La poesía es una aventura infinita/Poetry is an Infinite Adventure

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Writing poetry is an adventure I haven’t wanted to miss out on for decades.

A challenge, a risk I embrace with the same passion and determination I had when I first dared to confront the blank page with rhymed verses from my room as a teenager. Words seduce with their irreplaceable complicity; the poem seduces and allows itself to be seduced; the muse is the one who ultimately decides, in an act of love, and harmoniously unleashes the unstoppable force of language. A poem is a conjunction that achieves an expression greater than what previously existed on the blank page, emerging from a thought.

A poem is the communion of the senses, the creation of a particular, unique language that had never existed before, and that emerges to the surface with a special form and content. The poem gradually takes on a life of its own with every reading, as it passes from hand to hand, circulating in the anonymity of time and everyday life. It no longer fully belongs to its author—it gathers new perspectives, interpretations, travels, and moves others who engage with it through their own senses, experience, culture, and sensitivity. Poetry is not a static cultural product; words come alive in the imagination not only of their creator, for they are capable of stirring, unsettling, and touching even the most distracted of readers.

Poetry should aim to keep the novice in the art of words attentive, and to alert even the most experienced, yes, the most weathered of men—those who expect nothing from the future and may believe their fate is already sealed—to beauty, freedom, and life. A poem is a profoundly transformative experience of language; it goes beyond everyday life even when it speaks of it, gives new meaning to things, and becomes the voice of the Tribe.

A poem may have only one face, or many; it may be a mirror of itself, but in your eyes, dear reader, it is unique and unrepeatable.

Poetry, to the poet’s fortune, is an exercise that knows the ineffable mysteries of the word.

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