“Hummingbird Love … (dedicated to you)”
Translated by Janie N. Paz
Hummingbird Love… (dedicated to you)
In the dark night from my window
I dream of your arrival hummingbird of the dawn
Embraced to the flight that is born from your wings
I want to be wind that combs your grace
A thousand sighs I place on the silent flower
that lives in the kisses upon the window
In the dark night of this love that bleeds
I am perfume and leprechaun of your dawn
I am the texture, a caress in fervor
Tenderness of a fire that gilds the soul
If when reading me you notice that I sleep in oblivion
turn off your moon and light up my desire…
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Original poem by Ricardo Martell
Amor de Colibrí… (dedicado a ti)
En la noche oscura desde mi ventana,
sueño que tu llegas colibrí del alba
Abrazado al vuelo que nace en tus alas
yo quiero ser viento que peine tu gracia
Mil suspiros pongo en la flor callada
que habita en los besos sobre la ventana
En la noche oscura de este amor que sangra
soy perfume y duende de tu madrugada
Yo soy la textura, la caricia en llama
ternura de un fuego que te dora el alma
Si al leerme adviertes que duermo en la nada
apaga tu luna y enciende mis ganas…
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Janie N. Paz
“Janie N. Paz is a third-year Wildlife Conservation Biology major who will be transferring to the University of California, Davis for Fall Quarter of 2018. She was born in Baja California, Mexico and is a first-generation college student. Her passion started when she was a young child, bound with curiosity about biological sciences, she read atlases of science and watched National Geographic. Janie is ambitious and passionate about environmental sustainability and will conduct her own research on tropical forests this summer at Biosphere 2. Whenever she is not studying biology she likes to spend time with her fiancé at UCSD, play mariachi on violin, make pottery, lift weights, and read about mesoamerican languages and cultures.”
Ricardo Martell Caminos
Ricardo Martell Caminos was born in Verapaz, El Salvador, on September 1, 1919. He died in San Salvador on March 8, 1989. He devoted himself to teaching in educational centers of the country after studying Humanities. In 1939, he began to publish his literary works in the main newspapers of the country, and since then he has won various awards for his works.