Lorena Medina Martínez (Mexico City), is an archaeologist who, in addition to her profession reads and writes poetry. Her poems and short stories have been published in Alaska Women Speak, Revista Raíces, and Revísta Anestesia among others. She was honored to have one of her poems displayed in downtown Ellensburg, Washington State as part of “The Walking Chapbook Pop-Up Poetry Gallery Tour” in 2024.
In the middle of symbolic geographies
standing like shapes of water
delusional ships on ancestral routes
sail on waters of sun and salt.
Invoking sea, touching the route
silk robes fluttering in the air
waters and lands reaching the map
of interweaving memories.
Impenetrable blue, intense waterlines
exchange of words and meanings,
colors and shapes
magnificent sea inspiring life
cultures bordering the land it enfolds.
Mare Nostrum, liquid continent kissing faiths
vibrant interludes of departures and returns
continuities coining fates
marking the trace to sail the sea.
Returning after centuries
eternal…
symbolic shores of existence
worlds traversing the blues
the Medi-terrae and its nuances.
This one life, -again- this time,
hundreds of years
to come back -to an encounter-
of souls and stones
housing memories of us.
Has been so long…
walking back through the silk
embracing the odyssey
reviving the wind that follows the past.
I feared that these years have consumed
the fortress, the cover, the house
the consummate love…
as a ghost, right in front our eyes.
Instead,
souls fund this place
silky steps approached the parsonage
eyes recognized the hearthstone…,
where life…, was once granted to dream.
Poetry in this post: © Lorena Medina Martínez
Published with the permission of Lorena Medina Martínez