Spanish Poetry In Translation

The butterfly The butterfly flew among the cars. Marie Jose said to me: It has to be Chuang Tzu On the way to New York. But the butterfly Di...

Love Woman, I have become your son, by drinking The milk from your breasts as if from a spring, By looking at you and feeling you by my side...

Weddings They are lost in the fog, The hummingbird and its lover. Two stones hurled by desire, They meet in the air. The Spanish broom is al...

Lovers We are like those who love. In nude we become two strange monsters Groping each other tightly, The scars of unforgiving desire show T...

Dina Posada (1946- ) El Salvador Climacteric Soon the cadence will be broken That maintains my lunar days. My veins will be aged, My body wi...

Verses of Love I Everything about you is sweet, To live like I live, Hanging from your love, As if in a captive world. The world runs to my ...

There is a tower in the plaza There is a tower in the plaza, In the tower there's a balcony, In the balcony there's a lady, A lady, ...

The Knife Sharpener This terrible pain builds up every night For a new pair of wings… Where will be those who yesterday Put on my shoulders ...

Poem X (from Magnolia) This melon is a rose, He smells like a rose, There has to be an angel inside With heart and groins always on fires. H...

Leave in my bosom Leave a fruit In my bosom. Give me Your beastly Resemblance. *** deja en mi pecho un fruto. ofreceme tu fiera semejanza.

My love reveals things My love reveals things, Silken butterflies, Concealed in his finges, His words Sprinkle me with stars Under the finge...

I Will Tell You Later To my husband Martín Alberto Boneo 1975 I will tell you later why the time hurts me so much and why there is no turnin...

Verses of Love I Everything about you is sweet. To live like I live Hanging in your love, Like a captive world. The world runs to my feet, B...

I go crazy, my love, I go crazy I go crazy, my love, I go crazy When slowly I go into your mouth; And almost without wanting, almost for not...

You Threw Me A Lemon (IV: from El Rayo Que No Cesa) You threw me a lemon, and so bitter, with a warm hand, and so pure, that its shape did n...

Lover What I do not want is to give you the words of day dreams. Not to spread the image with my lips on your face, nor with my kiss. I take...

Kiss me and embrace me, husband of mine, and I will give you a clean shirt in the morning. I never saw a man so dead while alive, or so slee...

Heal Me Heal my wounds O man from the North! Heal my wounds And clean the ones That still lie dormant. Put wings on them, Water them, Do wha...

Sugar on the Lips From the shop-keeper’s wife to Conchita, the red head, and from Jesus, the shoe-maker to Roberto, the school-teacher all, ...

The Solitude Marco has gone, he won’t return The morning train arrives without him, He’s the only one with the soul of a metal, In this gray...

One More Night As I dreamed I imagined You seducing me slowly I felt I was yours, I gave all to you Until you stole my soul I never thought ...

For Moments I am the love in flesh I am an anchor, a candle and a boat’s rudder I am the sun burning the dawn A night of scented stars. For ...

Gazelle Of The Desperate Love The night does not want to come So that you do not come Nor can I go. But I will go Though a sun-of-scorpions ...

Sometimes Sometimes everybody and myself, We have a tree grown in the hands Or the sea in front Or the hope, like a carpet extended to our s...

What will happen to you? When you are left without me. What light will reach you That is shade to me? When you are left without me. What wil...

And the things I look at And the things I look at, the monuments Of God raised today on the sand, Where a fistful of fire orders them And pr...

Two Tankas High on the summit The whole garden is lit By the golden light of the moon. More precious in the shadow Is the soft touch of your...

Ballad of a ready-skirt-girl This is the ballad of a reckless girl happy and in flamboyant colors greets with her smile of my-dear-love all ...

Sad Men Do Not Dance With Partners Sad men scare the birds away, the clouds descend down to their brooding foreheads and break into sheer, o...