Tangled thread

Tangled thread

Hard to understand, hard to breakWhen life gets worseLike a crab on rocksI don’t want to live, I don’t want to die Is it possible to hope for results without struggle, without sacrifice?Or, is it possible to achieve huge profits without capital?Doesn’t every product match what is being worked on? If the world were a … Read more

Light from Tuban Land

Light from Tuban Land

You are come from Tubewithout sound,your eyes speak Stars:soldier at gunpoint,standing among dust and massmelting in the evening, settling in the chest.I wait for you on the bed of wounds,your body is steel and mighty earth. Like Ronggolawe who praysWithout giving up life, without ceasing.Majapahit is fragile, you saybut the spirit never fades.Losing is just … Read more

[Puisi] An empty soul

[Puisi] An empty soul

A silence fellIncarnate in infinite silenceIt seems that the universe has no color anymoreAtma is lost in the frame of sin Dark shadows overwhelmed meEverything that used to shine is now goneThe sky looked dark without any lightThe conscience feels empty and constantly disappearing The mind is filled with wishful thinkingI want to say it … Read more

García Montero: ‘Poetry is a good vaccine in this world without much reflection’

García Montero: ‘Poetry is a good vaccine in this world without much reflection’

En un mundo como el actual, “de muchas prisas y de poca reflexión, en el que se nos invita a hablar mucho pero sin pensar lo que estamos diciendo”, Luis García Montero, poeta y director del Instituto Cervantes, considera la poesía “una buena vacuna contra esa manera de perder el tiempo”. “Ha sido siempre una … Read more

Yes, soon

Light from Tuban Land

YES, SOON Those dreams, fatherBeen stuck in the waiting room for so longEndless prayer tooWaiting for your approvalEven though ‘useless’ is always big “Soon,” you said, father.The cocoons become butterfliesWith a pair of wings of hope before himI’m not trying to accept itFear of crimes and re-crimes because, as you said before, fatherI’m just kind … Read more

The Conversation of the Dead and the Living

The Conversation of the Dead and the Living

at kampung kampung cemetery this morning “Good morning guys spirit“, I said, pretending to be friendly“Good morning my friend,” replied one of the graves inside “How’s the situation down there, is it safe?”“It’s not good down here, it’s crowded, what are the conditions up there?”“It’s not good here either, it’s crowded, the price of rice … Read more

‘Canto desert’ comes to the voice of pure poetry, “without concessions”: Alberto Blanco

‘Canto desert’ comes to the voice of pure poetry, “without concessions”: Alberto Blanco

The 30 years that Alberto Blanco dedicated to completing ‘Canto desert’ give an idea of ​​the magnitude of that creation and why for him “it is not just another book.” It is “the culmination of the work” of that renowned Mexican poet, according to his counterpart Jesús Munárriz, director of the Ediciones Hiperión label in … Read more

quiet quiet

Light from Tuban Land

on a completely empty space population in the middle of the silence the night embraces silence, silence tells stories, silence creeps in, welcomes silence. on a quiet night the night wind carries a silent story in an empty space full of varsha rain drops wetting the recesses of the remembered soul figure that, the desire … Read more

A memory of the victims of heroin in the eighties, Juan Tallón’s foray into fantasy, Joan Didion’s X-ray of the upper middle class and other books of the week | Babelia

A memory of the victims of heroin in the eighties, Juan Tallón’s foray into fantasy, Joan Didion’s X-ray of the upper middle class and other books of the week | Babelia

Where did the victims of heroin in the 1980s in Spain go? In it 1979, Novelist Juan Trejo investigates the premature death of his older sister, Nela, in 1979, not only to remember who that teenager was who, like so many others, became hooked on drugs in those years, but also to question the shared … Read more

The railway is life, it is everything: Salvador Zarco

The railway is life, it is everything: Salvador Zarco

Puebla, Pue., The train is poetry, the train is life, because the train is like the veins of a living being. It is history, it is everything.stated Salvador Zarco Flores (Mexico City, 1945), a fierce union leader, tireless social fighter and staunch defender of the railroad, its drivers and its heritage. Smiling, visibly happy and … Read more