5 Muses

This is a collage (because all poems are pictures) made up of 5 pieces: 2 odes, 2 elegies, and a haiku.

I consider all works here to be strongly related and it is definitely impossible to understand each one individually without the whole picture: they tell a story.

With inspiration; that of the tropical panorama of Costa Rica and El Salvador.

First Contemplation

Uprising

To the imponent mountains of Costa Rica: Atlas, Rise!

Oh fathomless mountains

That look from above

Sublime and superior to the flattened below,

Hear my cry:

*

I tell you: Rise Up!

You are chained Atlas

Waiting for death’s call

*

Oh fathomless mountains

That look from above

You have reached a higher truth

Don’t let your trail be held nor soothe

*

I tell you: Rise Up!

Before mankind be brave

Terror from above to whoever climbing you dares

*

From its hand avert your green

Oh fathomless mountains

Only you can keep our hell within

I tell you: Rise Up!

Second Loss

Ours

To this lost ship: Time has a way of taking time

Ours is a beautiful rose

That when withered

I will gladly remove

*

Ours shines with beautiful calm

Everlasting awaits a kiss on the clock

But inside that mouth, a truth hides:

Nothing lasts forever, not even this lie

*

And I patiently wait for that ending call

I know it is soon to come

Ours is a passing love

For you, my femme fatale.

First Loss

Damné

To my tacit lover: In your eyes I see the hunger, and the desperate cry

Damné you, who do not pay attention

But your eyes speak like the sunset:

At the end of your opaque sky,

There is light, that of a star

*

You are holding on to me

But in your words, you hide the truth

And you leave me wanting so much

So much wanting; so much you

*

And in the end, it is an illusion

Of the contrasts, the true one is the dark

How sad when the sunset, I analyzed!

*

And I saw the Sun as Moon,

Lone as Hope,

But not your fire

As love.

Second Contemplation

Oh, Butterfly

To that eerie fairy: Don't you play your games with me

Oh, Butterfly!

How delightful you are when by the rose you sight

You inspire mankind, thousand prose muse you are

*

Oh, your delicate wings!

That in the air an evil aura they sing

Seductive butterfly, when does your dance stop its fling?

*

Oh, your thousand eyes!

That are only one in disguise

The world as a whole, bounded by your size

*

(Because)

*

Oh, the pretty flowers!

That she, Butterfly, empowers

She forgets to be coquette when their smell her wings encounters

*

(But above all)

*

Oh, your poor new friend!

That wishes, as a butterfly like you,

Come soon to an end.

HAIKU

Mutter

To the lost and never found: fürchtet euch nicht! (Fear not)

Mutter, Mutter, you

Have found us in the darkness.

Mutter. Mutter: you.

THE END.

PD: I referred to a bunch of song lyrics in the blockquotes, here they are, in order:

"Atlas, Rise!" - Metallica

"In My Darkest Hour" - Megadeth

"Wasting Love" - Iron Maiden

"Evil Woman" - Black Sabbath

"Sonne" - Rammstein