Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

FERNANDO RENDON
Poet and journalist Fernando Rendon was born in 1951 in
Medellin, Colombia. He is the founder and editor of Prometeo, an
international literary magazine published in several languages. Now
he is the Director of the Medellin International Poetry Festival, one
of the biggest festivals of WORD throughout the world. Also, the
head of the organization “Poetry in Art and Prometeo”, Fernando
Rendon conducts master classes, trainings and symposiums for
creative circles, young poets and children. He organized a Network
of Poetry Festivals of Latin America.
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With an impassible purpose we organize under a radiant
project of the ulterior world. We possess the keys of a new life in
construction. Anything may happen but it is forbidden to fear.
It is not what is yours, what is ours is a constant. Remember the
bisons. Only sick buffaloes stray from the herd. You are blinking,
eye. You are talking too much, mouth.
Only poetry can be felt. Therefore be wary of dogma. Be
wary of slang in bars. We shall talk only when it is necessary. It is
necessary to renew oneself, but not seen by everyone. Do not get
ahead of others, much or even a little. Be wary of the weakening
of the dream. Do not speak when you are alone. The more you
know and the less you know about all of this sweet matter, the
better. In an irrational scene we observe one another. We love and
understand this absurd pleasantness in which we converse without
fully understanding one another. In which the Medusa can petrify
us for a word we said, or for a word we did not say.
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