Faith saved us from the savages that we were, losing faith makes us savages again
Ni la libertad ni la independencia se mendiga, se gana luchando. José Martí, apóstol de la libertad de Cuba. Libertad que tristemente perdió cuando un Judas llamado Fidel traicionó al pueblo y lo esclavizó con el comunismo.
He wrote this little beauty in 2005 and hails from British Columbia, Canada… that’s just about it, but the song is great. «You Had a Bad Day» was top of the Billboard Hot 100 for five whole weeks!
I reckon we’ve all had a bad day every once in a while…
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One of the first songs I ever learned to play (a non-Beatle song that is) was «Fire and Rain». And that was in 1970 when I was starting High School in Miami, Florida! Wow! So many years ago! I was really impressed with this North American singer-songwriter, singing calmly with his acoustic guitar while everybody else was jamming like maniacs. So I bought the album and «Sweet Baby James» quickly became one of my favourites…
Hope you like it…
I chose this version because I liked the story he told about writing this tune. I had no idea why it was called Sweet Baby James and now, after fifty two years, I know. Maybe it is the same for you…
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Sin abrirse en el olvido queda cerrada la puerta,
nadie sale, nadie entra sólo el aire,
y el recuerdo de las risas, y los ecos de los pasos bailan con las hojas muertas.
C.2022, Francis Bravo Cabrera, 22 MAR 2022, València, España.
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El Euro-Ku es una forma poética que he desarrollado en homenaje al Haiku tradicional, pero con un pensamiento típicamente europeo. Debe ser escrito con palabras simples, expresar un pensamiento coherente y claro y estar acompañado de una foto original que aclare el mensaje de los versos, que son tres, sin limitaciones de sílabas.
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As smoke that always finds the cracks and crevices to pass through wood that’s seen centuries race,
I pass each day through my front door like a ghost with a happy heart and a smiling face,
knowing that the door that lets me out keeps out the rains…
C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 20 March 2022, Valencia, Spain
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Ya no se enfrenta a las sombras de humo que poblaban sus recuerdos,
ya sabe resistir y ya resiste sin temor, su compromiso, su valor,
es el futuro que la espera con abrazos y con besos y ella, con el filo intransigente de su coraza, conoce su razón.
C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 08 de marzo de 2022, Valencia, España
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As timeless as space and in spaces within moments that surround us, filling our miseries with gladness,
his power is carved into the rocks of the Earth, with a love so long, so deep, so ageless,
that it guides our life with light though hidden in the mountains, carved into the cliffs or sculpted in the bottom of the Sea…
C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 19 March 2022, Valencia, Spain
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The Euro-Ku is a form of poetry that I developed very recently, see: (https://paintinginvalencia.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/my-new-poetic-invention-the-euro-ku/)
Basically it is my homage to the traditional Japanese Haiku. I’ve always loved its simple structure, its short verses and the way that Haiku poets used the power of synthesis to express a thought intimately linked with nature, or with daily life and turn it into a meditation.
Of course the «Euro-Ku» does no such thing. On the contrary, it seeks simple words, easily understood verses and the language of the common man/woman. It still has only three verses, but there is no need to count syllables, the verses can be as long as they need to be to allow the content message to be developed. Rhyming is optional. One thing that the Euro-Ku must have is an accompanying original photograph that also, in its own unique way, illuminates the message that the verses transmits.
The reason why I’ve called it «Euro-Ku» is because it is written from the philosophical perspective of a European and not with the mind of an Oriental. There are vasts differences. That is why, even though I loved the Haiku, I knew that I could not do it justice writing from the perspective of how I think as a European. The sister form is the Ameri-Ku, of course, the same rules apply but the perspective might differ quite a bit in new and exciting ways.
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For those who walk this earth without ever knowing, that you reap what you have sown …
To those that have minds that hate and dream of destruction, eternity’s one unknown…
You’ve traded embraces for bullets and kisses for pain, and smiles for the bitterest of tears, and very soon, you’ll get what you fear…
C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera
08 MAR 2022
Valencia, Spain
Of course this Euro-Ku was inspired by the song «Revolution«by The Beatles…
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I walk the streets, I watch the tele, I listen to the voices of those who teach and preach, all that they know, all that they’ve learned, so bold, so brave, so sure as they now spread their truth, implacable, of all things of this world,
and science is their unquestionable religion, the scientists their priests, their evolution and their strange beliefs, in black holes and dark matter, is what they’re here to teach,
but me, I never learned, I never paid attention in classrooms full of nerds, I still believe in God and mysteries, in love, in faith and peace, I still believe in wonders and I definitely still seek the guiding light, the wisdom, the help from God we need.
C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 22 May 2023, Valencia, España
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This poem is a Euro-Ku. Derived, naturally from the Japanese poem (Haiku) but I’ve modified it to fit our western thought, culture and spirituality. I do admire tremendously the spirituality and the culture of the East, but I was born in the West and I wasn’t put in the West to live as an Easterner. Our experiences are not the same therefore our way of expressing emotions, feelings, well, life, is different. So I came up on the 2nd of February 2022 with the “Euro-Ku.”
The Euro-Ku follows the pattern of the Haiku only in that it is formed with three verses. However, the verses do not have a syllable limitation, they can be as long as you want to make them, but they must flow, seamlessly and coherently into each other. Thoughts cannot go floating out into the wind. And, most importantly, it must be accompanied by an original, unedited illustration, property of the author. It can be a photograph, a drawing, a painting, digital art or anything else that illustrates and relates to the meaning and intention of the poem.
(Photograph is “Cross of May” by Francisco Bravo Cabrera/All Rights Reserved)
This kiss of Judas in inmate’s clothes, this “look” that scares away the sparrows,
these waiting days that spiral to the bottom of a hole have reached the marrow,
and I’ve have carved in bone your portrait, oil on canvas, rust on gold, owls and seagulls to behold…
C.2022, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, 06 MAR 2022, Valencia, España
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As an artist, I have always been engaged in «the search», and it usually leads me to the place I want to be and to the things I want to discover. I have always said that…to me…all art is poetry, therefore I am a poet, a craftsman that constructs with feelings, emotions, rhymes, rhythms, lines, colours and human interactions.
The Euro-Ku is the result of one of those searches…or should I say the incessant search…and I’ve embraced its capacity to express, clearly and coherently, in everyday speech and form, some not so clear, precise or coherent ideas. It is like arranging abstract thoughts into figurative images, well defined and easily interpreted.
See the original article explaining this poetic form: https://paintinginvalencia.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/my-new-poetic-invention-the-euro-ku/
I hope you enjoy it.
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