ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMIREZ

Alicia Minjarez Ramírez

LOVERS

Longing mitigates

the drunken night,

treasuring the imprint

abolished by desire

that breaks us

and brings together,

intrinsic fire

of profane verses

under the intrigue

of shadows.

Materiality keeps

our bodies tied up to

the lunar instant

of balsamic ether,

burning desires

falling apart

evaporating

the mossy seduction

of having the absolute void.

You’re dust in the breeze

of my conscious being,

bringing delightful

and melodic essences

inside hollow fruit trees

of worn out headings.

Imprecise and sharp legend

of upcoming evenings,

barking at the sap sight.

Derange me, seduce me, drive me.

Like a consonant plunging

upon the rhetorical memory,

dialect upsetting and chaining us up

beyond our hands.

Exhalation,

dementia without sanity

defining my earthly Nirvana,

meanwhile, I belong to you

under the remote

silence glass…

By rubbing

your timely

spike.

Translated by:   Alaric Gutiérrez MEXICO.

FOGGY SOLITUDES

I find myself

close - distant

to the zephyr breeze,

I question in vain.

Foggy solitudes,

dressed up as equinoxes

in perennial springs.

I require to silence

flooding words,

to silence tears

adorning my face.

Sadness dwelling

like a stowaway

in soul’s murky mirrors.

Absence afflictions

gradually succumb

between my barren hands.

Pointless

to grasp into hope!

Reason outshines

the fragmented heart

and the bare silence

suffocates the stars.

Stars that won’t shine

upon nostalgia seas

taking away opacities

and a shattered mirror

where my reflection

fades away

right now.

Cracking in my own roots…

dark memories,

empty stealth,

and leaves

scattered on the ground.

Translated by:   Alaric Gutiérrez  MEXICO.

BREATH OF LIGHT

Mute allegory of clouds

feeling my cedars’ roots,

designing the path;

song of blackbirds and orioles,

stunned chimera permuting

fertile figs and pomegranates.

Musical waterfalls

permeate thick

alders and chestnuts,

ethereal decline;

Antioch’s legacy

rinses and distorts

coasts, olives and vines

over the Patara’s coastline.

Emir necromancer

descends from

bare meadows

revealing seeds

to quench the moon

in the subtle geography

of my own shadows.

Your eyes light up

the awoken clay

of jade and honeysuckle,

moistening poems

to clear the air

of the past hours.

Imprecise and concrete trail

upon the wind of days

that intertwines our dawn.

A brief breath of your light

is enough

in the abyss of my night.

Translated by:   Alaric Gutiérrez MEXICO.

OMENS

Words predict

liquid dawns

dismembering

your breath.

Faceless tears

intercepting a wind

of circumspect aphorisms,

sparrows in flight.

Scoped sign upon

the pearls of your laugh,

ambiguous illusions

I drown in your pipe dream.

Match up utopia

the memory of days,

intolerable prose

in the fire of my blood.

Comets watching us

conspiring over shadows

of a present past,

lost and found

waterfalls in your forest,

moon spells.

fallen spells,

omens

from your pen.

Translator: Alaric Gutiérrez

BAKLAVA AND HONEY

Distant contiguous strokes

Set up the prayers of Anatolia.

Eclectic fragrant spices                   

Clove, sumac, vanilla and cinnamon          

Overflowing cornices.         

Gold, silver, apple tea,

Water pipes, almonds and kaput   

Songs of your lineage!

Indigo horizons

Melt the earth

Of mud and jade

in baklava and honey;

Musical odors

Surround

Nocturnal savannas

In the edge of the days.

Bare fingers 

on red-berried mistletoe and oaks

require the transcending kiss,

reaching the limits of touch

bluish declining

of our belongings.

As affable Sultan

dressed up with Habiye silk.

Transcribe my dreams

with watercolors of straight lines

to drown the sun within,

in the bowl of my palms.

Translated by:  Alaric Gutiérrez

TRAVELLER

Redemptive breeze

imprisons my space,

like raining stars

as fragrant words

at the crescent moon,

salt conspires about

your shooting and lasting

existence.

Blue air flutter about

your wet

vertices notes,

ascending

through 

the tree’s essence.

Guttural sounds

spotting

the horizon.

I sense you

among murmurs

of leaves

diluting

liquid shadows,

imaginary

pigeon’s pieces,

luminance music

of the dreams

we forge.

I find you,

wrong or right,

in haste;

in the rain’s

incessant voice.

Beautiful traveler

of dreamed steps

and arms of fire.

Drowned in

desire-scented steam

I dusk upon

foreign oaks,

as touch produced by

your path;

dark moor

of an old sky

reinvent

your word of light,

the illusory

copulation

of language.

©ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

Alicia  Minjarez  Ramírez Poet, Translator,  Singer,   Broadcast locution Radio and T.V. She was born in Tijuana Baja California, Mexico.  She studied a Master Degree in Computer Science,  specialization in Artificial Intelligence.  Master Degree in Computer  Science at the University of Montpellier II, France.

Winner of a special mention at the International Poetry Prize NOSSIDE, Italy 2015,  recognized by UNESCO.  She won the Universal International Poet Award Pentasi B. World  Friendship Poetry, Africa, Ghana 2016. Her poetry was Awarded in Spain in 2015.  

Her poems were included on the  XXI Century  World Literature Book,  Presented at New Delhi, India with  Internationally renowned poets and writers. Mexican Director at Writers Capital International Foundation, an International foundation to inspire writers across the world to contribute to the values of humanity. Coordinator and simultaneous translator   French-  Spanish- English  at  CUPHI III on the III Congress of Universal  Hispano-American Poetry  in Los Angeles, California, 2014.

Participation in the 34th  World Congress of Poets at Peru 2014.  She participated in more than 30 International Poetics Anthologies  at  Chile, Macedonia, Italy, Spain, Mexico, USA, India, Tunisia  and Canada.  Her poems have been published on International  Journals and  Reviews,  such:  Ila and  Taourirt  at Morocco,   “The Poet”  at Tunisia, Galaktika Poetike “ATUNIS” in Albania,   and the famous magazine OKAZ in  Saudi Arabia.

Her poems have been translated into English, Cameroonian,  Arabic,  Portuguese and French.  Have had read  on   International  Poetry  Recitals  in severals  Countries around the  world,  and transmitted in National and International  Radio programs. In the field of translation, she has collaborated with  International Poets and Writers providing versions of their literary works. Her translations were published in magazines and newspapers in:  London, Italy, Albania, Taiwan, United States,  Morocco,   Chile,  Spain, Canada, India, Uzbekistan and Hazaristan. Member of the select International Group PENTASI B. WORLD FRIENDSHIP POETRY created by the father of the visual poetry: Doctor Penpen B. Takipsilim.