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I have known the immensity of the sky high above the roses
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
Me, fatalist,/watching life coming and going/from my contemporaries...Me, inside myself,/always waiting for something/that my mind can't define.
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
I don't know where or when/but I know you will arrive.
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
Me he sentido llegar allí donde se mueren/las canciones felices
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
At each advancing step on my route forward/back was ripped by the desperate flapping wings of the old guard.
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
Worker who lifts the world!/Worker who colors everything!/Hand that pushes the future
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
At your chest Martí, I knock among tears/in this hour of man and of war,/so you may arrive, at peace, awake,/over the greatest pain of America.
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
Do not fear the look that will empty my heart in you
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
It is no longer a song./It is a battlecry./Battlecry of living strength,/of men who struggle,/of minds that free themselves,/of free arms/ready not to fall./The masses roar./They think./They are.
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
the great death waits to gather me in its stars.
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
You gave heart to the universe/that hid in me
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
Workers! Slash the fear./Yours is the naked earth./Leap hunger and death/over the deep lagoon,/and join the peasants/and those knotted to the cane./Break a million fists/against so unjust a morality!/Raise, raise your arms!
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
And yet, you have not died Martí, you only sleep;/the earth requested you like a flag
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
I am your root hidden among rocks and thorns
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
Carry yourself seriously but speak with a sweet voice. Humiliate no one, since, as you know, adolescence is characterized by unbridled self-love, and when a teacher shines light on the good qualities of a child, it does much more than focusing on their vices.
Look, the rich are bankrolled/where your suffering begins
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
we shall dance the dance of life/to the rhythm of a fire of light/that will burst from the sun.
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
And still they ask me to trade songs for words,/they can't imagine my pulse without poems
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
Only leave me as I am, dreaming/of being a morning star courting the sun
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)
The shadow of tomorrow stands watch over my life
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)