My favourite poet

Gabriela Mistral the winner of 1945's literature noble prize and also a famous poet is my famous poet.

She was born in the year 1889 and passed on in the year 1957.Gabriela's father himself was also a dilettante poet. Gabriela herself started writing poems after a romantic love with a railway employee who committed suicide.

She taught elementary and secondary school classes until her poems became famous.

Her first great collection of poems was 'Desolación' which means Despair.

Now, I want to share with you three of Gabriela's poems that I like the most:

Poem #1

Pine Forest

Let us go now into the forest.
Trees will pass by your face,
and I will stop and offer you to them,
but they cannot bend down.
The night watches over its creatures,
except for the pine trees that never change:
the old wounded springs that spring
blessed gum, eternal afternoons.
If they could, the trees would lift you
and carry you from valley to valley,
and you would pass from arm to arm,
a child running
from father to father.

Poem #2

The Sad Mother

Sleep, sleep, my beloved,
without worry, without fear,
although my soul does not sleep,
although I do not rest.

Sleep, sleep, and in the night
may your whispers be softer
than a leaf of grass,
or the silken fleece of lambs.

May my flesh slumber in you,
my worry, my trembling.
In you, may my eyes close
and my heart sleep.

Poem #3


To See Him Again

Never, never again?
Not on nights filled with quivering stars,
or during dawn's maiden brightness
or afternoons of sacrifice?

Or at the edge of a pale path
that encircles the farmlands,
or upon the rim of a trembling fountain,
whitened by a shimmering moon?

Or beneath the forest's
luxuriant, raveled tresses
where, calling his name,
I was overtaken by the night?
Not in the grotto that returns
the echo of my cry?

Oh no. To see him again --
it would not matter where --
in heaven's deadwater
or inside the boiling vortex,
under serene moons or in bloodless fright!

To be with him...
every springtime and winter,
united in one anguished knot
around his bloody neck!

References:

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/gabriela_mistral/biography
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pine-forest/
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sad-mother/
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-see-him-again/