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
About the Creator
Matt B.
He/Him
Life demands creation.
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