OJO! William Carlos Williams PDF
OJO! William Carlos Williams PDF
OJO! William Carlos Williams PDF
"EL PENSADOR"
Las nuevas pantuflas rosas de mi mujer
tienen unos alegres pompones.
Ni una sola mancha, ni una mota
en su puntera de raso o en los laterales.
Por la noche descansan juntas
bajo su lado de la cama.
Por la mañana, entre tiritones,
las entreveo y me sonrío.
Más tarde las miro
bajar por la escalera,
pasar apresuradas por las puertas
y trajinar en torno a la mesa,
moviéndose con decisión
¡y con un bamboleo
de sus alegres pompones!
Y colmado de felicidad hablo con ellas
en mis adentros.
en su guarida
y la escritura
desveladas.
La belleza de
los terribles rostros
de nuestros don nadie
me mueve a hacerlo:
mujeres negras,
jornaleros andrajosos
–viejos y baqueteados–
de regreso al anochecer,
rostros como
viejo roble florentino.
También
vuestras caras
de cartón me mueven
–ciudadanos eminentes–
pero no
del mismo modo.
JUSTO ES DECIRLO
Me comí
las ciruelas
que había
en la nevera
y que
probablemente tú
reservabas
para desayunar
Perdóname
estaban deliciosas
tan dulces
y tan frías
LA COSA
nadie simplemente
suena y nosotros
amargamente la servimos
juntos, ellos y yo
UNA NEGRA
en un periódico viejo:
las lleva en alto, medio
Descubiertas,
la mole
de sus muslos
la hace ir
bamboleándose
mientras pasa
frente al aparador de una tienda
que se cruza en su camino.
Qué es
sino una embajadora
de otro mundo
un mundo de bellas caléndulas
de dos tonos
que ella ofrece
sin pensar nada más
solo
yendo por ahí
con las flores en alto
como una antorcha
muy temprano en la mañana.
HABLA LA SEÑORA
LA ACACIA ROSA
Poemas ( 1909 )
FIGURA MÉTRICA
ESTAS
Son las oscuras semanas desoladas
cuando la naturaleza en su aridez
iguala la estupidez del hombre.
Según Brueghel
cuando Ícaro cayó
era primavera
un granjero araba
su campo
todo el ceremonial
sudando al sol
que fundió
la cera de sus alas
no lejos
de las costa
hubo
Todo está en
el sonido. Una canción.
Muy rara vez una canción. Debiera
Danse Russe
If I when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees, --
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
"I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
if I admire my arms, my face
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades, --
Muier
Pastoral
No wreathes please --
especially no hot house flowers.
Some common memento is better,
something he prized and is known by:
his old clothes -- a few books perhaps --
God knows what! You realize
how we are about these things
my townspeople --
something will be found -- anything
even flowers if he had come to that.
So much for the hearse.
SOUR GRAPES
Blizzard
Snow:
years of anger following
hours that float idly down --
the blizzard
drifts its weight
deeper and deeper for three days
or sixty years, eh? Then
the sun! a clutter of
yellow and blue flakes --
Hairy looking trees stand out
in long alleys
over a wild solitude.
The man turns and there --
his solitary track stretched out
upon the world.
Complete Destruction
It was an icy day.
We buried the cat,
then took her box
and set fire to it
in the back yard.
Those fleas that escaped
earth and fire
died by the cold.
Queen-Anne's Lace
Her body is not so white as
anemony petals nor so smooth -- nor
so remote a thing. It is a field
of the wild carrot taking
the field by force; the grass
does not raise above it.
Here is no question of whiteness,
white as can be, with a purple mole
at the center of each flower.
Each flower is a hand's span
of her whiteness. Wherever
his hand has lain there is
a tiny purple blemish. Each part
is a blossom under his touch
to which the fibres of her being
stem one by one, each to its end,
until the whole field is a
white desire, empty, a single stem,
a cluster, flower by flower,
a pious wish to whiteness gone over --
or nothing.
