Julia de Burgoes

Julia de Burgos 1914-1953

Parece mar, el cielo
Donde me recostado a sonarte…
Si vieras mi mirada,
Como un ave, cazando horizonte y estrellas…
El universo es mío desde que tú te hiciste
Techo de mariposas para mi corazón.
Es tan azul el aire cuando mueves tus alas,
Que el vuelo nace eterno, en repetida ola cansancio.
No sé si en las olas o nube abrirme la ternura
Para rodarme al sueño donde duermes.
Es tan callado el viento,
Que he podido lograrte entre los ecos.
Soy toda claridad para estrecharte…
Te he visto con los ojos vivos como los ojos abiertos de los bosques,
Figurándome en risas y quebradas nadando hasta el océano.
T he sacado del tiempo….
¡Cómo te levantado en un lirio de luz!
Que floreció mi mano recordarte
¿Por qué me corre el mar?
Tú eres vivo universo contestándome…

Well, a few days ago, on the news they said there will be no teaching of cursive longhand. What can you do, that was surely coming with less and less people interested in writing longhand. The penmanship will suffer. I was brought up liking first Natalie Goldberg, “Writing down the Bones.” In this she uses an inexpensive Sheaffer and write as much as you like, get the writing going. I bought other books by her but met the books of Julia Cameron which also prefers the pen on paper. There are many good things about writing on Microsoft office fixes one spelling. Yet, to me as others I met on the way writings has been a thrill. It gives you the action one can write anywhere there is a pen, if one decides to write one’s story or poems they are so much better writing them much longer if one has pen them. The writing of one’s hand is something personal like art; yet, people are living too fast a pace to fully appreciate it. It doesn’t take much to learn it in elementary so why this finality to end it, so the teachers won’t complain for children to write neater. I guess cursive writing will go the path of calligraphy. Hopefully, this will inspire writing with more unique pens; seek them out as a folk art maybe on the net. This is a Stipula Vedo, Italian pen, my favorite with a bottle of Waterman ink