Poems Drowned In Time

By William L. Villegas Orozco

Poems Drowned in Time takes readers on a journey through different epochs, evoking a range of emotions including feelings, dreams, mysteries, and tears. The fluidity of sensibility in the writing aims to give value to words and bring human feelings to life. The book is a provocation and a challenge to the art of writing, presented in non-chronol

• Language: English
• Publisher: ibukku, LLC
• Release date: Mar 25, 2024
• ISBN: 9781685746742

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POEMS DROWNED

IN TIME

William L Villegas Orozco

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Index

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1

THE WORDS THAT THE WIND DRAGGING

Deploy I

Deploy II

Deploy III

Deploy IV

Deploy V

CHAPTER 2

THE INTERNAL STORM THAT SHATTERS THE SOUL

The War

I Wish

Elegy of a Fleeting Sigh

A Woman

The Turbulent and Biased

Skepticism

A Youthful Song

Anguish

CHAPTER 3

DROWNED CONTEMPLATIONS

Flowers of Absence

Compassion

An Ode for Gloria in My Shadows

Contemplating My Convulsions

Moments of Fever

Who Am I?

To Man

Even Astonishment Dies

The Lone Warrior

Monstrosities and Tyrants

Seeking to Contemplate Time

CHAPTER 4

GLIMMERS OF THE ENLIGHTENED

Thoreau, the Visionary

Haller, the Steppenwolf

Sometimes Rorty

The Poet

The Human Condition

Of justice, the cause

Paradox

To the Master, the Word

Absence

CHAPTER 5

RECLAIMING EXISTENCE

Lost Hallucinated Existence

Universal Wanderer

Chepita

The Mother

About My Schoolmates

The Party

Evolution of Human Thought

Wandering Nostalgia

CHAPTER 6

PASSIONS THAT IGNITE LOVE

Eternal Music

Enigmatic Andes

Enigma

Moonlight

A Kiss

Desolation

Gloria

CHAPTER 7

AN UNTAMED NATURAL FORCE

The Debacle of War

Orogeny in the Andes

Fascinating Coral Reefs

Disillusionment

The Marvelous Undulation of Light

CHAPTER 8

TECNOSCIENTIFIC LOGIC

Cyberspace Networks

The Metaverse Remains

The Future

Not Oblivion, Perhaps, Is What We Desire

In memory of my parents Gilma and Hernán.

PROLOGUE

The condition of the human being is special: it is embedded in the territory and its ecosystem and biome; its unfolding is significant as it acquires knowledge and life experiences, which impact not only the social environment but also the environment itself. In this sense, Poems Drowned in Time represents the struggles of life itself, without ignoring what is before life, what happens during life, and what happens as our corporeal existence declines.

Life is superior to death, absolutely. As Borges said, the mere fact of being is already a prodigy that no misfortune should exempt us from a kind of cosmic gratitude. Everything in the universe turns into cosmic dust, devoid of inherent life; but what remains is what you left alive, what you sowed, whether in the womb of a woman or in the soils scratched with rakes, plows, and hoes, in the oceans, in the firmament, that remains; or perhaps in the end, it also fades away like the breath of a gust that scatters the filaments of the dandelion flower growing in the fields, among the grasses of planet Earth.

Each of the poems has its own life; they probably break the schemes of metrics and philosophical depth, sometimes with technical but conceivable language, and other times with more common language. All the poems seek to delight in the void left by the individual gaze upon the world or the same collective thought that crystallizes into community, democracy, society. They are summations of individual experiences and beliefs, usually common.

Each poem is a splendid, profound, luminous, and thoughtful challenge, wrote William Ospina in Carlos Satizábal’s The Inclined Flame.

I have collected each poem, all unpublished, from my adolescence, through the maturity that life itself implies, to the silver age, to express all human warmth, crossroads of the soul, concerns, and pains of every human being. I seek a place in the universe, where the word, if possible, perpetuates, finds an echo; even if it is that of a drowning person, who surfaces to agonizingly take a breath of air to refuse to die, to allow others, their descendants, their memories, or their very reason, and