Winter Trees
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.
The Late Singer
Here it is spring again
and I still a young man!
I am late at my singing.
The sparrow with the black rain on his breast
has been at his cadenzas for two weeks past:
What is it that is dragging at my heart?
The grass by the back door
is stiff with sap.
The old maples are opening
their branches of brown and yellow moth-flowers.
A moon hangs in the blue
in the early afternoons over the marshes.
I am late at my singing.
March
I
Winter is long in this climate
and spring--a matter of a few days
only,--a flower or two picked
from mud or from among wet leaves
or at best against treacherous
bitterness of wind, and sky shining
teasingly, then closing in black
and sudden, with fierce jaws.
II
March,
you reminded me of
the pyramids, our pyramids--
stript of the polished stone
that used to guard them!
March,
you are like Fra Angelico
at Fiesole, painting on plaster!
March,
you are like a band of
young poets that have not learned
the blessedness of warmth
(or have forgotten it).
At any rate--
I am moved to write poetry
for the warmth there is in it
and for the loneliness--
a poem that shall have you
in it March.
III
See!
Ashur-ban-i-pal,
the archer king, on horse-back,
in blue and yellow enamel!
with drawn bow--facing lions
standing on their hind legs,
fangs bared! his shafts
bristling in their necks!
Sacred bulls--dragons
in embossed brickwork
marching--in four tiers--
along the sacred way to
Nebuchadnezzar's throne hall!
They shine in the sun,
they that have been marching--
marching under the dust of
ten thousand dirt years.
Now--
they are coming into bloom again!
See them!
marching still, bared by
the storms from my calender
--winds that blow back the sand!
winds that enfilade dirt!
winds that by strange craft
have whipt up a black army
that by pick and shovel
bare a procession to
the god, Marduk!
Natives cursing and digging
for pay unearth dragons with
upright tails and sacred bulls
alternately--
in four tiers--
lining the way to an old altar!
Natives digging at old walls--
digging me warmth--digging me sweet loneliness
high enamelled walls.
IV
My second spring--
passed in a monastery
with plaster walls--in Fiesole
on the hill above 'Florence.
My second spring--painted
a virgin--in a blue aureole
sitting on a three-legged stool,
arms crossed--
she is intently serious,
and still
watching an angel
with colored wings
half kneeling before her--
and smiling--the angel's eyes
holding the eyes of Mary
as a snake's hold a bird's.
On the ground there are flowers,
trees are in leaf.
V
But! now for the battle!
Now for murder--now for the real thing!
My third springtime is approaching!
Winds!
lean, serious as a virgin,
seeking, seeking the flowers of March.
Seeking
flowers nowhere to be found,
they twine among the bare branches
in insatiable eagerness--
they whirl up the snow
seeking under it--
they--the winds--snakelike
roar among yellow reeds
seeking flowers--flowers.
I spring among them
seeking one flower
in which to warm myself!
I deride with all the ridicule
of misery--
my own starved misery.
Counter-cutting winds
strike against me
refreshing their fury!
Come, good, cold fellows!
Have we no flowers?
Defy then with even more
desperation than ever--being
lean and frozen!
But though you are lean and frozen--
think of the blue bulls of Babylon.
Fling yourselves upon
their empty roses--
cut savagely!
But--
think of the painted monastery
at Fiesole.
Berket and the Stars
A Celebration
April
A Goodnight
Romance Moderne
Tracks of rain and light linger in
the spongy greens of a nature whose
flickering mountain--bulging nearer,
ebbing back into the sun
hollowing itself away to hold a lake,--
or brown stream rising and falling at the roadside, turning about,
churning itself white, drawing
green in over it,--plunging glassy funnels
fall--
And--the other world--
the windshield a blunt barrier:
Talk to me. Sh! they would hear us.
--the backs of their heads facing us--
The stream continues its motion of
a hound running over rough ground.
