Aztecal IV

Of the book The Ardent Word

By Francisco Azuela

She did not die from cold nor rain,

she went away sadly left as she fell.

She was not the rose on the winds,

that of the great horizons,

nor the rose of Jericho

that returns to life on placing it in water.

She did not know about eternities.

It is possible that at some time

she might have had blue eyes when she smiled;

in an instant she made the final voyage

from which one does not return

and learned to weep;

it was something which appeared like a dream.

Translation by Professor Margarita Feliciano

(ANTARES House of Spanish Culture. Sponsored by The York University Bookstore-Department of Hispanic Studies, Glendon College, York University and The Enrichment Lectures and York University. Toronto. Canada.

Biography.

Francisco Azuela. Mexican poet and writer (1948). Dr. H. C. of the Honoris Causa Doctoral Cloister of Mexico. Solenzara International Poetry Grand Prize, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France 2013. Selected among the 20 finalists of the LAIA 2014. Annual International Literature Contest, Poemas: Ensueño, organized by the Culture department of the Latin American Intercultural Alliance, New York. He was invited to participate together with fifty poets from twelve countries in the 45th International Poetry Festival “Poet Smederevo’s Autumn”, which took place from October, 2014 in Smederevo, Serbia. Vincitori Assoluti XXXV Premio Mundiale di Poesía Nósside, Italy, 2020 and Ambassador in the World of the Nosside Prize, 2021. Honorary President of the Sydney International Poetry Festival, Australia 2022. Honorable Advisor of ASP (Poetry Garden) Digital magazine of Chinese Literature. Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2021 and 2022. International Judge of “Wen Aiyi Poetry Award” Award Selection “Most Beautiful Poem” and “Most Beautiful Poetry Collection” of Qixi Festival 2022-2023 in China. Second Merit Award ex aequo VOICES FROM THE WORLD International Prize for Literary Art “Il Canto di Dafne”, Italia 2022.