Greetings to all.
This is my first time participating in this community. And I do so by sharing my entry to the Contest to celebrate the second anniversary, and in tribute to the day of Love.
Answering to Option #1 Anniversary:
-Design a coffedelicious birthday bash. Tell us who you’d invite (celebrities, politicians… anyone you want) and what you discuss around the birthday table.
I don't usually invite many people to my birthday, I usually spend it with my family, which is not so numerous, in a simple celebration. So my birthday party would be very personal. And since this contest is mainly about using our imagination, my guests (women) are going to be from another time... another century.
We are in the month of love, so it will be three women poets, who have touched me by the way they lived their lives and by their beautiful poems.
Women of great character, and very passionate.
My guests would be:
Carilda Oliver Labra, Dulce Maria Loynaz and Violeta Parra, and I would love to hear them recite (or sing) their love poems.
But first... On my table I can't miss a delicious dessert, a coffee cake with ice cream that I'm sure my guests will love. And to accompany the conversation, a cup of my tasty Cuban coffee.
These beautiful women have something in common, they lived very intense lives, with a lot of passion, and were masters of their destiny.
Free women who were not tied to the conventions of society, although they lived in times when independent women were not well understood, which they knew to impose themselves.
About my guests:
Carilda Oliver, a woman who lived a life of passion according to her own principles, as she wanted it, with a lot of charisma. She loved a lot and wrote beautiful poems full of great eroticism.
Her way of being and writing scandalized some people, for me she was a daring person, who had the courage to do what many women wanted to have done and perhaps never dared.
I would love to hear her life stories, and listen to her recite:
"I go crazy, my love, I go crazy
when I go in your mouth, delayed;
and almost without wanting, almost for nothing
I touch you with the point of my breast.
I touch you with the tip of my breast
and with my abandoned solitude;
and perhaps without being enamored;
I go crazy, my love, I go crazy... "
I will adore Dulce Maria Loynaz's sensitivity and sweetness. Surely she would tell us with a melancholic voice, anecdotes about her many trips around the world, all the exotic places she visited, and all the personalities of Hispanic literature with whom she had the pleasure of sharing.
I imagine her as a somewhat shy woman, but with a great passion inside, which is perceived in all her poems, where we can feel the beauty and loneliness of her soul.
With her voice full of sweetness, she would recite part of her poem "Love is..."
"...To love the lovable, is not love:
Love is becoming a pillow
for the fatigue of each day;
becoming a living Sun
in the longing of the blind seed
which lost the course of the light,
imprisoned by the Earth,
evinced by the same Earth...
Love is disentangling tangles
of roads in the darkness:
Love is being a road and a ladder!
Love is this loving which pains us,
which bleeds deeply, deeply within us"
My other guest, Violeta Parra, a woman as master of her life as the others, who gave us one of the most beautiful songs that can be dedicated to love. A song about the simple things that life gives us every day and that many times we do not value. A song of gratitude, but it was also her farewell song.
Violeta was a woman who loved a lot. To her children, to the men who accompanied her, to her family, to her country... To life. A life that was not always easy, where she had great losses that were difficult to face.
So, in my ideal birthday get-together, listening to her would be truly inspiring. Always accompanied by her guitar, and giving us her wonderful message about the beauty of being alive.
"Thanks to life, which has given me so much
It has given me two eyes, and when I open them
I clearly distinguish black from white
And in the high sky, its starry depths,
And from the crowds, the man that I love.
Thanks to life, which has given me so much. It gave me an ear that, in all of its width
Records— night and day—crickets and canaries, hammers and turbines and bricks and storms, And the tender voice of my beloved…”
My party would be special, I would be happy to be accompanied by such extraordinary women, all gathered in the same space sharing their passions and their love stories. Delighting with their wit and unique talents where no one stands out above the other, but rather they complement each other in a magnificent trio of wonderful women. ❤️
I say goodbye wishing you enjoyed this evening with these great creators who have been an inspiration to many, whose poems continue to be the ideal accompaniment to many love quotes.
Many thanks to all of you who have given me a little piece of your time.
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