11th SEPTEMBER

Twin figures are injured by lightning;
their graceful bodies to the slaughter go
from the accurate blow and unpredictable
that sever brutally from its stem the rose.

More will not be another May or September
for the mirrors of those fierce dawnings
of suns upon steels and glazed curtains
that promoted the glance of sidelong glimpses.

To the city boasting of your possession,
that is world reference for human mazes,
you were the north and needle to the bustle,

giving the scale, counting among the rare
taller buildings till the disgraceful cutting
that in your harvest indistinctly mowed.

 albertotrocóniz / 11

TWIN TOWERS Poem

Who will see you, oh mirrors of the lights
on your skins reflecting the suns coming,
shading the color of twin by-passing hours
under the blue of the fast changing days.

Twin sister towers and peers in disgrace,
how are there flying indifferent cloudscapes
with the memory of loved and caresses
that for no more their action is to be.

Today you sink when wounded on the flanks,
torn by the claws of the unexpected beast
that opened the gaps in graceful bodies,
and to the bottoms vertical you go.

Dark sea of asphalt is down to welcome you
to the rough waves of dust and dark smoke
that swallows there the vessels with the lives
that held the thought to be at home that night.

albertotrocóniz /01
“TORRES GEMELAS” is the original title in Spanish that can be seen at the bottom link
(This is the author´s translation of it, an as I am not a native English speaker, I am happy to receive suggestions for grammar corrections that you can send to my mail. Thanks.)

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http://albertotroconiz.blogspot.com/2011/09/torres-gemelas-y-permutaciones.html