El poema me ha escrito,
no sé cuantas veces.
Me acompaña
en cada silencio,
descifra mis labios,
pero nunca repite
las mismas palabras,
como si no terminara
de conocerme.
Rolando Gabrielli2026
¿Qué sabe el poema del poema?,
balbuceo, nacimiento de la palabra,
reencuentro de sí mismo,
nada, nada, todavía.
Ser y saber, sus palabras son únicas
Aún cuando solo sea especulación,
ensayo y error, ejercicio, revelación.
Forma y contenido son uno,
en la unidad.
Rolando Gabrielli2026
What Does the Poem Know of the Poem?
What does the poem know of the poem?
Hiroshima fue la
lotería de la muerte,
una carnicería que
cayó del cielo,
un 6 de agosto de
1945
a las 8.15 de la mañana,
en Japón.
En un abrir y cerrar
de ojos,
solo polvo,
cenizas, asfixia,
un aire
irrespirable,
murió hasta el
silencio.
El hongo ascendió
a los cielos
con 70 mil almas.
La hora de
Hiroshima
es la hora de la
memoria.
Rolando Gabrielli2026
Hiroshima
Hiroshima was the lottery of death,
a slaughter that fell from the sky,
on August 6, 1945,
at 8:15 in the morning,
in Japan.
In the blink of an eye,
there was only dust,
ashes,
suffocation,
air no one could breathe.
Even silence died.
The mushroom cloud rose into the heavens,
bearing seventy thousand souls.
The hour of Hiroshima
is the hour of remembrance.
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Hiroshima fue arrasada en casi un 90 por ciento. Del primer impacto murieron setenta mil personas, de una población de 350 mil. Por los efectos de las radiaciones de la bomba, llamada Little Boy, murieron en total 140 mil japoneses.
Hay poetas que atraviesan
en silencio su propia historia.
Por eso pregunto:
qué llegó a saber Pessoa
de Pessoa?
Quizás fue su más
desconocido autor,
el otro que no llegó
a conocer.
Rolando Gabrielli2026
There are poets who move
silently through
their own history.
So I ask:
What did Pessoa
ever come to know
of Pessoa?
Perhaps he was
his own most
unknown author—
the other self
he never came
to know.
No hagas ruido,
algo va a despertar,
el tiempo está dormido,
aparentemente inmóvil,
un alma libre no hace ruidos
ni frente al mar,
solo sabemos que está.
Deja que todo ocurra,
comience a fluir,
cierra los ojos,
lo desconocido no avisa,
va a pasar.
Rolando Gabrielli2026
El amor,
visible o invisible,
es invencible.
Rolando Gabrielli2026
Love,
visible or invisible,
is invincible.
For My Unknown Readers
ROLANDO GABRIELLI
The blank page has been my greatest influence and my most demanding teacher. It knows my doubts, my hesitations, my frustrations, my achievements, and, above all, my sleepless nights. Success belongs to the box office, to the subtle arithmetic of stars aligned across the planet. Poetry follows its own course through history, confronting death with the living force of its emotions and its words.
Poetry is the one art that composes its own music and conducts its own orchestra whenever it chooses.
In these turbulent times, marked by aggression and by the threats of apocalyptic prophets against the most vulnerable, it is difficult to imagine an artist withdrawn upon a cloud, watching as the world and humankind burn together in the same fire.
The world—and those who conduct the true orchestra—has not needed to declare a Third World War for us to witness the horror and terror of its own masterpiece.
We have all been warned that we walk upon a sheet of glass, like elephants balancing on a spider's web, staring into the void cast by their own shadows.
This is a century that seems strangely comfortable with human folly, a folly that has gained absolute dominion over the most intelligent species on Earth—the very species bent on its own destruction.
Poetry is yourself and everything around you: what you read, where you travel, what you eat—in a word, your life. Alphabet soup is an old metaphor, yet it remains the finest nourishment for a poet: to ingest the alphabet, the dictionary, and every page that has been written, as well as every page still waiting to be written. No junk food. No disposable literature. Simply put, poetry is life. It is the perpetual present that gathers the past while living each day, nourishing who you are and what you do, your own circumstances, and that enduring hope we call the future.
Nature itself, and human nature, belong to this poetic realm—to the word that names, founds, and, at times, even prophesies.
Never forget: what matters is not who speaks the last word, but whether it is a new word—and a true one.
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La disciplina del martillo,
es implacable,
golpear, golpear,
hasta dar
en el clavo.
Rolando Gabrielli2026
The discipline of the hammer
is relentless:
strike, strike,
until
you hit
the nail on the head.
