ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMIREZ

ALICIA  MINJAREZ  RAMÍREZ

MOON CHANT

A gust of wind and rumors

Hue harmonic perfumes,

Vetiver, coriander, kahve and saffron,

Crumbling the twilight dust.

Silence singing words

Bursting up

Depths of the sky.

My body invokes you

Under the Ankara fresh rain,

Fertile crescent

The spell of my lips;

Liquid light

Of shooting stars.

Horizontal waves

Moistens my edges

In the steppe plains

Of your gardens.

Even the moon is singing

Although no one notices it!

Dressed up in rainfalls

And kissing roots,

Sound waterfalls

Polishing stones

Upon your rivers’ wings.

Holding hands,

Piercing idyllic forests,

Dates and prunes

Are seeded wild,

Like impregnated

Fire water drops

On the green breeze

Of your gaze.

Undamaged yearnings

Rummage

The absence or presence

Of your breath.

Fragrant essence

Evokes the moss dance

In Turkish oak timbers.

Chimerical magma

Rises and falls,

The Ottoman honeysuckle

Of your luminous pores

Opened up

To the furtive wrap

Of my nights.

© ALICIA  MINJAREZ  RAMÍREZ

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ.

TAKE ME IN YOUR SILENCES

Many sighs in tears

Takes the time.

I don´t want the wind

Disperse your breath,

Neither the verses

That ignite my kisses,

Making of your body

The green ink

Of my whole poetry!

With the moon

Reflected on your back

So smooth,

So pure,

So mine!

Just take me

In your silences!

Today I will keep

All my dreams,

Tomorrow

My soul will take

Your memories,

Just waiting

For the moment

To embrace you

Again.

© Alicia Minjarez Ramírez

IN  THE  SHEETS  OF  YOUR  BREATH

I give you the affable

tenderness of my lips;

leafless corollas

in the cold dawn

of your moans.

Let your kiss cling to my belly

over the oscillation of notes,

the gentle melody

perspiring through your skin.

Let my essence

be your forest clearing,

exempting swallows

in incandescent delight.

In the inscrutable dream of my bed,

coastlines of your element,

I wait for the wrecked return.

Kissing the boundaries of the sky

extending far beyond the sunset.

Take your exhausted lips

until your wet sights

are extinct

in my white delusions.

©

ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMIREZ

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ.

ALICIA  MINJAREZ  RAMÍREZ:  Multi-awarded poetess, writer, singer, translator, editor, university professor, broadcast radio and T.V. She was born in Tijuana Baja California, Mexico. Her poems have been translated into: English, French, Taiwanese, Albanian, Cameroonian, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian and Polish. And published in more than 50 International Anthologies, journals and magazines around the world.