Dear Diary, page 2

Today an old friend arrived in town and you know that when you get a visitor from out of town who has never visited your city you kind of become a tour guide. It’s fun, you get to see things that you’ve taken for granted, you get to perhaps get to know your city a

Dear Diary, page 2

El pensamiento del día – The Thought of the Day

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“Si casi nunca podemos resolver, o descifrar las cosas cotidianas, ¿cómo vamos a pretender que conocemos los misterios de nuestro mundo y nuestro universo?”

“If we can barely understand or solve our daily challenges, what makes us think we can know or understand the mysteries of our world or our universe?”

FRANCISCO BRAVO CABRERA

Bon dia!

Creo que todos los españoles sabemos a quien se refiere esto…

#poem, “Little Purple Trees”

Those Little Purple Trees(Listening to Mozart’s Oboe Quartet K.370) So they’ve discovered space and planets,with telescopes and instruments that measureeven the slightest degrees of their absolute silence,and they say it’s a void dark and eternal,they call it the universe and say it’s empty.But it isn’t, no, not at all.In those places, that now we cannot

#poem, “Little Purple Trees”

Hoy en LatinosUSA: Francisco Bravo Cabrera: Poemas cortos

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AZUL Luz de neónparpadea en la viga centenaria.Chasquido de maracascontra la cuarta aumentada:el azul golpea la retina,dispara la sinapsishasta la uña que tañe el acero. Teclas negras del piano.Filo de dientes—sabuesos al acechoen la penumbra. +++ BLANCO Pentagrama sin sombras:el piano insiste solo en teclas blancas.Murmullo gris,el hielo se deshace en el whiskey.Corbatas negras, aflojadas.Un

Francisco Bravo Cabrera: Poemas cortos

El pensamiento del día – The Thought of the Day

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“Dicen que un pueblo unido jamas será vencido, pero es mentira. ‘El pueblo’ no existe. La masa, que es otra cosa, si, pero la masa es veleidosa y cuando la mandan a actuar nunca se sabe lo que van a hacer. El pueblo pide derechos pero ignora sus deberes. El pueblo tiene que trabajar si quiere beneficios. El gobierno no tiene porque meterse en las cosas del pueblo.”

“They say that that the ‘people’ united are ‘invincible’ but it’s a lie. There is no such thing as ‘the people’. There are the masses; and the masses are fickle. So when they are motivated to go out and ‘act’ one never knows what they will end up doing. ‘The people’ demand rights but ignore their duties. The ‘people’ have to work to earn benefits and the government has no right to intervene or interfere.”

FRANCISCO BRAVO CABRERA