AUDAZ REVISTA
Poesía
10 short Spanish poems you can read in a minute, from beginner to advanced.
01 / 09
Poesía... eres tú
Bécquer's Rima XXI is 4 lines long, and a good first poem.
Poetry... is you. Level A1 to A2.
02 / 09
Por un beso
For one look, a world; for one smile, a heaven.
Then Bécquer runs out of prices: what would I give you for a kiss?
03 / 09
Una rosa blanca
José Martí of Cuba grows a white rose for the true friend.
And for the cruel one, he grows the white rose too. Level A2.
04 / 09
Guantanamera
Verses from Martí's Versos sencillos (1891) were set to music in Cuba's best-known patriotic song.
Yo soy un hombre sincero: I am an honest man.
05 / 09
Se hace camino al andar
Antonio Machado: walker, there is no path.
You make the path by walking. Level B1.
06 / 09
Golondrinas
Bécquer's Rima LIII: the dark swallows will return to your balcony.
But the ones that learned our names will not. Level B1.
07 / 09
Eran de acero
In Alfonsina Storni's Peso ancestral, a man says the men of his family never cried.
Then a single tear falls, and she feels centuries of pain in it. Level B1.
08 / 09
Hombres necios
Sor Juana, a nun in colonial Mexico, opens: foolish men, who accuse women without reason.
Just 4 lines, and harder than most long poems. Level B2.
09 / 09
Estamos en paz
Amado Nervo ends: Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we are at peace!
Rubén Darío's Lo fatal closes the list at B2.
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