Top 20 short poems (by the best authors)

Although the genre is not as popular today as it once was, literary history has left us an astonishing legacy in the form of poetry. Many great historical figures have left a large number of works of art that convey great beauty to us.

In this article we are going to collect some of the best short pieces loaded with aesthetics. We present below the best short poems of the best authors.

The best short poems by the best authors

Short poems are little treasures of literary art, and then we are going to introduce the best ones. And we would like to do it through the words of the great American poet, historian and novelist Carl Sandburg, "poetry is an echo asking the shadow to dance."

Borrowing his words, let's make way for the best short poems by the best Spanish and Latin American authors, hoping that your echo finds harmony with the shadows of the proposed verses.

1. Each song (Federico García Lorca)

Every song. it is a haven. of love.

Each star, a haven. weather. A knot. weather.

And every sigh a haven. of the scream.

Federico Garcia Lorca He was a poet, playwright Y prose writerSpanish. He had great subtlety in his words and was the most influential poet in 20th century Spanish literature. Assigned to the call Generation of 27, a great skill was recognized in many arts.

2. Who shines (Alejandra Pizarnik)

When you look at me

my eyes are keys,

the wall has secrets,

my fear words, poems.

Only you make my memory

a fascinated traveler,

an incessant fire.

Alejandra Pizarnik It was a poet Y translatorArgentina. Born into a family of Russian immigrants, she studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. His poetry is always a deep inquiry.

3. The detour (Pablo Neruda)

If your foot strays again

will be cut off.

If your hand leads you to another path,

it will fall rotten.

If you take me away from your life

you will die even if you live.

You will still be dead or shadow,

walking the earth without me.

Pablo Neruda It was the pseudonym used by Ricardo Eliezer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Was a poet i diplomaticChilean very influential who came to be awarded as Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.

4. Here (Octavio Paz)

My steps on this street

Resonate

In another street

Where

I hear my steps

Pass on this street

Where

Only the fog is real.

Octavio Paz was a poet, essayist Y diplomaticMexican the last century. He is considered a reference and great influence for the writing of the 20th century, being considered one of the best Spanish-speaking poets of all time. He also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.

5. To a general (Julio Cortázar)

Dirty hands region of hairless brushes

of children upside down from toothbrushes.

Zone where the rat ennobles itself

and there are countless flags and they sing hymns

And someone turns you on, son of a bitch

a medal on the chest.

And you rot the same.

Julio Cortazar was a Writer, translator and intellectualArgentinian that he was nationalized French as a protest against the Argentine military regime. It is considered a short story teacher and the short story in general, and inspired new ways of making novels in the Hispanic world.

6. Peace (Alfonsina Storni)

Let's go to the trees... the dream.

It will be done in us by heavenly virtue.

We go towards the trees; the night.

We will be soft, mild sadness.

We go to the trees, the soul

Sleepy with wild perfume.

But be quiet, do not speak, be pious;

Don't wake up the sleeping birds.

Alfonsina Storni It was a poet Y writerArgentina of Swiss descent who belonged to the literary movement of modernism. His work is feminist, and treasured an originality that changed the meaning of the letters in Latin America. His works are sometimes romantic-erotic, with a focus on men, and other times very abstract and reflective in general.

7. With you (Luis Cernuda)

My land?

You are my land.

My people?

My people are you.

Exile and death

for me they are where

don't be you.

And my life?

Tell me "my life,

What is it, if it's not you?

Luis Cernuda he was a standout spanish poet who emigrated to Great Britain, the United States, and finally to Mexico in times of the Spanish Civil War. Hispoetry is intimate, and follows the innovative metric guidelines of the Generation of 27, of which he is a part, although his ideas are somewhat different from the group's tendency. He called his entire work Reality and Desire, expressing the dissociation between the world in which he lives and his passions.

8. The roller coaster (Nicanor Parra)

For half a century poetry was

the solemn fool's paradise.

Until I came,

and I settled in with my roller coaster.

Come up, if you like.

Of course I do not answer if they go down

Dropping blood from the mouth and nostrils.

Nicanor Parra was a poet Y scientificChilean. His work had a great influence on Spanish American literature. It is considered the creator of antipoetry, and is recognized as one of the best poets in the West. He received many awards and was proposed as Nobel Prize candidate on several occasions.

9. Eternal love (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)

The sun may cloud forever;

the sea may dry up in an instant;

the axis of the earth may break like a weak glass.

Everything will happen!

Death may cover me with the funereal crepe of him;

but the flame of your love can never go out in me.

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was a poet, journalist Y Spanish narrator specialized in romantic literature. His rhymes are much admired for their fitting relationship to nineteenth-century music, and stands as one of the great poets that Spain has given.

10. On clear nights (Gloria Fuertes)

On clear nights

I solve the problem of the loneliness of being.

I invite the moon and with my shadow we are three.

Gloria Fuertes It was a spanish poet belonging to the Generation of 50, literary movement of the first postwar generation, and to her poetry in particular she has been linked to the postism. In his work she always defended equality between women and men, in addition to pacifism and defense of the environment. She became very media and known in Spain in the 70s.

11. Sleepless (Gabriela Mistral)

As I am a queen and I was a beggar,

now I live in pure tremor that you leave me,

and I ask you, pale, every hour:

Are you still with me? Oh, don't go away! "

I would like to do the marches smiling

and trusting now that you have come;

but even in sleep I'm afraid

and I ask between dreams: "Have you not gone?"

Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a poet, diplomat Y Chilean pedagogue. She reflected deeply on the needs to improve education, and was an important figure in the reform of the Mexican educational system. Her work is highly relevant to Chilean and Latin American literature, and she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.

