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My darkness falls on the page
As moon-lit shadow
Dawn is spared the black
Day is numb to the night
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Dusk came
With the lonely dirge of a dying cicada
Carried mournfully on the disguised breath
Of an autumn breeze
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Photos like masks hang in the hall
How many masks have I worn and
How many bodies have I traveled in?
The face in the mirror wears
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You have bought me to this place
Penelope
Far from home and unrecognizable
Now torn and ripped by Scylla
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Morning is peace morning is soft
The rip tide and labyrinths of dreams
Frozen by chemicals and locked inside like
The madness of a fly
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