Trees vanish--reappear--vanish:
detached dance of gnomes--as a talk
dodging remarks, glows and fades.
--The unseen power of words--
And now that a few of the moves
are clear the first desire is
to fling oneself out at the side into
the other dance, to other music.
Peer Gynt. Rip Van Winkle. Diana.
If I were young I would try a new alignment--
alight nimbly from the car, Good-bye!--
Childhood companions linked two and two
criss-cross: four, three, two, one.
Back into self, tentacles withdrawn.
Feel about in warm self-flesh.
Since childhood, since childhood!
Childhood is a toad in the garden, a
happy toad. All toads are happy
and belong in gardens. A toad to Diana!
Lean forward. Punch the steerman
behind the ear. Twirl the wheel!
Over the edge! Screams! Crash!
The end. I sit above my head--
a little removed--or
a thin wash of rain on the roadway
--I am never afraid when he is driving,--
interposes new direction,
rides us sidewise, unforseen
into the ditch! All threads cut!
Death! Black. The end. The very end--
I would sit separate weighing a
small red handful: the dirt of these parts,
sliding mists sheeting the alders
against the touch of fingers creeping
to mine. All stuff of the blind emotions.
But--stirred, the eye seizes
for the first time--The eye awake!--
anything, a dirt bank with green stars
of scrawny weed flattened upon it under
a weight of air--For the first time!--
or a yawning depth: Big!
Swim around in it, through it--
all directions and find
vitreous seawater stuff--
God how I love you!--or, as I say,
a plunge into the ditch. The End. I sit
examining my red handful. Balancing
--this--in and out--agh.
Love you? It's
a fire in the blood, willy-nilly!
It's the sun coming up in the morning.
Ha, but it's the grey moon too, already up
in the morning. You are slow.
Men are not friends where it concerns
a woman? Fighters. Playfellows.
White round thighs! Youth! Sighs--!
It's the fillip of novelty. It's--
Mountains. Elephants humping along
against the sky--indifferent to
light withdrawing its tattered shreds,
worn out with embraces. It's
the fillip of novelty. It's a fire in the blood.
Oh get a flannel shirt, white flannel
or pongee. You'd look so well!
I married you because I liked your nose.
I wanted you! I wanted you
in spite of all they'd say--
Rain and light, mountain and rain,
rain and river. Will you love me always?
--A car overturned and two crushed bodies
under it.--Always! Always!
And the white moon already up.
White. Clean. All the colors.
A good head, backed by the eye--awake!
backed by the emotions--blind--
River and mountain, light and rain--or
rain, rock, light, trees--divided:
rain-light counter rocks-trees or
trees counter rain-light-rocks or--
Myriads of counter processions
crossing and recrossing, regaining
the advantage, buying here, selling there
--You are sold cheap everywhere in town!--
lingering, touching fingers, withdrawing
gathering forces into blares, hummocks,
peaks and rivers--rivers meeting rock
--I wish that you were lying there dead
and I sitting here beside you.--
It's the grey moon--over and over.
It's the clay of these parts.
Willow Poem
Approach of Winter
January
Winter Tres
Thursday
I have had my dream--like others--
and it has come to nothing, so that
I remain now carelessly
with feet planted on the ground
and look up at the sky--
feeling my clothes about me,
the weight of my body in my shoes,
the rim of my hat, air passing in and out
at my nose--and decide to dream no more.
Spring
O my grey hairs!
You are truly white as plum blossoms.
Play
Thursday
The Poor
Complete Destruction
Memory of April
Epitaph
Daisy
Primrose
Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!
It is not a color.
It is summer!
It is the wind on a willow,
the lap of waves, the shadow
under a bush, a bird, a bluebird,
three herons, a dead hawk
rotting on a pole--
Clear yellow!
