Ikkyu Sojun

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And death shall have no dominion

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

Papeles inesperados

Blues for Maggie

[...] nada es serio ni digno de que se tome en cuenta,
nos hicimos jugando todo el mal necesario

[...] no es una carta esto,

nos dimos esa miel de la noche, los bares,
el placer boca abajo [...]
cuando en el cielo raso tiembla la luz del alba

no te escribo, de pronto miro el cielo, esa nube que pasa
y tú quizás allá en tu malecón mirarás una nube
y eso es mi carta, algo que corre indescifrable y lluvia. [...]

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La mosca

Te tendré que matar de nuevo.
Te maté tantas veces, en Casablanca, en Lima,
en Cristianía,
en Montparnasse, en una estancia del partido de Lobos,
en el burdel, en la cocina, sobre un peine,
en la oficina, en esta almohada
te tendré que matar de nuevo,
yo, con mi única vida.

Poesía Clásica Japonesa