JORGE CONTRERAS

 

The Tailor Of Dreams

The snails weave a fine diamond silver filigree,

the dreams tailor grasps foam from waves and spins it

with silver chains, weightless as a shadow of light, 

visible on the green leaves of geraniums.

As you dive into another dimension where dreams

are words with dreams and in them you dream.

An inner impulse is the tailor's cloth 

that dresses your blood with tissues, marine cells, 

immortal jellyfish,

whales sitting around a table

looking at the sketches’ album that the dreams tailor 

has published in a book for Marina. 

You become even more immersed, 

every second is a thousand years beyond time

flowers are eternities and in each of them galaxies are sighted, 

angels or geniuses, immense souls vibrating in the nothingness

and you are far away, infinite, profound

looking at me in the possibility

and the dreams tailor sees you submerging 

and he dreams of being a sea pulsating in densities: 

on one side the waves are mountains

on the other they are blizzards

and you, you reveal the mystery of distances

and the mystery of destinies

and you emerge to breathe in this world

for an instant.

Translation By Luz María López (Puerto Rico)

Poetry Is A State Of Consciousness

When I saw her, 

I felt a lovely emotion, 

then I listened to her 

and I had the impression

that she breathed in a different way, 

that she could fill her lungs

with smiles and birdsongs, 

that she was a tree and that the light turned

her into words and that her roots 

extended towards other realities,

languages, dreams. 

      She is Eden. 

The paradise is poetry, 

which is a state of consciousness,

which is a limitless place.

Translation By Luz María López (Puerto Rico)

JORGE CONTRERAS HERRERA

JORGE CONTRERAS HERRERA (Mexico). Poet, essayist, editor, compiler, jury for poetry awards, reading promoter and cultural manager. He has published 16 books of poetry. Author of His poems have been translated into a dozen languages and issued in anthologies and other publications. Founder Director of the Ignacio Rodríguez Galván International Poetry Festival. Founder Director of Ablucionistas.com and Poets Without Frontiers. Creator of the Origami Book Projects: One page One Book, with more than 50 titles edited for poets from different countries.  Advisor for cultural and research projects. Recipient of the Kathak Literary Award (India, 2024); Raúl Renán Cultural and Literary Merit Award in Mexico; Pen and Poetic Voice Award (Mexico, 2021); among other recognitions.