Nanas de la Cebolla (Onion Lullabies), by Miguel Hernandez, 1939, was composed while the poet was in jail after the Spanish Civil War. It was sparked by a letter from his wife, where she told him that she only had bread and onions to eat, and that both she and his child suffered from severe […]
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Crown lullabies/Nanas de la corona
Posted in Fairy Tale, Guanajuato, Poetry, Spain, Writing on March 27, 2020 | 3 Comments »
The Pieces
Posted in Community, Guanajuato, Mosaic, Time on March 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I search again through the just-opened mound a 1000-piece puzzle a promise of calm, time without limit
String of broken promises / Cadena de promesas rotas
Posted in Guanajuato, Legends and Mythology, Love, Music on March 10, 2020 | 4 Comments »
[Many thanks/muchas gracias to my favorite princess, Kivieta Gutiérrez Suardíaz, for working with me to translate this poem into Spanish. Beware the enchantment legends -of a princess who lives in the bluffs awaiting the suitor who can withstand all temptation other than she waiting still no lover able to resist
The painter’s bed
Posted in Art, Spain on January 25, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I awake alone in the painter’s bed it takes a moment for my eyes to adjust my mind to register and then it comes back to me.
Art Gallery
Posted in Art on January 15, 2020 | 2 Comments »
The artist described each of the paintings looked from us to canvas to us again his eyes aglow told us what he liked about each one described subject, color, object placement even though his representational style made it rather clear.