4 poems from Venezuelan Poet Mariela Cordero

Mariela Cordero (1985), Venezuela, is a lawyer, poet, writer,translator and visual artist. She has won some literary awards:Third Prize of Poetry Alejandra Pizarnik Argentina (2014). First Prize at the Second Ibero-American Poetry Contest Euler Granda, Ecuador (2015). Second Prize of Poetry Concorso Letterario Internazionale Bilingüe Tracceperlameta Edizioni, Italy (2015) Micropoemas Prize in Spanish of the III contest TRANSPalabr @RTE 2015, Spain. First Place in International Poetry Contest  Hispanic Poets mention of literary quality, Spain 2016. Honorable Mention in the Guido Gozzano Literary Prize Italy (2018) Her poems have been published in various anthologies and literary magazines and have been translated into english, french, serbian, arabic, uzbek, russian and macedonian. She has published the poetry books The Body of doubt (2013) and The identical fire (2015)

 

Mariela Cordero (Chiuru nemazana mapfumbamwe nemakumi masere neshanu). Venezuela, igweta,  nyanduri, munyori, muturikiri uye anogadzira mufananidzo. Mukadzi uyu akahwina mikombe yokunyora: wechitatu we nhetembo Alejandra Pizarnik Argentina (2014). Wekutanga kumakwikwi echipiri e Ibero-American Poetry Contest Euler Granda, Ecuador (2015). Wechipiri wenhetembo Concorso Letterario Internazionale Bilingüe Tracceperlameta Edizioni, Italy (2015). Nhetembo diki mubaiyo wadzo muchiSpanish dzemakwikwi echitatu TRANSPalabr @RTE 2015 Spain. Wokutanga wenhetembo wepasi pose Hispanic Poets mention of literary quality, Spain 2016. Akayemurwa mumakwikwi Guido Gozzano Literary Prize Italy (2018). Mukadzi uyu akatsikisa nhetembo dzake mumagwaro akasiyana uye dzakaturikirwa muChirungu, French, Serbian, Arabic, Uzbek, Russian, uye Macedonian. Mukadzi uyu akatsikisa mabhuku maviri enhetembo Muviri wokusagutsikana(2013)  uye Moto wakafanana (2015)

The first.

I am the first

I'm at the beginning

Of time

In the middle of the gloom

In the particle

Of this sunset

And to the edge

Of the collapse.

I am all

And none.

Chokutanga

Ndini wokutanga

Ndiri pokutangira

Kwenguva

Ndiri pakati pekushushikana

Mukati mechiumbwa

Cheaya madokero

Uye ndichisvika kumhendero

Yokupunzika.

Ndiri zvese

Uye zvisipo

Name.

There is a name that I drink

Half solar alcohol, half secret water

There's a name that I scream

  Mixed in the bustle of the others

There is a name that I caress

Piece of forest

Warm and persistent

There is a name

River, sweet arrow and sweat.

A name

                         that devours

my name.

Zita

Pane zita iro randinomwa

Chidimbu chepakati chedoro rezuva, chidimbu chepakati chemvura yahwandiswa

Pane zita iro ndinozhambatata

Rakasanganidzwa mukushangazhike kwevamwe

Pane zita iro randinotsvanzvadzira

Chidimbu chesango

Chinodziya uye chinoramba chiripo

Pane iro zita

Rwizi, museve unotapira, dikita.

Zita

iro rinokambura

zita rangu.

Sometimes I am

water,

 sometimes I am

   thirst.

Sometimes I am

water,

 sometimes I am

   thirst.

Everything revolves, although

  there are moments

where the skin feels like a burden

 and tired eyes are closed

the days seem echoes

but

everything is moving impassively

and the time we exchanged

transforms us

  in water

transforms us

in thirst.

Dzimwe nguva ndiri

mvura,

Dzimwe nguva ndiri

nyota.

Dzimwe nguva ndiri

mvura,

Dzimwe nguva ndiri

nyota.

zvinhu zvose zvinotenderera, kunyangwe

pane dzimwe nguva

apo ganda rinonzwa kunge mutoro

uye maziso  aneta anovharwa

mazuva anova mawungira

asi

zvose zvirikufamba zvisina simba

uye nguva iyo takagoverana

Inotishandura

mumvura,

Inotishandura

munyota.

Fragile as

the absolute

fragile as

the absolute

            in this way

emerges

the caress

(Micropoems Prize in Spanish of the III contest TRANSPalabr @RTE 2015, Spain).

Kusasimba kunge

zvokupedzisira

kusasimba kunge

zvokupedzisira

mune imwe nzira

Zvinonyuka

Kubva mukutsvanzvadzira

(Nhetembo diki mubaiyo wadzo muchiSpanish dzemakwikwi echitatu TRANSPalabr @RTE 2015 Spain)