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Meira Delmar

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THE SPLENDOR

I never knew its name

It could
have been love, a bit
of happiness, or simp-
ly nothing.

But it lighted up
the day in such a way
that its glow
endures.

It endures.
And it burns.

EL RESPLANDOR

Nunca supe su nombre

Pudo
ser el amor, un poco
de alegría, o simple-
mente nada.

Pero encendió
de tal manera el día,
que todavía
dura su lumbre.

Dura.
Y quema.

Meira Delmar

(Colombia, 1922 - 2009)

Meira Delmar is the pseudonym that the fifteen year old Olga Chams Eljach used to conceal her real name when she published her first, beautiful poems, establishing herself immediately as one of the most sensitive of Latin American poets. She has published seven books of poetry – the first, Alba de olvido, when she was twenty; several anthologies have been made of her work, and in 2003 her compl...

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THE SPLENDOR

I never knew its name

It could
have been love, a bit
of happiness, or simp-
ly nothing.

But it lighted up
the day in such a way
that its glow
endures.

It endures.
And it burns.

THE SPLENDOR

I never knew its name

It could
have been love, a bit
of happiness, or simp-
ly nothing.

But it lighted up
the day in such a way
that its glow
endures.

It endures.
And it burns.