Collection of Aída Elena Párraga's Poetry

 

Women 

I have seen a woman born of water

with the womb loaded with promises,

with the world frolicking on her back.

I have seen her eyes that imagine

a fruit falling from her body

rolling on pathways and roads,

growing with roots entrenched in her chest.

I felt on my skin the smile and the omen,

the sweet tear in the explosion of the universe,

the hopes of the wings that hatch

learning to fly in her dreams.

I've seen a woman

illuminating the world with her womb

the only light that guides her

the only grip in her present...

Strange is to make earth happiness

and from a satellite love one's crescent.

I have seen a woman born of water

with the world widening her navel,

like sweet pomegranate that ripens,

preparing their meat for sacrifice.

Metamorphosis

There are days when I wake up
converted into water:
Completely wet,
bottomless
inhabited by lights,
touching everything.
Days when I feel like the ocean
dancing to the rhythm of the universe,
making me swirl,
raising and lowering my tides...
Then I crave your hands,
infinite blue bowls,
as the only container
able to contain me...

Aida Elena Parraga, was born in San Salvador, El Salvador on August 7th 1966. She is an artist, writer, and poet. In 1995  her artistic talents won her first place in the Central American Literature Essay Competition for young women, convened by UNESCO. She spent many years teaching in China, in the 90s and later in the decade went back to her hometown in El Salvador where she currently still resides in.

Poetry originally written in Spanish, translated by me. =)