7 short poems written by women that you should read this World Poetry Day

Today is the birth of Benito Juárez, the death anniversary of Pocahontas, World Down Syndrome Day; Plus, it’s World Poetry Day, which means you should know some of the poems written by women, which you can recite all day as spring begins.

1. Alfonsina StorniArgentine poet and writer.

Peace

We go towards the trees… the dream
It will be done in us by celestial virtue.

We go towards the trees; the night
It will be soft for us, the sadness will be light.

We go towards the trees, the soul
Drowsy with wild perfume.
But be silent, do not speak, be pious;
Don’t wake up the sleeping birds.

2. Blanca VarelaPeruvian poet, winner of the Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry and Essay

love is like music

Love is like music,
He returns me empty-handed,
eventually it flashes on
out of paradise.
I know an island,
my memories,
and a future music,
the promise.

And I go towards death that does not exist,
which is called horizon in my chest.
Always eternity at the wrong time.

3. Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, diplomat and pedagogue. First Ibero-American to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

The love that is silent

If I hated you, my hatred would give you
in words, resounding and sure;
but I love you and my love is not trusted
to this talk about men, so dark.

You would like it turned into a scream,
and it comes from so deep that it has undone
its burning stream, faint,
before the throat, before the chest.

I’m the same as a full pond
and I seem like an inert fountain to you.
All for my troubled silence
which is more atrocious than entering into death!

4. Rosario Castellanos, considered one of the most important writers in Mexico. She was orphaned at an early age, which motivated her to write and become the first writer in Chiapas.

Poetry is not you

Because if you existed
I would have to exist too. And that is a lie.

There is nothing but us: the couple,
the sexes reconciled in a son,
the two heads together, but not looking at each other
(so as not to turn anyone into a mirror)
but looking in front of oneself, towards the other.

The other: mediator, judge, balance
between opposites, witness,
knot in which what had been broken is tied.

The other, the muteness that asks for a voice
to the one who has the voice
and claims the ear of the listener.

The other. With the other
humanity, dialogue, poetry, begin.

5. Gloria FuertesSpanish poet linked to the postwar movement and postism.

The heart of the Earth

The heart of the Earth
He has men who tear him apart.
The Earth is very old.
suffers heart attacks
—in his guts—.
Its volcanoes,
they beat too much
due to excess of hate and lava.

The Earth is not for many trots
she’s tired.
When they bury in it
children with shrapnel
They make him gag.

6.Emily Dickinson, the American poet who, confined at home, wrote up to 1,800 poems.

Dream

To escape from the earth
a book is the best ship;
and you travel better in the poem
that in the most spirited and swift steed

Even the poorest can do it,
You have to pay nothing for it:
the soul in the transport of your dream
It is nourished only by silence and peace.

7. Rosalía de Castro, Spanish writer who wrote in both Spanish and Galician. Her work “Galician Songs” is considered the first great work of Galician literature.

Shores of the salt flat

Through the evergreen foliage
That hearing leaves strange rumors,
And among a sea of ​​undulating greenery,
Loving mansion of birds,
From my windows I see
The temple that I loved so much.

The temple that I loved so much…
Well, I can’t say anymore if I love him,
That in the rough coming and going that without respite
My thoughts are agitated,
I doubt if the grim resentment
Live united with love in my chest