Lost Objects
Lost objects.
Bring your tickets
choose between forgetting
or happiness.
Do not stop visiting us
if in this hour you feel
that the wait is like a stylet.
We never close,
decide for yourself,
life is what is to follow.
Bring your body
although your soul hurts,
we have a gift
of a song by Benedetti
and in the goodbyes
you will feel a lagoon
of new gazes.
This is an answering machine,
but do not doubt,
in this office you will find
that which a day had lost,
perhaps the voice of your memory,
the certainty of the unexpected,
the key to your existence.
(Translated by Alice Sun-Cua, Philippines)
We Learn the Beginning
We inhabit the offering,
where did the ray of shadow fall?
Forgetting has masks,
face to face with woods and mountains
to scorn the light of a time
where happiness inscribed our names.
Two gazes
meet each other across the distance.
The spirit of God dissolves the smoke
and we learn the beginning.
Thus arise the song of joy.
(Translated by Alice Sun-Cua, Philippines)
The Certainty of Joy
I understand here what we
call glory,
the right to love without
measure.
Albert Camus
I write words analyzing
the material of the sea
the sound of sand
freed from my feet.
The winter is ours now,
the consciousness of being alive,
the certainty of joy.
I remember the shape
of a bird in paradise:
it unfurls its wings
and creates a universe.
We are the drops of rain
that live in the clouds,
the light of saliva
and its clefts,
the language of the poem
where time is paused
in the heights of memory,
the right to love without measure.
(Translated by Alice Sun-Cua, Philippines)
Author’s Bionote:
*Pedro Enríquez (Granada, Spain, 1956). Spanish poet, fiction writer, and editor. Academician holding Chair "Z" of the Academy of Fine Letters of Granada (“Academia de Buenas Letras de Granada”) and Supernumerary Academician of the Hispanic American Academy of Fine Letters of Madrid (“Academia Hispanoamericana de Buenas Letras de Madrid”). He has published twenty-one books, and his poetry has been translated into numerous languages. He is Director and organizer of numerous cultural events, Cultural Advisor to the Andalusia Association for UNESCO (Spain), President of the Spanish Branch of the “Consejo Americano de Todas las Sangres” (Lima, Peru) and President of the "Granada13artes" Cultural Association. Honors & Awards: Grand International Prize (14th Puerto Rico International Book Fair, 2011), Dama de Baza International Poetry Award (2017), Prometeo Award (2019) & Concepción Arenal Recognition (2025), Dámaso Alonso Award (2021) by the Hispanic American Academy of Fine Letters of Madrid, Nelson Mandela International Award (2023) by Arte Ahora, Premio alla Carriera (Career Achievement Award) - “Cignus Aureus” International Literary Art Award, Verona, Italy (2024), Mahatma Gandhi International Award (2024) , Gold Medal of the City Council of La Zubia, Granada (2025), MIRCHI Global Excellence Award (India 2025) , Special Mention (“Menzione Speciale”) - “Gabriele Galloni” International Poetry Award, Montignoso, Italy (2026).
(Photo at the Federico García Lorca House-Museum in Valderrubio, Granada, Spain)