Dominican poet Franklin Gómez has just published On Love and Resilience: Poems for Survival, a volume that uses metaphorical language to sing the praises of love from a classical perspective.
Fraklin Gómez is a young poet who becomes acquainted with this series of verses that contain heavily assimilated influences from previous literary movements. With them he forms his own voice, which is rooted and secure.
Published in the United States, the book is read continuously, without thematic subdivisions, and raises elements related to his affective feelings, love, daily life and personal experiences.
Below we reproduce one of his texts.
I try to think of the inevitable
to anticipate predicted surprises,
and make infinite suffering smaller
Of things that will one day disappear forever.
Leave me a bundle of meat
with dry eyes and withered hands,
Search the air for forbidden bliss
of loves that were and will be no more.
I invent reasons to console myself
in front of an empty chair
to a silent phone and melancholy
that lives in the shadow of solitude.
And I tell myself that everything ends
that the end of life is the most natural
that the memory numbs the wound a little
and helps the soul not to cry too much.
Franklin Gomez