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Showing posts with label Poetry in Spanish. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2014

NOPALERA



Nopalera le dicen.

Nopalera por India.

Nopalera por fuerte y filosa. 

El nopal existe en su frente, y cuando tus palabras intentan tumbarla recuerda que ella existe porque resiste.

El nopal sigue con retoños a través de los siglos

...y tu rechazas su belleza sencilla. 

Con su resplandor te dice a ti y al mundo: nopalera yo soy por mi país de origen, y también en mi país natal.

Nopalera yo soy.


*This poem was inspired by my great grandmother Maria, a woman who spoke Nahuatl or “Mexicano” before learning Spanish and who taught my mom that indigenous is beautiful, no matter what anyone says. Generations later, in different times and in a different country, the indigenous blood in my veins remains hers, it remains nopalera.