Bow And Arrow Red Balloons

Alvaro Valverde / 3

here

Vicente Valero

're sitting alone in front of the valley
with a book in their hands to abandon at times

to watch, with the calm
due, as
the eye can see. Sounds
silence. Sometimes the rumor

branches or a bird singing intermittently.
breathe deeply. Ves. You appreciate
one at a time
that gives you this live apart. Do not yours

complaint of those who want to go
but always postponed
the occasion of his flight. You stay here

own accord:
This is your place. You are
him.

Δ

the lone oak

is on a hill
surrounding rocks, brooms, land where the tree roots

and it seems hardly defensible.
I showed my father when the boy was walking with him
between fields. Since

retain its presence with the need that hard.
From the top, watch the city.
distinction is the first thing to come back.
last thing
look when I leave the walls of this microcosm.
is more than an ancient oak.
Alone in height, quiet, is figure
of life to which he aspires who resists.

Δ

inner life

Antonio Moreno

My life is interior.
live in, there
to that which is hidden
dark.
Through
eyes light enters and stays empty

penumbra where time is displayed
opaque, inscrutable.
Alone and silent

I stop to contemplate what happens to me. In one corner
narrow
cloister-like,
where sings a source
visiting birds. From that site
hear
life
far I gone forever.
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Álvaro Valverde (Plasencia, 1959) has been coordinator of the Regional Plan for the Promotion of Reading, director of Editora Regional de Extremadura, president of the Writers Association of Extremadura, and founder of the Hispanic magazine Lusa, in two languages, Space / written Espaço and director, along with Jordi Doce, the poetry collection Timeless Voices.

is the author of books of poems Territory, waters arrested, A hidden reason (Loewe Award) A safe distance , The dark realm, Rehearsing circles, terrestrial mechanics and Outside, the last three New collection published in the Sacred Texts Tusquets.

is included in some anthologies of reference and his poems have been translated into several languages.

has published several novels The walls of the world and anyone that does not exist , and books of literary essays Reader invisible and far away I .
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