It is a piece of blue paper
in the grass or a threecluster of
green walnuts swaying, children
playing croquet or one boy
fishing, a man
swinging his pink fists
as he walks--
It is ladysthumb, forget-me-nots
in the ditch, moss under
the flange of the carrail, the
wavy lines in split rock, a
great oaktree--
It is a disinclination to be
five red petals or a rose, it is
a cluster of birdsbreast flowers
on a red stem six feet high,
four open yellow petals
above sepals curled
backward into reverse spikes--
Tufts of purple grass spot the
green meadow and clouds the sky.
Queen Anne's Lace
Great Mullen
The Hunter
of July
the days, locked in each other's arms,
seem still
so that squirrels and colored birds
go about at ease over
the branches and through the air.
Where will a shoulder split or
a forehead open and victory be?
Nowhere.
Both sides grow older.
And you may be sure
not one leaf will lift itself
from the ground
and become fast to a twig again.
Arrival
The Thinker
The Birds
The Nightingales
My shoes as I lean
unlacing them
stand out upon
flat worsted flowers
under my feet.
Nimbly the shadows
of my fingers play
unlacing
over shoes and flowers.
Spouts
In this world of
as fine a pair of breasts
as ever I saw
the fountain in
Madison Square
spouts up of water
a white tree
that dies and lives
as the rocking water
in the basin
turns from the stonerim
back upon the jet
and rising there
reflectively drops down again.
Blueflags
I will wear
the romper
that was in
the pictures
and which
you were probably
hoping
I'd thrown out
Forgive me
it is ridiculous
so light
and so comfortable
by a spirit of uselessness
which delights them --
for this
to be warned against
It is beauty itself
that lives
This is
the power of their faces
permanently, seriously
without thought
so much depends
XXII
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
XVIII
addressed to cheap
jewelry
and rich young men with fine eyes
No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
que me comí
los prunos
y que
seguramente
tenías guardados
para el desayuno
Perdóname
estaban estupendos
tan dulces
y tan fríos
Paterson
"The Horse"
Todo está en el
sonido. Un canto.
Raramente un canto. Debería ser
un canto –hecho de
detalles, avispas,
una genciana –algo
inmediato, tijeras
abiertas, el ojo de
una dama –despertando
centrífugo, centrípeto.
"It Must Be Abstract".
Surgido de la desesperación,
inconcluso,
el descenso
despierta a un nuevo mundo
que es el reverso
de la desesperación.
Para lo que no podemos lograr, lo que
se niega al amor,
lo que perdimos por anticiparnos,
se abre un descenso
sin fin, e indestructible .
El panorama es el invierno
montañas nevadas
al fondo el retorno
Imaginaciones ( 1970 )
Creo
Que todo va a estallar en círculos
Una llama gigante envolverá a este tren
En este instante.
No pasa nada.
Si la vieras.
Salgo de la estación.
Entre los caníbales del Barrio Chino
Las carteras perfectas
Muchos ojos azules encima
Niebla, paseo de gente sacudida.
VIEJO SICAMORO
I just tell you
(whose water
is trickling) rises
bodily
one undulant
and then
sending out
young branches on
all sides--
hung with cocoons
it thins
but two
eccentric knotted
twigs
bending forward
entre el mojado
pavimento y la alcantarilla
(gli-glu de agua
de cuerpo entero
se aploma se dispersa
dividido
y se adelgaza
sino dos
excéntricos anudados
vástagos
medialuna en la punta
Paterson, 3
Los delineamientos de los gigantes (3)
Andan incomunicados, la
ecuación no tiene solución, aunque
su sentido es claro —que ellos pueden vivir
el pensamiento de él está asentado en la guía
telefónica—
Y por derivación, hacia las Grandes Cataratas,
¡al carajo! ¡el gigante ataca! La buena Muncie*, también
¡Buscaban lo milagroso!
¡Comienzan!
