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Premium Member Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan


(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, psychological, world,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Hay Un Dia Feliz By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
       Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

      To come by a happy day

(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, childhood, family, father, feelings, music, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Coplas On Wine By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Coplas on Wine

( here, the famous AntiPoetic Chilean Poet Nicanor Parra, b. 1914, uses the more popular form of the « copla » genre that he contains in quatrains of 8 to 10 syllables with...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, celebration, passion, poetry, song, spanish, uplifting, wine,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My Children Have Beautiful Eyes- -
I have a child;
I have some children;
And though I didn't 
Didn't co create them;
Always be there when they cry;
My children have beautiful eyes;

I choose to honor;
You to should honor;
No, not the negative behavior;
Just continually LOVE...

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Categories: parra, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, children, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Viva La Cordillera De Los Andes By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Viva la Cordillera de los Andes by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

       Long Live! The Andes Mountain Range!

	I’m seized with a mad rage to yell
	long live the Andes...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, art, crazy, hilarious, irony, meaningful, poetry, satire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Let Us Together As One Adults On One Accord Train Up a Child In the Way They Should Go-
We adults must come through, united;
We the watchers of others children, must step up to the challenge;
For all we do;
we must do, choose
Everyone is every one
Your child we share
We need to care
Tho! I didn't co-create...

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Categories: parra, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th grade, 8th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poyecto De Tren Instantaneo Entre Santiago Y Puerto Montt By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Proyecto de tren instantaneo entre Santiago y Puerto Montt by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T Wignesan 

(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, allegory, extended metaphor, imagination, journey, meaningful, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
La Primera Cancion
a fresh pad of white
and a pen just new
so the first song i write
i pen down for you

so i fill up my page
and let the pen rip
as i draw on my smoke
and the whisky i...

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Categories: parra, lovesong, song,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Test By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan

			The Test by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

	What’s an antipoet:
a trader in urns and coffins?
a priest who does not believe in anything?
a general who entertains doubts about himself?
a vagabond who laughs at every thing
...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, imagery, imagination, poetry, poets, riddle, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Madrigal By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, crazy, creation, fantasy, hilarious, passion, poems, satire,
Form: Free verse
Nicanor Parra Sandoval Translation: Advice To Young Poets
Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under the bridge
for me to believe
there’s just one acceptable path.
In poetry everything’s permitted.

Originally published...

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Categories: parra, mentor, poems, poetry, poets, spanish, teacher, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Imaginary Man By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
The Imaginary Man by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

	The imaginary man
lived in an imaginary house
in the midst of imaginary trees
on the bank of an imaginary river

	From walls which are imaginary
hang ancient imaginary framed paintings
irreparable...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, crazy, humorous, imagination, inspirational, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are God's Children-The New Vision
Yes, we are the future,
We’re of a new age;
Yes, we are the new troopers;
New soldiers on the new page

We are God’s children
We are His vision
We are our parent’s new dreams
Let us awaken and be seen

We...

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Categories: parra, 11th grade, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme
As You Pastures Your Goat
I saw thee standing on the Parra grass
With all thine elegance and daintiness
Thy pulchritude is like an expensive glass
Oh! Thou art the image of my happiness.

On thy hands is rolling rope 
As an heirloom from...

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Categories: parra, allegory, beauty,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poetry Has Washed Its Hands Off Me By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan

Poetry has washed its hands off me by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

I don’t say I'm done with everything
I don’t feel deluded in this respect
     I would have liked continuing...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parra, creation, inspiration, introspection, poetry, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs