These is a collection of 25 short poems . It is about verses, words thought with that poetic formula that is capable of reaching the soul. For this reason, we have wanted to make a diverse compilation, covering poems of all kinds and periods … although always short.
Index
The 5 best short poems
We start with five short poems that we consider stand out. This is the first sample of this type of text. In this regard, we want to make it clear that the longest poems we have chosen are sonnets (14 verses in total).
1.- Poem “Quien alumbra”, Alejandra Pizarnik.
When you look at me
my eyes are keys,
the wall has secrets,
my fear words, poems.
Only you make my memory
a fascinated traveler,
an incessant fire.
2.- Poem “Here”, Octavio Paz.
My steps on this street
resonate
in another street
where
I hear my steps
pass on this street
where
only the fog is real.
3.- Poem “Rome LII”, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer.
The dark swallows will return
their nests to hang on your balcony,
and again with the wing to its crystals
playing they will call.
But those that the flight held back
for your beauty and my happiness to contemplate,
those who learned our names …
Those … will not return!
4.- Poem “Contigo”, Luis Cernuda.
My land?
You are my land.
My people?
My people are you.
Exile and death
for me they are where
don’t be you.
And my life?
Tell me “my life,
What is it, if it’s not you?
5.- Poem “I love, you love …”, Rubén Darío.
Loving, loving, loving, loving always, with everything
the being and with the earth and with the sky,
with the light of the sun and the dark of the mud:
love for all science and love for all desire.
And when the mountain of life
be hard and long and high and full of abysses,
love the immensity that is of love on
And burn in the fusion of our own breasts!
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Short poem of the week
We have selected a short poem of the week. In this case, we have chosen a fairly short poem (only five verses), its author being the Mexican writer Octavio Paz, who always delights us with the tone and style of his unusual poetry:
6.- Poem “Your name”, Octavio Paz.
It is born from me, from my shadow,
dawns on my skin,
dawn of sleepy light.
Brave dove your name,
shy on my shoulder.
There are many poets in the Spanish language who have left excellent lyrical works. In this compilation of short poems, we wanted to give priority to authors in the Spanish language, wanting to show the poetic production of our language.
All our short poems
Without further ado, we continue with our list of short poems . We do not want to comment further on the poems. Therefore, we limit ourselves to presenting them only by numbering them, placing the name of the poem and the author.
7.- Poem “Unveiled”, Gabriela Mistral
As I am a queen and I was a beggar,
now I live in pure tremor that you leave me,
and I ask you, pale, every hour:
Are you still with me? Oh, don’t go away! ”
I would like to do the marches smiling
and trusting now that you have come;
but even in sleep I’m afraid
and I ask between dreams: “Have you not gone?”
8.- Poem “Una brújula”, Jorge Luis Borges
All things are words of the
language in which someone or something, night and day,
write that infinite hubbub
which is the history of the world. In his flock
Carthage and Rome pass, I, you, him,
my life that I don’t understand, this agony
of being enigma, chance, cryptography
and all the discord of Babel.
Behind the name there is what is not named;
today I felt his shadow gravitate
in this blue needle, lucid and light,
that towards the edge of a sea tends its endeavor,
with some watch seen in a dream
and some sleeping bird that moves.
9.- Poem “Word”, Juan Gelman
You are my only word:
I dont know your name.
10.- Poem “I grow a white rose”, José Martí
Cultivate a white rose
in June as in January
For the honest friend
who gives me his frank hand
And for the cruel that tears me away
the heart with which I live,
Thistle or nettle cultivation;
I grow the white rose.
11.- Poem “El Desvío”, Pablo Neruda
If your foot strays again
will be cut off.
If your hand leads you to another path,
it will fall rotten.
If you take me out of your life
you will die even if you live.
You will still be dead or shadow,
walking the earth without me.
12.- Poem “La voz”, Heberto Padilla
It is not the guitar that makes you happy
or chase away fear at midnight.
It is not his round and meek staff
like an ox’s eye.
It is not the hand that grazes or clings to the strings
looking for the sounds,
but the human voice when it sings
and propagates the dreams of man.
13.- Poem “For competing with your hair”, Luis de Góngora
Meanwhile, to compete with your hair
gold burnished in the sun gleams in vain,
while with contempt in the middle of the plain
look at your white in front of the beautiful lily;
while to each lip, to catch it,
more eyes follow than the early carnation,
and while triumphing with lush disdain
from the shining crystal your gentle neck,
enjoys neck, hair, lip and forehead,
before what was in your golden age
gold, lily, carnation, shining crystal,
not only in silver or trunked vïola
it becomes, plus you and it together
on the ground, in smoke, in dust, in shadow, in nothing.
14.- Poem “On clear nights”, Gloria Fuentes
On clear nights
I solve the problem of the loneliness of being.
I invite the moon and with my shadow we are three.
15.- Poema “Metáforas”, Silvia Plath
Guess me: nine syllables
I have, elephant, big house,
melon with only two tentacles. O fruit, ivory, fine wood!
New money in this bag.
I am half, scene, pregnant cow.
I ate a lot of green apples.
Nobody gets off the train I’m on.
16.- Poem “Less your belly”, Miguel Hernández
Less your belly,
everything is confusing.
Less your belly,
everything is future
fleeting, past
barren, cloudy.
17.- Poem “In the ear of a girl”, Federico García Lorca
I did not want.
I didn’t want to tell you anything.
I saw in your eyes
two crazy little trees.
Of breeze, of laughter and of gold.
See me.
I did not want.
I didn’t want to tell you anything.
18.- Haikú, Jorge Luis Borges
Far a trill.
The nightingale does not know
that consoles you.
19.- Poem “Syndrome”, Mario Benedetti
I still have almost all my teeth
almost all my hair and very little gray
I can make and undo love
climb a ladder two at a time
and run forty meters behind the bus
so I shouldn’t feel old
but the serious problem is that before
I did not notice these details.
20.- Poem “Writing”, Eugenio Montejo
I will ever write with stones
measuring each of my sentences
for its weight, volume, movement.
I am tired of words.
No more pencil: scaffolding, theodolites,
the solar nudity of feeling
tattooing deep in the rocks
his secret music.
21.- Poem “When you climb to the heights”, Juan Sánchez Peláez
When you climb to the heights,
I scream in your ear:
We are mixed with the great evil of the earth.
I always feel strange.
Only
I survive
To the panic of the nights.
She-wolf inside me, unknown,
We are guests on the hill of dreams,
22.- Poem “Sueño”, María Calcaño
I look for the word dream.
You will take her
in the shadow of your blind children,
wrong with you.
Your beloved feet!
The rain rises in color
looking at your feet.
With you the shadow is soft …
23.- Poem “Caribe”, Alejandro Castro
Of all the monuments
man-made
my favorite is the sea.
24.- Poem “The sick rose”, William Blake
You are sick, oh rose!
The invisible worm
that flies at night
in the howling of the wind,
your bed discovered
of scarlet joy ,
and his dark and secret love
consume your life.
25.- Poem “The sick rose”, William Blake
Sometimes it seems to me
that we are in the center
from the party
Nevertheless
in the center of the party
no one
In the center of the party
there is emptiness
But in the center of the void
there is another party.
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Alexa Clark specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She has experience in listening and welcoming in Individual Therapy and Couples Therapy. It meets demands such as generalized anxiety, professional, love and family conflicts, stress, depression, sexual dysfunction, grief, and adolescents from 15 years of age. Over the years, She felt the need to conduct the psychotherapy sessions with subtlety since She understands that the psychologist acts as a facilitator of self-understanding and self-acceptance, valuing each person's respect, uniqueness, and acceptance.