OTHERPUBLICATIONS
Selection of poems published in different magazines and literary journals.
I am grateful to the editors who have helped share these works with a wider audience. As the poet Maya Angelou once said: "There is no greater agony than carrying an untold story within you."
I hope these poems resonate and provide a lyrical display of the stories I have wanted to express and share through poetry.
MARIO MEDINA
Published in: ANTHOLOGY, (Overseas Press India Pvt. Ltd., 2019).
HOLDING PATTERN
Dawn is an oboe symphony
(The vases talk to each other)
Abandonment of soft whispers
Woods slightly creaking sounds
The at sign of the verse writes the initial of rudeness
A verse like a Bishop or a trigger
(Pointing to my insides)
1
LAST SUPPER
It is believed that a sentenced to death
deserves a calorie blessing
Last supper of eight hundred aprils:
Blue hubbub faded down the tunnel
In a saddlebag on their shoulders / they carry their
sentence
The napkin is dismissed in a contracted grimace
The bars of a fork on the roundness of a plate
are the silent cries of a prison
On the menu / the innocent have the option
to digest finitude on an empty stomach
or an olive / as a final point
2
Published in: ANTHOLOGY, (Overseas Press India Pvt. Ltd., 2019).
OUTSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY
It's easter
but the marine leviathans
rest suspended
on the bottom of the high tide.
The dark reef yawns;
his breath rises and opens a circle
on the foreheads of dreamers.
It's still morning.
In the head of every human dreamer
it's always Sunday
and he sees himself with his sunglasses
lying on the sand.
Although when dreaming
the night drowns in black
the reflections of the glass.
3
Published in: POETIC ANTHOLOGY, (Quito-Ecuador, 2022).
INSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY
The doorbell is heard
of broken dishes.
Near sunset of voices together.
The vast crockery testifies to the wait:
laughing and crying from a cup
with fixed volume.
Porcelain demands rudimentary silence.
4
Published in: POETIC ANTHOLOGY, (Quito-Ecuador, 2022).