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RE: ADSactly Poetry - When the rain comes...

in #adsactly6 years ago

Blade runner. Thank you for your beautiful post. Greetings.I really liked your post, @nancybriti, because, besides sharing that attraction for rain, you manage to express in your pleasant words the emotional richness that rain awakens in us, as if it were the aromatic smell that makes the contact with the earth sprout. Although you are within the scope of the poem, I remember two stories that focused on me with their recreation of this phenomenon: "Lluvia" by Arturo Úslar Pietri and "Garúa" (beautiful Spanish word of America almost untranslatable) by Eduardo Galeano. And from the cinema I was left with a scene recorded in my affective and visual memory where rain is associated with melancholy and death (a meaning not commonly connected with it); it is the final scene of

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I know the two literary and cinematographic references you quote, and I totally agree with you, @josemalavem. Both texts are wonderful and poetic. I remember the first time I read Garúa, the word stayed ringing not only in my memory but also in my heart. There are people who are like Garúa: a soft and small drizzle. Thank you for always commenting, @josemalavem.