Las perfecciones se agudizan
La flor despliega sus pétalos coloridos
abiertos al sol
Pero la lengua de la abeja
falla
Vuelven a hundirse en la greda
gritando
—puedes decir que es un grito
que sube por ellas, un escalofrío
mientras se marchitan y desparecen:
El matrimonio tiene consecuencias
estremecedoras
Gritar
o conformarse con una satisfacción menor:
unos pocos van
a la Costa sin ganancia—
Les falla el lenguaje
mueren también
incomunicados.
El lenguaje, el lenguaje
los traiciona
No saben las palabras
o no tienen
el coraje de usarlas
—chicas de
familias venidas a menos y
llevadas a los montes: sin palabras.
Pueden observar el torrente en
sus mentes
y les resulta ajeno. .
Dan la espalda
y se marean—¡pero se recuperan!
La vida es dulce
dicen: ¡el lenguaje!
—el lenguaje
divorciado de sus mentes,
el lenguaje . . ¡el lenguaje!
II.
El divorcio es
el signo del conocimiento en nuestra época,
¡divorcio! ¡divorcio!
Dos—
distintas entre las
aguas que caen de sus cabellos en el que nada se
funde—
¡Indios!
El tema
según se demuestra: dormido, no identificado—
todo de una pieza, solo
en un viento que no mueve a los demás—
de ese modo: un modo de pasar
una tarde de domingo mientras el arbusto verde se agita.
En el malecón un pequeño
cono compacto (enebro),
que tiembla frenético
en el vendaval indiferente: viril—permanece
enraizado allí .
¡Aliento!
Heladas montañas
Es hacia el anochecer
Desde la izquierda
Colgado de un herraje
Anteportal desierto
Contemplar la pintura.
Sin un rojo
Muestra en la composición un grupo
Desde un extremo
Terminan y detrás
JUEGO DE NIÑOS
Atestado
De niños
Nadan
De hojas todo
Es movimiento
Puesto de frituras
Un matrimonio en juego un
Bautismo
Hacia un
Tonel vacío
¡Claramente!
Da el petirrojo su orden. ¡Claramente!
claramente!
—y observa, ¡ensimismado! una rama
del árbol en el borde de la catarata, una
rama moteada, retenida,
entre el vaivén de las ramas
del grueso sicomoro
hamacándose menos, entre las demás, separada, lentamente
con la torpeza de una jirafa, levemente
en un largo eje, tan leve
que apenas si se nota, en ella la tormenta:
Así
definitivamente NO la universidad,
un brote verde caído sobre el pavimento su
dulce aliento suprimido: Divorcio (la
lengua tartamudea)
inexperta:
¡Divorcio!
Mientras
el arbusto verde se mece: de allí
saco mi aliento, hamacándose, de una pieza,
separado, animándose brevemente, por un instante
sin temor . .
Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze.
Gaining and failing
they are buffeted
by a dark wind --
But what?
On harsh weedstalks
the flock has rested --
the snow
is covered with broken
see husks
and the wind tempered
with a shrill
piping of plenty
THE TEMPERS
Transitional
First he said:
It is the woman in us
That makes us write--
Let us acknowledge it--
Men would be silent.
We are not men
Therefore we can speak
And be conscious
(of the two sides)
Unbent by the sensual
As befits accuracy.
I then said:
Dare you make this
Your propaganda?
And he answered:
Am I not I--here?
RIPOSTE
my townspeople ;
Love is so precious
my townspeople
that if I were you I would
have it under lock and key
like the air or the Atlantic or
like poetry!
Pastoral
Pastoral
K. McB.
Lie basking in
the sun then fast asleep !
Even become dust on occasion.
POESÍA CHINA
Li Bai
Conversación en la montaña
Alabanza al vino
Amarre nocturno
Salida de Poi-ti
El santuario de la cumbre
La cumbre, el monasterio.
Ya es noche. Alzo la mano
y toco a las estrellas.
Hablo en voz baja: temo
que se despierte el cielo.
"El mundo está lleno de pequeñas alegrías: el arte consiste en saber distinguirlas."
