Poems written by M. Tomás Awada
Poemas escritos por M. Tomás Awada

Poems | Poemas

Entangled

We live within webs, that we ourselves create, yet they entangle us so much as if others had created them, and we grow flustered and we stumble. But what a sweet web, this web of being alive, of feeling so

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Syncopation

You barely have time to get used to the syncopations in this thing we call life. You think you mastered the rhythm and that you know what comes next, but all of a sudden, this majestic score, authorless, as is,

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Síncopa

No te da tiempo acostumbrarte a los cambios en el ritmo (a la síncopa) en esto que nosotros llamamos vida. Piensas que ya dominas el ritmo y que sabes lo que viene después pero, de repente, esta majestuosa pieza, sin

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Future and present

I always thought, and took it for granted, that wanting to be in the future was the antithesis of being in the present, that it was a form of escapism, a cousin of reliving the past a thousand times in

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Futuro y presente

Siempre pensé y lo daba por cierto que querer estar en el futuro era antítesis de estar en el presente, que era una forma de escapismo, primo-hermano de revivir el pasado mil veces en la cabeza, como si fuese la

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Fade away

Fade away, let time do its thing to both of us, I wish I were writing a different tale; I wish I could be sending you another poem, some more cookies, but I don’t like this part of the game

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Desvanécete

Desvanécete, deja que el tiempo haga lo suyo con ambos, desearía estar escribiendo una historia diferente; desearía poder enviarte otro poema, otra caja de galletas, pero no me gusta esta parte del juego donde el interés es tan unilateral, donde

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The boat

The boat, left to the sea, by the insidiousness of years or by the strikes of countless storms, has laid down on its side, as if floating were a memory from another era. Does its owner know it has resigned

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El barco

El barco, dejado al mar, por la insidia de los años o por golpes de tormentas, se ha acostado de lado, que eso de flotar le parece un recuerdo de otra época, ¿será que su dueño sabe que ha resignado

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