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RE: ADSactly Poetry - When poets speak of the homeland...

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A beautiful post, @nancybriti, with excellent poems and attractive illustrations. The poem I like the most is the one by Cristina Peri Rossi; it has a great nostalgic force and resolves in a very suggestive way that sensation of "return". I think that one of the strongest emotions before the homeland is that of loss. Once the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges wrote a sonnet to his friend, also writer Manuel Mujica Láinez, in which appear two verses (the endings) that resonate in me always. I allow myself to copy the poem (unfortunately when it is translated into English the rhyme is lost):

To Manuel Mujica Láinez

Isaac Luria declares that the eternal writing
has as many senses as readers. Each
version is true and has been preset
by the one who devised the reader, the book and the reading.

Your version of the homeland, with its splendours and shines,
enter my vague shadow as if the day had come
and the ode mocks the ode. (Mine
is nothing more than a nostalgia for ignorant knives.

and old courage.) The song is already shaking,
already, barely contained by the prison of verse,
arise the crowds of the future and diverse

the kingdom that will be yours, their joy and their weeping.
Manuel Mujica Láinez we once had
a homeland - remember? - and we both lost it.

We Venezuelans have not yet reached that limit, and there is already beginning to be a effort certain of recovery.
Thank you for your post, and @adsactly for allowing us to access it.

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May your words come true, @josemalavem and may we once again have the country we had! But we would have to ask those who left if they still keep that country inside, if they still keep something of it or on the contrary, in one of the streets of the world, they lost it. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful poem by Borges and for your heartfelt words. Hugs

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