ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMIREZ

ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMIREZ

TRAVELER

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.

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ.

IT RAINS…

A longing breeze

tries to show itself,

like nostalgia

migrating

up in the air.

Water permeates

my body.

Your breath

fills in

the context.

Longing secrets

that the wind

shakes up in the offing,

then nothingness.

I walk behind

upon the moisture

left by the drops

under the branches.

Birds get detached

from their nests,

looking for

the promised shelter.

Church bells ring,

outside

the night

interrupts.

I long to dry off

the rain,

like those birds

besetting

park trees

in the evening.

The stillness of your eyes

invades me…

Ecstatic wings,

paralyzing their flight.

At my silence’s feet.

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ.

THE PATH OF YOUR STEPS

Naked and lurking

tenderness

at the riverbank,

a kiss clinging on

as a vine

and climbing

through the sap

of my branches.

I spy on the night

in your thistles,

adjacent meridians

in the nectar

of your Nile.

Of  all your summers

emanate and disappear

crepuscular fragments,

frosts decorate

the melodic chant

of orioles

and blackbirds.

I invent you and lose you

in the zephyr choleric notes,

the sublime lightness

makes silence thunder up.

Dissolving my dawns

in the hustle of memory,

fire against the light

of the stranger and nubile

torso of your body.

You rain and crumble

over my fragrant touch,

blast that exalts

the sound of the stones

building up

my roads,

long gone

and desolated

landscapes

blooming today

behind your

own steps.

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ.

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ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMIREZ

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 90 International Anthologies, journals and magazines around the world.