neuropoeta in #hive-131951 • 16 hours agoA pesar de todo, siempre florecer [Esp/Eng]Hace unas semanas, mi terraza fue testigo de un pequeño crimen botánico. Tenía allí, en un viejo termo de café roto, unas episcias que había sembrado con especial cariño. No serán las plantasneuropoeta in #hive-180164 • 2 days agoOne of My First Paper Loves || Review [Eng/Esp]A few days ago, my teenage daughter asked me a simple yet profound question: Mom, what were the first books you read that you loved the most? I fell silent for a few seconds, looking atneuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 3 days agoIn the shade of a tree and memories [Eng/Esp]Today I came to sit in its shade, and I don’t know if it was the wind rustling its leaves or the unmistakable scent of its crushed fruit on the ground, but the fact is the afternoon trappedneuropoeta in #hive-180164 • 5 days agoLearn from the silences of love with Han Kang [Eng/Esp]Han Kang’s Greek Lessons, by that South Korean author who won the Nobel Prize a couple of years ago and whose name I sometimes forget but never forget what her words make me feel, came into mneuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 6 days agoThe coriander is flowering [Eng/Esp]I had always seen coriander as just another ingredient in the kitchen, and for us, it is not a simple garnish, rather, it is a pillar. I thinkneuropoeta in #hive-180164 • 8 days agoFeeling somewhat romantic while going through The Truce [Eng/Esp]Today I feel a little romantic and a little sad, like that strange mix that sometimes visits us without warning, like a lump in the throat that never quite forms but never quite dissolves eitneuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 8 days agoThe miracle of the cherimoyas [Eng/Esp]There are fruits that carry a story with them, a flavor that transports us directly to childhood, and for me, that fruit is, without a doubt, the cherimoya. From a very young age, I rememberneuropoeta in #hive-131951 • 10 days agoCuando el abandono emocional empieza en casa || Reflexión [Esp/Eng]Mientras leía la publicación que nos regalaba el imprescindible @emiliorios, recordaba que hace unos días, mientras revisaba a un paciente, me sorprendió mi propia reacción porque era un niñoneuropoeta in #hive-180164 • 11 days agoThe magic of a woman and her pen || Review [Eng/Esp]The magic that makes any literature accessible through digital means brought me to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as one approaches a fogged mirror, not quite knowing what face they will findneuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 12 days agoThe green and acidic treasure of my neighbors [Eng/Esp]There are certain things you cannot buy at the supermarket, nor do they come on trays wrapped in transparent plastic. I am talking about those that grow on the other side of the fence, almosneuropoeta in #hive-180164 • 13 days agoThe great Julio Cortázar and his poetry in me [Eng/Esp]Today is World Poetry Day, and although the date might sound like just another calendar event, for me it is a moment to pause and give thanks for the existence of something that cannot be fulneuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 16 days agoThe first avocados are already growing [Eng/Esp]Last night, while watering the garden, I stopped in front of Dad's avocado tree. The plant that began blooming over a month ago and about which I wrote [here](neuropoeta in #hive-180164 • 17 days agoMy Journey to the Heart of We || Review [Eng/Esp]There is something strangely addictive about peering into the abyss, and perhaps that is why, in recent weeks, my nightstand has become a sort of museum of political and social horrors, a hneuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 19 days agoThe magic of basil in my patio [Eng/Esp]A few days ago, while I was having breakfast in the yard, a scent reached me that transported me straight back to my childhood. I didn't even have to look up to know where it was coming from.neuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 22 days agoA wonder on the balcony [Eng/Esp]Today, as I crossed the threshold of my sister's building, I climbed the stairs with my mind set on a coffee and a casual chat, the kind of Sunday conversation that doesn't go down in history.neuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 24 days agoIn search of my first gardenia [Eng/Esp]A couple of days ago, when I arrived home after a long day of work, my daughter came running to greet me, as she always does, but this time with her little hands closed, keeping a secret. Shneuropoeta in #hive-180164 • 25 days agoThe Sin of Not Having Read Orwell Sooner || Review [Eng/Esp]I confess: for years, I accumulated the intellectual sin of ignoring George Orwell, even though friends, voracious readers, professors... everyone recommended two titles to me time and againeuropoeta in #hive-124452 • 26 days agoA afternoon of pure light || LOH Contest 279 [Eng/Esp]There is a moment in the day when the world stops making demands on me, and it is exactly when I step outside the hospital doors. For hours, my world has been a microcosm of fluorescent lighneuropoeta rebloggedlizandra in #hive-179291 • 27 days agoDesde ese lugar llamado poesía (ESP - ENG)Saludos: Hace algunos años —2002, para ser exacta—, Ediciones Sed de Belleza, de Santa Clara, publicaba mi primer cuaderno de poesía. Eran esos los poemas de mi adolescencia…neuropoeta in #hive-148441 • 27 days agoMy adenium and its promise of spring [Eng/Esp]A sigh is still missing for March to awaken spring, but I am already on the eve. From the gate of my garden, I look at the silhouette of my adenium and with a certainty that fills my chest,