A mi amor lejano
Cuando estabas, las flores llenaban la casa.
Y al aire, dejaste el lecho vacío.
La manta bordada, doblada, permanece intacta.
Tres años ya han transcurrido,
pero tu fragancia no se disipa.
¿Dónde estarás, amor mío?
Te añoro, y de los árboles caen hojas amarillas
Lloro, y sobre el verde musgo brilla el rocío.
Conversación en la montaña
mi cortina de raso?
Melancolía primaveral
Montando un caballo blanco con silla dorada,
mi esposo se fue a la guerra.
Bajo cortinas de seda,
A través de la ventana
a mi agonizante candelabro.
se asoman a mi morada
...
Nuestro lecho.
Du Fu
Bai Juyi
Han Yu
Liu Zongyuan
Ouyang Xiu
Su Xun
Su Shi
Su Zhe
Wang Anshi
Zeng Gong
POESÍA JAPONESA
Sankichi Toogue
El 6 de agosto
Azuma Kondo
Así pues, yo
caminando por una calle tranquila de muchos templos.
Muros largos, las puertas de los templos alineados
Arboles enormes que sombreaban la calle.
El canto de las cigarras.
Nobuo Ayukawa
Hombre muerte
Miyoshi Nagashimi
Mercado de esclavos
Soy un esclavo
y los huesos del esclavo vitalicio
tienen que moverse
como pesadas ruedas oxidadas
en esta alba civilización cristiana.
Sea perro o
buey
puede darle alimento para gallinas.
Era, para mí, una larga
larga ruptura con la humanidad.
Acostumbrada a habitar la tierra tenebrosa
mi cabeza
quedó seca como el trigo.
De noche me acosté en el heno
y conté las estrellas del mundo
una por una.
Eran más dulces que las cañas del azúcar
liberadas del dolor, del vocerío y los látigos de cuero.
Contemplé aquellas estrellitas
remotas piedras frías
hasta que se desvanecieron.
Oh, esclavos
para los hombres amarillos, tan diferentes
esta civilización cristiana
es demasiado cruel para nosotros.
Cuando me desperté
de repente un zapato enorme
pisoteó mi cara como si fuera grava.
―Ya está muerto…
Compra otro‖.
Oh, amigos, oh cristianos himnos.
Oh, Merry Christmas.
Compra otro esclavo nuevo.
Iku Takenaka
Japón turístico
Vendemos el Fujiyama
Vendemos Miyadyima
Vendemos Nikko
Vendemos todo el Japón
Naruto y Aso
Todo lo vendemos.
Vengan, vengan por favor.
Sabemos frotarnos las manos
y producir sonrisas artificiales.
Mucho, mucho dinero, ¡qué maravilla!
Todos los japoneses compramos car
Todos los japoneses gustamos de los encendedores
Todos los japoneses somos buenos jardineros
Todos los japoneses cantamos boogie-woogie
Todos hacemos caravanas
Todos somos honrados, ¡Sí señor!
GOETHE
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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE:
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POEMAS FUTURISTAS
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MADRIGAL A UN BILLETE DE TRANVÍA
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LOS CALIGRAMAS
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EL SURREALISMO
POEMAS SURREALISTAS FRANCESES.
PABLO NERUDA
RESIDENCIA EN LA TIERRA
CESAR MORO
EL CREACIONISMO
NON SERVIAM
CREACIONISMO
VICENTE HUIDOBRO
Arte poética
ALTAZOR (FRAGMENTOS)
JOAQUÍN PASOS
TRILCE
T. S. ELIOT
La tierra baldía
LA POSTVANGUARDIA
Selección de poemas.
ERNESTO CARDENAL
LUIS CERNUDA
NICANOR PARRA
ANTONIO CISNEROS
ODYSEAS ELYTIS
GIORGOS SEFERIS
MAMHUD DARWISH.
ADONIS
(Ali Ahmad Said)
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