ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

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.

MY HORIZON

I want to lay in you…

As if in you

I could possess

All the seven skies!

As if in you,

Gloom and eternity

Were bringing together

The unison of the zephyr,

Inhaling you silently.

I want to lay in you…

On the warm sand

Of your chest;

In the kiss that fuses

The sea

With the universe

Between its hands.

Because only you

Are my horizon!

And I will be

Your destination.

©Alicia Minjarez Ramírez

To: Monsif Beroual… with all my love.

FAR AWAY AIR

Each sparkle has a distant and severe air.

Dusty breeze undoing

selfless prejudices,

diaphanous sky

of faraway shores.

Untellable words!

Sweet craving that leads

and mitigates nostalgia,

Drunkenness of the moment

impossible fight

bold and incandescent soul.

Every sound is a wonderful caress

momentum, track and halo of a transient light.

Each sparkle has a distant and severe air.

I understand the instant is non-existing matter.

Burns like a wound inscribed within our consciousness,

affliction goes away.

Full delight of interrogations and absences,

depths and appearances;

defining the earthly paradise hell

of my own communion.

Each sparkle has a distant and severe air.

I learn to live

in the branches of a secret dream,

of a fiery shade,

in the shortened line

of abysmal dementia.

Choleric air of ephemeral tears

Shake up my roots.

Lewd whisper

born from the body,

proclaiming the cavity

of long gone solitudes.

© ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMIREZ

Translated by: Alaric Gutiérrez

ALICIA  MINJAREZ  RAMÍREZ

ALICIA  MINJAREZ  RAMÍREZ Poet, Translator,  Singer, University Professor,  Broadcast locution Radio and T.V. She was born in Tijuana, Mexico. She is an internationally renowned poetess and author who has won numerous awards including the EASAL medal by the European Academy of Sciences and Letters 2018 at Paris, France. Awarded "Pride of the Globe" WNWU, Kazakhstan 2018; Awarded "Universal Inspirational Poet", Pentasi B. World, India 2017; Winner of a special mention and a medal in the International Poetry Prize NOSSIDE Italy 2015, recognized by UNESCO.  Awarded with the IWA BOGDANI Albania Award, 2016. Awarded with the Third Place in French Poetry in the International Poetry Prize ‘Sous les traces de Léopold Sédar Senghor” at Milan, Italy, 2016 recognized by ONU and UNESCO.  Winner of a mention in the NOSSIDE Poetry Prize, Italy 2016. Awarded "Universal Inspirational Poet" Pentasi B. World, Africa, Ghana 2016. She was considered among the International Poets published  on the XXI Century World Literature Book released at New Delhi, India, 2016.  Her poems have been translated into: English, Albanian, French, Cameroonian, Arabic, Azerbaijan, Turkish, Chinese, Taiwanese, Portuguese, Polish and  Italian. And published in more than 50 International Anthologies, journals and magazines around the world.