Western Voices: Alicia Minjarez Ramirez

Bio:

Poetess, Translator, Singer, University Professor, Broadcast locution Radio and T.V.

Alicia Minjarez Ramírez was born in Tijuana, Mexico. She is an internationally renowned poetess and author who has won numerous awards including the EASAL medal by the European Academy of Sciences and Letters 2018 at Paris, France. Awarded "Pride of the Globe" WNWU, Kazakhstan 2018; Awarded with Honorable Mention in the category: Foreign Poetry, of the International Poetry Prize Poseidonia Paestrum, Edition XXIV, Italy 2018. Awarded "Universal Inspirational Poet", Pentasi B. World, India 2017; Winner of a special mention and a medal in the International Poetry Prize NOSSIDE Italy 2015, recognized by UNESCO. Awarded with the IWA BOGDANI Albania Award, 2016. Awarded with the Third Place in French Poetry in the International Poetry Prize ‘Sous les traces de Léopold Sédar Senghor” at Milan, Italy, 2016 recognized by ONU and UNESCO. Winner of a mention in the NOSSIDE Poetry Prize, Italy 2016. Awarded "Universal Inspirational Poet" Pentasi B. World, Africa, Ghana 2016.

She was considered among the International Poets published  in the XXI Century World Literature Book released at New Delhi, India, 2016.  Her poems have been translated into: English, Albanian, French, Cameroonian, Arabic, Azerbaijan, Turkish, Chinese, Taiwanese, Portuguese, Polish and  Italian. And published in more than 140 International Anthologies, journals and magazines around the world. 

LONTANANZAS

Translated by: Alaric Gutiérrez

I built you up

From diaphanous drops

That clarify

The thin contour

Of the wind’s arms.

Those dancing

Upon my face,

Hold up and excuse

The rising of

Light stealth birds

On the horizon.

Sky wings bearing

Fragrant

Polyphonic aromas,

Diluting moist loams

In vetiver and bergamot,

Disseminated

Over your body’s

Drought.

I envision you

In my silent

Barren palms,

As drops upon my river;

Ecstatic the open sea

Conspires,

Flows against formed

Verbal tide,

In ivy language.

Warp naked

Fanciful voices,

Dawning deep

Inside my skin,

Cracking

Desire’s opacity.  

I built you up!

While it rains.

LOVERS

Translated by: Alaric Gutiérrez

           

Longing mitigates

the drunken night,

treasuring the imprint

abolished by desire

that breaks us

and brings together,

intrinsic fire

of profane verses

under the intrigue

of shadows.

Materiality keeps

our bodies tied up to

the lunar instant

of balsamic ether,

burning desires

falling apart

evaporating

the mossy seduction

of having the absolute void.

You’re dust in the breeze

of my conscious being,

bringing delightful

and melodic essences

inside hollow fruit trees

of worn out headings.

Imprecise and sharp legend

of upcoming evenings,

barking at the sap sight.

Derange me, seduce me, drive me.

Like a consonant plunging

upon the rhetorical memory,

dialect upsetting and chaining us up

beyond our hands.

Exhalation,

dementia without sanity

defining my earthly Nirvana,

meanwhile, I belong to you

under the remote

silence glass…

By rubbing

your timely spike.

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Western Voices :: Setu, February 2019