12. Harmony spellings (Antonio Machado)

Harmony spellings

who rehearses inexperienced hand.

Weariness.

Cacophony of the everlasting piano

that I used to listen to as a child

dreaming... I don't know with what

with something that did not arrive,

all that is already gone.

Antonio Machado was a spanish poet who integrated the call Generation of '98. His work passed from modernism to symbolist intimacy with romantic features. His poetry is characterized by its side humanist and gratitude in the contemplation of existence itself, and his work draws on the most ancient popular wisdom. He was very committed to the ideals of free teaching.

13. I love, you love... (Rubén Darío)

Loving, loving, loving, loving always, with everything

the being and with the earth and with the sky,

with the light of the sun and the dark of the mud:

love for all science and love for all desire.

And when the mountain of life

be hard and long and high and full of abysses,

love the immensity that is of love on

And burn in the fusion of our own breasts!

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento was known as Ruben Dario, and he was a Nicaraguan-born poet, journalist, and diplomat from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the greatest exponent of literary modernism in our language. He is known as the prince of Castilian letters and he was, most likely, the poet who most influenced twentieth-century Hispanic poetry.

14. I remember that I left (Nezahualcoyotl)

How should I go?

Will I leave nothing behind me on earth?

How should my heart act?

Do we come to live in vain,

to sprout on the earth?

Let's leave at least flowers.

Let's at least leave songs.

Nezahualcoyotl was a monarch of the city-state of Tetzcuco during the It was pre-Columbian in Mexico. He was known as the "philosopher king" and was one of the most important poets in the pre-Columbian world, although in addition to literature he dominated the sciences, the arts, music, engineering and architecture. The work of this pre-Columbian scholar is one of the most recognized of the pre-Columbian legacy in Mexico.

15. The Lover (Jorge Luis Borges)

Moons, ivories, instruments, roses,

lamps and Dürer's line,

the nine digits and the changing zero,

I must pretend that such things exist.

I must pretend that in the past they were

Persepolis and Rome and that an arena

subtle measured the fortunes of the battlement

that the centuries of iron undid.

I must fake the guns and the pyre

of the epic and the heavy seas

that gnaw from the earth the pillars.

I must pretend there are others. Is a lie.

Only you are. You my misfortune

and my happiness, inexhaustible and pure.

Jorge Luis Borges he was an Argentine writer and one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. His short stories, essays and poetic work are well known, and he was a renowned literary and film critic. Between his intellectual interests Philosophy, theology, mythology and mathematics stand out, which led him to reflect on time, infinity, labyrinths, reality and identity.

16. Syndrome (Mario Benedetti)

I still have almost all my teeth

almost all my hair and very little gray

I can make and undo love

climb a ladder two at a time

and run forty meters behind the bus

so I shouldn't feel old

but the serious problem is that before

I did not notice these details.

Mario Benedetti he was a Uruguayan poet, essayist and writer who belonged to the so-called Generation of 45. He emerged as one of the most relevant personalities in Spanish-language literature in the last half of the 20th century. His work is very extensive, and the dramatic, poetic and narrative genres in his work stand out.

17. Love (Salvador Novo)

Loving is this shy silence

close to you, without your knowing it,

and remember your voice when you leave

and feel the warmth of your greeting.

To love is to wait for you

as if you were part of the sunset,

neither before nor after, so that we are alone

between games and stories

on the dry land.

To love is to perceive, when you are absent,

your perfume in the air that I breathe,

and contemplate the star in which you walk away

When I close the door at night

Salvador Novo he was a Mexican poet, essayist, playwright, and historian **. His ability and his speed at the time of developing prose were combined with his great mischief, which made the critics describe him as having a acid and bleak humor. He published many books of poetry during his life.

18. To a rose (Luis de Góngora)

You were born yesterday, and you will die tomorrow.

For such a brief being, who gave you life?

Are you lucid to live so little?

And are you looking fresh to be nothing?

If your vain beauty deceived you,

well soon you will see it faded,

because in your beauty it is hidden

the chance to die early death.

When I cut off your sturdy hand

law of permitted agriculture,

rude breath will end your luck.

Don't go out, some tyrant awaits you;

delay your birth for your life,

that you anticipate your being for your death.

Luis de Gongora He was a poet and playwright who lived during what is considered the Spanish Golden Age. The literary current of him is known as culteranismo or gongorism, of which he is obviously the greatest exponent, and his style would inspire other artists. His poetry was very traditional at first, until he changed completely to use mythological allusions, cultism and difficult metaphors.

19. Your name (Jaime Sabines)

I try to write your name in the dark.

I try to write that I love you.

I try to say all this in the dark.

I don't want anyone to find out

nobody look at me at three in the morning

walking from one side of the room to the other,

crazy, full of you, in love.

Enlightened, blind, full of you, pouring you out.

I say your name with all the silence of the night,

my gagged heart shouts it.

I repeat your name, I say it again,

I say it tirelessly

and I'm sure there will be dawn.

TO Jaime Sabines he is known as one of the great poets that Mexico has produced in the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda was one of his greatest literary influences. Over time, the recognition of his contemporaries and readers grew, becoming widely recognized and loved, and he was highly acclaimed by critics and scholars.

20. The voice (Heberto Padilla)

It is not the guitar that makes you happy

or chase away fear at midnight.

It is not his round and meek staff

like an ox's eye.

It is not the hand that grazes or clings to the strings

looking for the sounds,

but the human voice when it sings

and propagates the dreams of man.

Heberto Padilla was a Cuban poet who was in the eye of the hurricane when he published "Out of the Game", a series of poems highly critical of Cuban politics by Fidel Castro. He was taken to prison and from there there was a first great break of Latin American intellectuals with the Cuban Revolution.